How Los Angeles’ new Broad Museum has gone about making its storage area an accessible and exciting visitor attraction.
At nearly all museums, the treasures on public display are but a small fraction of the riches within. Gallery space being limited, priceless paintings and rare sculptures are consigned to basements or off-site storage much of the time.
But the soon-to-open Broad museum next to Walt Disney Concert Hall will offer visitors a peek behind the institutional curtain, a concept that is central to the new building's design. Past the elevator, over a stainless steel railing and through a steep stairwell, a patch of glass offers a peek into the museum's storage area, "the vault."
In an era when museum design can rival the importance of the collection itself, the ability to view the vault is considered a distinctive feature that will help set the Broad apart when it opens to the public next month... Keep reading on the Los Angeles Times
At nearly all museums, the treasures on public display are but a small fraction of the riches within. Gallery space being limited, priceless paintings and rare sculptures are consigned to basements or off-site storage much of the time.
But the soon-to-open Broad museum next to Walt Disney Concert Hall will offer visitors a peek behind the institutional curtain, a concept that is central to the new building's design. Past the elevator, over a stainless steel railing and through a steep stairwell, a patch of glass offers a peek into the museum's storage area, "the vault."
In an era when museum design can rival the importance of the collection itself, the ability to view the vault is considered a distinctive feature that will help set the Broad apart when it opens to the public next month... Keep reading on the Los Angeles Times