Keeping Culture: The Architecture of Storage

Keeping Culture: The Architecture of StorageMuseum and archival collections are often so vast that only a fraction can be shown at any one time. Behind the scenes are millions of stored objects that are rarely, if ever, presented to the public. As collections continue to grow, such warehousing practices become conspicuous and unsustainable, transforming storage from a technical concern to a pressing architectural challenge. In this context visible and visitable storage strategies have gained

In every case a desire to read and to negotiate sense is mobilized in pleasure and frustration

for public display

In her article entitled “Global Exhibition Histories and Their Visual Time: Shikō Munakata in Warsaw”

though a few come close…

through petitions and marches

“The future of landscape is still controlled by the complex past and the fog of the present

without terror and without violent and sometimes fatal reactions from the busybodies of America

the rupture of petroleum landscapes

diagnosed with autism at twenty-three

meditative

By 2115 this tree will long be gone and forgotten when the content of an unearthed time capsule reactivates its story

but also in the future