MUSEUMS ON THE MAP 1995

Museums on the map takes 652 new museums and museum extensions, completed between 1995 and 2012, as case studies, exploring the muse omania phenomenon from a statistical point of view. And the results yielded by the survey are certainly telling. The geographical ra tio, to begin with, is notable. Of the 652 new museums (understood as collecting institutions) created in the period, a whopping 315 were built in Europe despite its prolonged economic woes and pervading governmental cuts to cultural budgets. The US comes second i n the ra...[Llegir més]