THE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S AERONAUTICS GALLERY REDISPLAYED

摘要

Which is more difficult, designing a museum gallery from scratch or revising an already existing gallery by bringing it into line with modern museology and recent research? Many museum designers and curators would probably prefer the first option, because there are many pitfalls in renovating. It is difficult to choose among artifacts collected to reflect the ideology of the original exhibition makers and to compensate for those artifacts that are not there but, from today's point of view, should be. At the Science Museum, Senior Curator of the Air Transport Collection Andrew Nahum and the designers, the Robin Wade and Pat Read partnership, were confronted with the task of renovating the existing gallery. On the whole, they were highly successful.