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Article: 7 new trends in museum design: museums are rethinking the physical plant to carry out a new mission--to serve larger, more-diverse publics, while staying afloat financially. (Museum Design Trends).
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- Building Design & Construction
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- December 1, 2002
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Thirty-five years ago, when Arthur Rosenblatt was appointed vice director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, museums were simple to understand. "They were quiet places, lonely places," serving mostly the upper levels of society, says Rosenblatt, who spent 20 years at the Met.
All that's changed, he says. "Today, museums are busier and more exciting and attractive," says Rosenblatt, now a principal with RKK&G Museum and Cultural Facilities Consultants, in Manhattan. He pooh-poohs elitists who complain that museums are so crowded with the hoi polloi, they can't see the Fra Angelicos. "Museums are making art available to more and more people," he cheers.
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