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The Museum is an essential component of the urban experience. It is a social construction that defines boundaries for human interaction and exchange and recalls a threshold that must be crossed in order to gain knowledge previously concealed. As a participatory medium, the museum provides a frame for human thought that encompasses a plurality of overlapping perspectives.  Art reinforces the inter-connectedness of the human experience allowing us to re-discover modes of awareness that can awaken our sensibilities to the tangible and intangible qualities of the built environment.  The continuity between the work of art as an autonomous object and the human condition which art is brought into existence is tied to the specificity of place - the context in which art is conceived (the studio), the space in which it is viewed (the gallery) and the larger context of the museum within the city in which it is located. 

 

By situating learning within a museum context, the museum-school has a profound educative function, focusing on the didactic role of the civic institution and how this specific building typology can act pedagogically to inform and transform human receptivity to art, architecture and the built environment. The museum-school partnership will act as a catalyst in engaging students, teachers, artists and the community with the learning environment. It is envisioned as a place of exchange and meaningful interaction; an educational resource for the community and a  creative nexus where individual paths can intersect and draw together a vast diversity of people, ideas and experiences.