Museums around the world were doing rather well before the pandemic. Visitor numbers have steadily grown over the last fifteen years. In 2018 almost 50 million people visited museums across Britain. Tate Modern, The Natural History Museum and The Victoria and Albert were in the top ten of the most popular museums worldwide according to You Gov. Reasons can be deduced: cheap air travel, free entry and selfies in front of masterpieces. A museum has become a cool place to hang out, give parties and even get married. Today many special exhibitions reflect contemporary culture. Alexander Mc Queen at the V and A and Manga at the British Museum have been sell outs.
Closed on Mondays: Behind the Scenes at The Museum is a personal story about the considerable achievements, the highs and lows, dramas and challenges of the author’s architectural practice Casson Mann. Diana Casson writes that it is “a collection of explorations of topics which I tripped over during my working life in museums as a designer.” She has put together a thought-provoking meander through how art should be displayed, framed viewed and labelled and along the way but she talks about facsimiles, cloakrooms and collectors – collecting is a result of unresolved potty training, declared Sigmund Freud.
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