Palace or Powerstation? Museums Today
Palace or Powerstation? Museums Today
ISAIAH BERLIN LECTURE
This lecture presents the text of the speech about art museums in England delivered by the author at the 2007 Isaiah Berlin Lecture held at the British Academy. It comments on the role of museums as palaces or powerstations. The lecture suggests that the shape and size of museum buildings are bound to reflect not only their purpose but also the cultural assumptions of the period in which they were created, or recreated. It describes the Louvre and the Fitzwilliam Museums.
Keywords: art museums, England, Louvre, Fitzwilliam Museum, Isaiah Berlin Lecture, British Academy
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