Overview

""The Delirious Museum"" is a remarkable, illuminating work, which presents an original view of the idea of the museum in the twenty-first century, re-imagining the possibilities for museums and their displays and re-examining the blurred boundaries between museums and the cities around them. On his quest for the Delirious Museum, Storrie takes a journey that begins in the Louvre and continues through Paris, London, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He encounters on his way the museum architecture of John Soane, Carlo Scarpa and Daniel Libeskind, the exhibitions of El Lissitsky and of Frederick Kiesler, and the work of artists as varied as Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Marcel Broodthaers, Sophie Calle and Mark Dion.

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'I am very enthusiastic about this book. It puts forward a very interesting view of the idea of the museum. It is fresh and original, and written with verve. - Mel Gooding The Delirious Museum brilliantly explores the idea of the museum as a place of disorder, a space for wandering and dreaming ... It is a wunderkammer of a book, an exploration of sites and scenes relating architecture to memory throughout the world.' - Charles Saumarez Smith, Director, National Gallery 'It's a game that moves as you play. Using a host of well chosen references, Calum Storrie puts cultural history in his pipe and smokes it. Enjoy...' - Gavin Turk'The Delirious Museum, brilliantly explores the idea of the museum as a place of disorder, a space for wandering and dreaming, from Baudelaire to the surrealists, from the situationists to the Centre Pompidou, from Carlo Scarpa to Sir John Soane. It is a wunderkammer of a book, an exploration of sites and scenes relating architecture to memory throughout the world.' Charles Saumarez Smith Director National Gallery, London 'I am very enthusiastic about this book. It puts forward a very interesting view of the idea of the museum. It is fresh and original, and written with verve.' Mel Gooding

'The delirious museum Storrie assembles in his imagination runs together the domain of objects caught in the museum net and that of objects which still float free.'- Peter Campbell London Review of Books '...warm, witty and very readable - theory wrapped up in a pleasurable romp from intriguing fact to bizarre location.'- Catherine Croft Building Design 'It is a wunderkammer of a book, an exploration of sites and scenes relating architecture to memory throughout the world.'- Charles Saumarez Smith Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts

Author Information

Calum Storrie is an architect, curator and exhibition designer, who has written extensively on museums.

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