Gyorgy Peter (2013). Museum, The Learning House. Case Studies in Museum Theory. [Muzeum, a tanulo-haz. Muzeumelmeleti esettanulmanyok. Budapest: Fine Arts

Abstract

We all know that museums are not just for free time activities but for learning and studying as well. This role has become quite important in the last decades: the so called "museum boom", a huge museum transforming process has changed the original roles of cultural institutions. Museum pedagogy, lifelong learning became quite an important task that the museums had to complete. The visitors became curators: they are who determine museums nowadays. That is why museums needed changes concerning not only their programs and approaches but in their ways of designing exhibitions and in their architecture as well. So the countries started to establish new and extravagant museum buildings which were able to attract more and more visitors who wanted to learn in the museums.