CHAPTER ONE, THE INTRODUCTION.
Written By: Celeste Moore
Space. It's important in any museum, doesn't matter which one you go to. Space will be the main factor, it’s something builders take in the count with. The Museum of Contemporary Art, or what fellow students and adults like to call Moca, is the type of museum with an interesting layout. It’s directed right in the heart of the university circle and if you attend Cleveland Institute of Art, it’s not a far walk for you. This museum was picked due to it’s the amount of detail and how each and every space is filled with each thought. It originally opened in 1968, now rolling around close to its 50th Annviserty for the museum. Even the building itself was thought out carefully, giving off an organic feeling as you walk around, going up to the fourth floor and back down. There's always something new there, new history learn about, and new artist that you may not know of until you visit the museum site. Each and every exhibition was thought for carefully, in The Manual of Museum Exhibitions, the author talks about the process behind deciding where to put each piece and how to organize the space in order to create an easy flow for the visitors. In this book, we’ll discuss the understanding of exhibition spaces and how they work, the thought process behind museums, and the overall aesthetic that draws people in. “The development phase in which the exhibition idea or concept is created, tested and refined. The principal outcome of this phase is a deep institutional understanding of what the exhibition is about and why the museum is doing it at this time, in this way and at this scale” (Lord 2). MOCA The Space focus on the space, the certain aesthetic that the museum focuses on. A museum’s job is to draw in its viewers, to keep them interested and to also take in their surroundings.
