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Drawing passion from the crowds Times Higher Education Supplement |
‘Not finding your way in a city can be tedious, but losing your way can be a revelation. So too in museums – how brave to buck the circulation system and find your own path of meaning’ |
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Exploring wanderlust Blueprint |
‘Besides the leaps in imagination that give intellectual form to The Delirious Museum, Storrie’s achievement is bringing all of the cultural references to the party. The reader is free to reacquaint themselves with a familiar crowd or find new associations. Like a well-designed show, Storrie’s book is inclusive and illuminating. His observations gleam with a rare authority.’ |
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In Paris London Review of Books |
‘Storrie is good on the relation between spaces and things exhibited: on Carlo Scarpa’s museum designs . . . and the intricate interlacing of objects and architecture in the Soane Museum . . .’ |
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Museums of the mind The Independent |
‘Has the relationship between art and the buildings in which it is shown broken down? [The Delirious Museum] argues the case, and says a radical reimagining of galleries is the only solution.’ |
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Museums Journal |
‘Storrie offers excellent value to the armchair traveller.’ |
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Museums and Society |
‘Importantly, Calum Storrie’s delirious museum allows for the museum to be a critical force for change. The Delirious Museum is thus a valuable contribution to museological and architectural studies. It will also be of value to those interested in the history of exhibition design. Befitting Storrie’s passion for his subject, the twelve chapters of the book are well researched, intriguing, and frequently entertaining. |
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Repository of the imagination |
‘The Delirious Museum may be a fantasy, but its one that gets to the heart of the nature of museums and their interaction with the city. It’s also warm, witty and very readable – theory wrapped up in a pleasurable romp from intriguing fact to bizarre location’ |
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Design Week |
’The street and the way we walk through cities are Storrie’s inspiration for both the book [The Delirious Museum] and his exhibition design. “I really like the idea of a journey through a city that is full of surprises, dead ends and diversions. This is what undermines the sense of a ‘closed narrative’ that many exhibitions aspire to, and enhances the visitor’s experience.”’ |
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The invisible designer Museum Practice |
‘Javier Pes talks to Calum Storrie about his work on exhibitions where only the subtlest of touches is needed and when knowing when not to design is as important as designing.’ |
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A case of transparent charm |
‘Storrie himself is refreshingly unpretentious about ”the hang”, an activity which some curators imbue with an almost shamanistic air of mystery…..He’s even an ideological cheerleader for the simple virtues of the glass box, a form of cultural storage that it has long been fashionable to despise.’ |
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Articles by Calum Storrie |
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King of the castle; Revisiting Verona’s Castelvecchio Museum Practice Damage report. ‘Culture Vultures’ Blueprint White-knuckle ride to nowhere Blueprint [future] City Art & Architecture Making space for museums Museums Journal From Soane to Soane Inventory Mute and Magnificent: Rossi’s Bonnefanten Museum Building Design |
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