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Project • By Peter Pichler Architecture • Cultural Centres
Museum Depot
Peter Pichler Architecture designs the new Kulturgüterdepot (Cultural Heritage Depot) for South Tyrol, Italy as a response to the need for a centralized facility dedicated to protection, conservation, and enhanced public accessibility of the region’s cultural assets while challenging the pre-existing architectural language of local depots developed over the years. The Cultural Heritage Depot will not only conserve over one million objects, but also increase their accessibility to the public; from artworks belonging to the Unterberger and Eccel Kreuzer collections and the Museion, to the holdings of the provincial museums, as well as archaeological finds and photographic and film archives.
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News • News • 5 Nov 2021
MVRDV turns Boijmans Van Beuningen art storage into world's first depot museum
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which is currently undergoing renovations designed by Mecanoo, chose to transform their art depot into a visitable building. For MVRDV the key element is the interaction between the visitors and more than 151,000 works that are stored in the seven-storey building.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
The Museum Boijmans did not want the building to become a second museum, but a unique experience that reveals the world behind the storage and maintenance of 63,000 paintings, photographs, films, pre-industrial design objects, contemporary art installations, sculptures, as well as 88,000 prints and drawings.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
The architects of MVRDV aimed to create a building that wou... More