Writing
Calum Storrie has written extensively on museums for Journals including Art & Architecture, Blueprint, Building Design, Inventory, Museums, Museums Journal, and Museum Practice.
Calum Storrie's book The Delirious Museum: A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas was published by I. B. Tauris in 2006 and is distributed by Palgrave Macmillan in the United States. It was chosen as a ‘Core’ book by academic distributors Lindsay & Croft for 2006.
The Delirious Museum is widely available in quality bookshops and
on the Amazon website.
The Delirious Museum: A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas
The full text of the introduction, the table of contents, and related writings.
Table of Contents & Introduction
The Louvre; An Absence | The Endless Museum; A House of Dreams | Beneath the Museum, the Street | etc.
Table of Contents
All museums carry within them the seed of their own delirium...
Introduction
The Infraordinary Museum
This section of The Delirious Museum was omitted prior to publication.
Read it here
Missing Footnote
Missing footnote from The Delirious Museum, Chapter 6 (‘From Soane to Soane’), describing an itinerary that leads from St Pancras Old Churchyard to Lincoln's Inn Fields, St Pancras Old Churchyard, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Explore the itinerary here
Soundtrack
A notional soundtrack for the Delirious Museum.
See the list here, and listen via Spotify
Other Writing
On the Disfigurement of Signs
[This text was first published in the journal of the MA in Industrial Design (MAID) at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London in 2006.]
“He said: ‘Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.’” – Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.
On the street I see that abstraction is creeping back. In amongst all the posted information (street names, stickers, tags, insults) there are points at which no data is visible . . .
On the Disfigurement of Signs continues here . . .
Seeing
[From the catalogue ‘Kerry James Marshall: Along the Way’ edited by Deborah Smith and Sarah Martin, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2005.]
Deborah Smith posed the question:
How do we make sense of what we see?
Anecdotes from a possible list of responses . . .
The Cabinet of Dr Johnson
An essay written for the book accompanying the exhibition at Dr Johnson’s House ‘The House of Words’, curated by Tessa Peters and Janice West in 2009.
King of the Castle
An article for Museum Practice, Summer 2006.
It took 17 years for Carlo Scarpa to convert a castle in Verona into an art museum. The great Italian designer’s ideas about museums in historic buildings continue to be felt, says Calum Storrie.







