The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design.

Illustrations; Acknowledgements; About the contributors; Introduction: the future of museum and gallery design Suzanne MacLeod, Tricia Austin, Jonathan Hale and Oscar Ho Hing-Kay; PART I Purpose: social responsibility, cultural specificity and museum making; 1 An ethical future for museum and gallery design: design as a force for good in a diverse cultural sector Suzanne MacLeod; 2 Zen and the art of museum maintenance Oscar Ho Hing-Kay; 3 On the importance of 'And': museums and complexity Elaine Heumann Gurian; 4 The designer's role in museums that act as agents of change Tricia Austin; 5 Cities as exhibition spaces: illuminated infrastructure in the smart city Dave Colangelo; 6 Representations of Chinese civilisation: exhibiting Chinese art in Republican China Pedith Chan; 7 The museum and multivalences of place Laura Hourston Hanks; 8 A site for convergence and exchange: designing the twenty-first century university art museum Timothy J. McNeil; PART II Process: collaboration, experimentation and participation; 9 Examining process in museum exhibitions: a case for experimentation and prototyping Kathleen McLean; 10 Designing and programming in 'baggy' space: a case study of the Oriel Wrecsam People's Market project Sarah Featherstone and Jo Marsh; 11 Collective creativity in the art museum Mette Houlberg Rung; 12 Placing citizens at the heart of museum development: Derby Silk Mill - Museum of Making Tony Butler, Hannah Fox and Suzanne MacLeod; 13 New approaches to universal design at The Gateway Arch National Park Bill Haley and Oriel Wilson; 14 Experimental exhibition models: curating, designing and managing experiments Annette Loeseke; 15 From the 'field' to the 'wilderness': translation and creation in curating socially engaged arts Sipei Lu; 16 Unboxing history exhibitions: experience design in museum practice Clare Brown; 17 Untangling exhibition narratives: towards a bridging of design research and design practice Jona Piehl and David Francis; 18 Beyond the museum: a comparative study of narrative structures in films and museum design Tom Duncan; PART III Perception: embodiment, experience and narrative; 19 Yaji garden: art under the sky Tsong-Zung Chang and Shiming Gao; 20 Screening times: dioramas at the Shanghai Film Museum Linda Johnson; 21 Displaying and interpreting industrial pollution: a study of visitor comments on 'When the South Wind Blows' Hsu Huang and Chia-Li Chen; 22 Spatial meaning-making: exhibition design and embodied experience Maja Gro Gundersen and Christina Back; 23 The fear of popcorn: drawing inspiration from Hollywood for curating suspenseful exhibitions Ariane Karbe; 24 The Yellow Box and its rhetoric of display: exhibiting Chinese art in a museum Vivian Ting; 25 From body to body: architecture, movement and meaning in the museum Jonathan Hale and Christina Back; Top 20 principles for the future of museum and gallery design; Afterword Adrian Cheng; Index