Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Suzanne MacLeod -- 1. Rethinking museum architecture : towards a site-specific history of production and use / Suzanne MacLeod -- 2. Black box science in black box science centres / Richard Toon -- 3. Space and the machine : adaptive museums, pervasive technology and the new gallery environment / Ross Parry and Andrew Sawyer -- 4. Creative space / David Fleming -- 5. From cultural institution to cultural consumer experience : Manchester Art Gallery expansion project / Moira Stevenson -- 6. Spatial culture, way-finding and the educational message : the impact of layout on the spatial, social and educational experiences of visitors to museums and galleries / Sophia Psarra -- 7. The Grande Galerie de l'Evolution : an alternative cognitive experience / Fabienne Galangau-Querat -- 8. Producing a public for art : gallery space in the twenty-first century / Helen Rees Leahy -- 9. Towards a new museum architecture : narrative and representation / Lee H. Skolnick -- 10. Building on Victorian ideas / Lawrence Fitzgerald -- 11. Representing enlightenment space / Beth Lord -- 12. The studio in the gallery? / Jon Wood -- 13. When worlds collide : the contemporary museum as art gallery / Christopher R. Marshall -- 14. Constructing and communicating equality : the social agency of museum space / Richard Sandell -- 15. Threshold fear / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- 16. From cathedral of culture to anchor attractor / Peter Higgins -- 17. The vital museum / Stephen Greenberg.