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Nobel-laureate novelist and author of The Museum of Innocence (2008), Orhan Pamuk, refers to museums as the place “where Time is converted into Space.” From baroque masterpieces to experimental freestanding structures, gilded palaces to disused warehouses, classical to contemporary, the international definition of the museum continues to evolve, now encompassing super-structures that challenge the limits of architectural and conceptual possibility, capturing the imagination while embodying and even altering the identity of their environs. Designed by luminary architects, these buildings transcend their function as repositories of artefacts.

They become works of art in their own right, renowned as much for their cost and design as for their collections, such as Daniel Libeskind’s Danish Jewish Museum (2004) in Copenhagen, the Ordos Museum (2011) by MAD Architects, located in the Gobi desert, and Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center (2012) in Azerbaijan. Today, museums face the challenge of balancing preservation with an increasing demand for accessibility, while competing with new modes of presentation – chiefly, the online exhibition and archive.

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