MUSEUMS BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNISM: MEMORIAL MUSEUMS LIKE JEWISH MUSEUM IN BERLIN AS A CASE STUDY | ||||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||||
| Article 9, Volume 42, No 5, September and October 2014, Page 1294-1316 PDF (957.68 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2014.115067 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Khaled Abdul-Aziz Osman; Baher Ismail Farahat | ||||
| MIU University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The main objectives of this paper are: To discover new facts related to the museums evolution throughout history till now, to verify the impact of technology on the museums, to analyze the process through which the evolution of museums took place, and to identify the relationship < br />between the main definition of a museum and the emerged museum buildings, in order to achieve the paper main objectives, data presented traces the history of museums, first by noting the etymology of the word museum and its derivatives, next by describing the private collecting conducted in ancient and medieval times, reviewing the development of modern public museums from the Renaissance to the present day, and finally keeping shedding the light on the role of technology on the modern development and transformation of museums, the functionalities of the traditional typologies and the evolution of new ones, the paper hypothesis to be tested is: The historical target of museums had been subjected to many modifications due to the technological, political and social modifications that have altered the general mission of the museum as the house of collections, the conclusion of the paper would be showing whether the actual mission of museums today is still taken into consideration within the new typologies as well as deriving the attained result after all the presented information to derive a general result proving the hypothesis stated, architecture is a clear reflection of the society, so it is subjected to dramatic changes, therefore it is not appropriate to design today in the manners, ideas, and believes of yesterday. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Mouseion and Museum; Form and Morphology; Memorial Museums | ||||
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