It is not enough to include the staff of the museum into museum planning;
reason: the staff does not have any experience in creating a new museum.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime-job for a museum employee. They will tell y lot
of things to the architect, but not everything is true or sufficient. Only
staff should be allowed to discuss in earnest, who has visited a lot of
other - newly built - museums, discussed thoroughly with the people (staff
and visitors there).
Otherwise, only the windows for the staff will be fitted best.
-I know that is (a little) provocative, but the unexperienced museum staff
(unexperienced in creating new museums or advising architects on it) is the
reason for so many museums which do not function properly ever after. Staff
should be schooled intensively before being let into the architect's room.
And vice versa: never trust the eloquent architect, before he hasn't
designed a properly functioning entrance hall for a museum.

Greetings,

Peter, the Rebernik
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