Kyriafini, M; (2007) Narrative and exploration in small museums: The Wallace Collection and the Soane Museum. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).

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This paper sets out to study the effects of multiple visibility on the interface between the exhibition and the visitor in private collection museums. By multiple visibility, what is meant is the situation where the visitor perceives different spaces and objects simultaneously and in different ways. In this way, as the visitor moves in the museum, there is a constant flow of object from the background to the foreground and vice-versa. The case studies selected for this report are the Wallace Collection and the Soane Museum, both housed in the 18th century residences of the collectors, in central London. The analysis is done within the theoretical framework known as space syntax, and the respective methodology and analytical tools. It reveals that while in the Wallace Collection the structure of the space is based on choice of movement, in the Soane Museum it is the visual effects that play the prominent role in defining the visitors' experience. The former is a space for moving around, while the latter is one for looking around.

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