Here’s a handy breakdown of how to design museums and what features they should include in order to effectively communicate their message. Emma Walshaw is the founder of First In …

The ceiling of the Central Hall consists of 162 panels, 108 of which depict plants considered significant to the history of the museum, to the British Empire or the museum's visitors and the remainder are highly stylised decorative botanical paintings.

2024年12月29日 · Explore the intricate Louvre Museum ceiling details, focusing on Cy Twombly's 'The Ceiling'. Learn about its construction, historical influences, and impact on visitor experience in this comprehensive guide.

2017年5月18日 · In honor of International Museum Day, we’ve selected 23 stand-out museums from our database, with each ArchDaily editor explaining what makes these buildings some of the best examples of...

2018年6月1日 · In each of the galleries, a unique scene is painted on the ceilings. Some including pieces of gold flakes and some that people may not comprehend just how somebody could be so talented and paint something so intricate. One ceiling is of Byzantine architecture, which was of the Byzantine Empire.

Many new museum designs were boasting soaring ceiling heights over expansive (and sometimes irregular) spaces. This would have seemed unusual to artists showing their works …

2019年10月21日 · With that idea in mind, McCormack set out to discover some of the most spectacular ceilings found inside buildings around the world—from a mosque in Iran to the soaring nave of a cathedral in...

It is a detail that most visitors miss in the rush to see the Natural History Museum's collections, but Hintze Hall's ceiling is a work of art. The soaring vault is a golden cover for a...

2019年3月8日 · The Vatican Museums are definitely such a place where no matter which way you look there seem to be beautiful geometric patterns or murals painted directly onto the ceiling.

One of the highlights of our October trip to Paris were two visits to the Louvre Museum. I was looking forward to seeing the Italian and Dutch painting galleries, and they certainly did not disappoint. However, what I found most striking where …