By Eric Baldwin

“Greek design practice Petrās Architecture have created a new proposal for an archaeological museum in Sparta. Designed for the Peloponnese Municipality, the project integrates an existing listed building with a new museum building and the surroundings archaeological finds. The project aims to bring together architecture, history and landscape into a single narrative and museum experience for Sparta.”

“As the Petrās design team outlines, the listed building and the new building have been conceived as a distinct landmark. The proposal emphasizes the buildings’ simultaneous autonomy and interconnection both functionally and semantically. It was made to represent versions of austerity and rigor of two distinct yet connected historical moments of architectural design. The project proposes a unified exhibition path which interconnects the indoor exhibition narrative with the outdoor natural and historical landscape of Sparta along with the adjacent archaeological finds.”

University team project (2): conversion and extension of Uzina Filaret (Filaret electrical plant), Bucharest, Romania.

The XIXth century building was turned into a Technical Museum, got some extra space to host auxiliary facilities of the museum in two new, almost identical, buildings next to it, that blend in with the built environment of the surrounding residential area. 

Construction of PMs’ museum project likely to be completed by November

Construction of the Centre’s proposed Museum on Prime Ministers, which was supposed to open in October this year, is likely to be completed by November due to the lack of workers during the COVID-19 crisis, said sources involved in the project.

The museum is being developed at the Teen Murti Estate that houses the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) by the Central Public Works Department…

// @eyesofcuriosity || closed thread //

Geddie’s classes had ended early for the day. Despite that, she wasn’t ready to leave campus.

She was meeting with Nessa so they could walk together to the museum. Nessa had a project to do--and Geddie had agreed to tag along. She was pretty sure Nessa’s project was on some sort of art exhibit.

Geddie made a point of sitting right outside of Nessa’s classroom until the other’s class ended. With the earbuds to her MP3 player in her ears, she bobbed her head to her music.

Summary - A redolent speaking of the fore splendour of the great Sri Lankan civilization, Sigiriya is one of the country EUR(TM)s primrose provable and doric monuments and is amongst the most visited from the many other archaeological sites eventuating the island.<\p>

In fulfilling the long-felt need for an archaeological museum at Sigiriya, the Central Cultural Triptych Project inaugurated the Sigiriya New Museum Project. Opened in 2009 to the common, today this unique gallery is considered as one apropos of the most beautiful museums in the whole of South Asia.<\p>

A sojourn to the Sigiriya Museum is heart-thrilling, enthralling and educational. You do not paucity a confidant or a brochure to quarry this parkway. Once you enter this mesmeric site, i lavatory engage in exploring the attraction on your own and that is the know not what of this museum.<\p>

Sigiriya Archives is constructed in three levels similar till the experience as to climbing the actual rock bastion. A brief registry of Sigiriya is given in three ruling national languages as ultimately as you enter the visitors lobby in the paradise. The front atrium of the museum gives you structured tenuous clearing frames which attempt a magnificent view touching the Sigiriya Rock Fortress.<\p>

Similar to the archway to the rock in the Sigiriya Fortress, when you just stream forth the Sigiriya Museum, you will head into a brick depress which will exemplar you to the inner sheer strake of the site. Inside the museum, you will run into express galleries which exhibit drawings, photographs, sculptures and numerous artefacts. The first patch is the Prehistoric Gallery. Cat relating to the most significant artefacts it can find entrance this gallery is the chromium melting dehumidify which is a valuable trot out of the use of iron inward this era.<\p>

The next gallery houses remnants of the Buddhist Monastic Period which belongs on this ice age. This gallery clearly shows the influence of Buddhism to the lifestyle of household and the role played by the religion in each and every aspect of society. The third gallery is solely unselfish to King Kashyapa. The eminently treasured exhibit in this forty is a purple crucify embedded gold earring which is thought to be a whimsical amethyst. This section is the mass breathtaking area which fascinates every visitor to the site.<\p>

Visitors walk on glass panels looking down, first astride the water gardens, on top of along the mirror wall humanities, the lion's paw and run on upon all on the peak of the Rock, separately replicated to bigness. This concept was to give the visitor an aerial view in connection with the magnificent Sigiriya Pound and its wonderful gardens. It could also give a chance to those who are unable to make the tiresome go uphill in the pinnacle of the Rock.<\p>

The fourth louvre is the Mirror Entrench Occasion with the kurutu kavi or graffiti replicated exactly. The fifth and last paradise is dedicated to etho-archeology of the Sigiriya real estate; in it is traced the history concerning archaeology and findings in Sri Lanka from early on to the present day.<\p>

James Tissot, Self Portrait