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Australia: Macquarie Point Development Corporation attraction in the earthquake-damaged Red Zone. Here
(MPDC) of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, approached Eden Eden will explore stories of nature and culture and will
as the corporation is looking to regenerate an environ- include restoration of native ecology along the River
mentally-damaged piece of land (15 hectares) around Avon shoreline. There will be benefits for the commu-
the port area. MPDC contacted Eden as they were seek- nity and tourism with the aim of boosting visitors to the
ing a flagship/anchor for the mixed-use development. city again. The project is currently in the early stages of
concept development.
New Zealand: In Christchurch, Eden is working with a
local trust to develop plans for a social enterprise and

How much do architects care for the collections?
And how much do curators care for architecture?

We care.

The future museums project

Michael M. Stanic

Why both former temple museums
and futuristic museums might fail

before deciding to spend and waste money as well as
other resources for surrealistic, fantastic edifices, over-
MUSEUM AKTUELL, the established German museum loaded with digitalisations and, very often, totally use-
less virtual realities, thus losing the feeling for the real
magazine which appears 10 times a year since 22 years,
and urging moral questions we encounter today.
has started an innovating series on future museums.
As the term "future museums" may lead into misunder-
Dr. Michael M. Stanic, born in Toronto, Canada, was raised in
Feldkirch, Austria, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Munich, Germany.
standings (we are not intending to deal on the new type
He finished his studies of art history, history and archaeology
of museums which deal on questions of future), it must
at LMU Munich with a Ph. D. and added additional studies in
be emphasized that the main questions will be: Do have
heritage conservation in Venice and Dubrovnik. He was founder
museums a future at all? Why? How will the future of
museums look like? What makes the difference between
municipal culture office in Dachau, served docent, advisor and
past and future museum trends? Which present museum
curator in Austria, Croatia and Bavaria, EU observer in South
trends will not survive and why? How museums of the fu-
East Europe and is developing new museum concepts.
ture will look like? How will they be organised and work?
Do small and poor entities have a real chance to survive
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the latest technological revolution?
the issue shown below.
Various Ideas, views and thoughts concerning the future and CEO of a cultural centre in Munich and the head of the
of existing museums in general and the specific new fu-
ture museum as single planed building complexes will
the four articles of the series. We shall analyse the part-
Join be critically, philosophically and politically discussed in
ly unfortunate globalisation and economic problems as
Michael Stanic well as the dangerous splitting of our societies, trends in
medicine and the sciences, the new technological trends
on his journey and changes in the structure of societies. Why might all
the huge futuristic looking museums in Arabia, China and
to an partly in the US fail? European collections, except of some
social and political systems, which, shortly spoken, hardly
educated guess few, fairly large and modern examples, depend on other
spaces in which visitors and specialists move like ants.
how „allow“ the local governments to build oversized museum
the author tries to entertainingly analyse the possibili-
FUTURE MUSEUMS How will visitors react on such megalomania? Further on,
might influence both, the future of any museum or the
will look like. ties of how the global and local, multicultural societies
velopments, some remarkable proposals how to come up
In MUSEUM AKTUELL. one future museum. Besides closely analysing actual de-
with stunning, urban museum models can be read in the
following essays.
Do we really need oversized museums, most likely only
serving the fame of "star" architects and rich bodies?
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Do we really need futuristic spaces without discussing
what is being presented there? Intensive education and
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social healthiness are very essential to political stability
and democracy. Future museums must also be part of
this strategic philosophy to deepen education, cultural
knowledge and building up new elites in our countries
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