Underground space and contemporary museum

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2019-47-3/197-203

Abstract

Recently, museum designers engaged in exploring dungeons, following archaeologists and diggers. Such interest in transformation of the underground space into a museum space has not yet been sufficiently analyzed, so the article considers a variety of examples from the modern practice of turning underground spaces into museums. In addition to sociocultural examples related to the special features of the urban space or the preservation of a unique landscape, I would like to draw special attention to the importance of archetypes associated with underground spaces when designing a modern museum exposition.

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