SPACES Sept issue 2017

ARCHITECTURE
El
Museo del Prado en
Filipinas Travelling
Exhibition takes the
museum experience of one of the
most important national museums
of Spain into the public spaces of
the Philippines. More than a frame
for the museum’s art prints, it brings
to the country a spatial experience
of El Museo del Prado through an
implied formation of its arches and
vaults – walking through the series
of the travelling exhibit modules is an
interpretation of wandering through
the vaulted galleries of El Museo del
Prado. Moreover, as it provides shade
and visual interest through its sail-like
canopies positively reminiscent of
familiar umbrellas, it appeals to the
sensibilities of the Filipino people. It
is elegant yet approachable; fresh yet
familiar. It brings the institution closer
to the public.
The concept of this travelling exhibit
takes the basic elements of a museum
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