Art gallery ideas

A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Image 5 of 32 from gallery of The Art Space Gallery & Restaurant / ShapeUs studio. Photograph by Hiroyuki Oki

Louis Kahn - Yale Art Museum Interior. CONCRETE. TRIAGULAR CEILING. COFFERED CEILING. ROTHKO. FLOATING PARTITIONS. CLASSIC MODERNIST GALLERY MUSEUM

portuguese studio OTTOTTO has built prismatic pavilion in lisbon to house a collection of works by english photographer terry o'neill.

The Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds exhibit housed inside the NGV in Melbourne, Australia, is an exhibit that's like walking into a documentary and for brief moments you feel like you are inside Escher’s head.

Image 9 of 19 from gallery of How to Design Museum Interiors: Display Cases to Protect & Highlight the Art. Rijksmuseum. Image Courtesy of Goppion

Image 5 of 40 from gallery of Jackson Dinsdale Art Center / TACK architects. Photograph by Tom Kessler

The Yokote Masuda Manga Museum in Akita is a unique facility for the display and preservation of manga, boasting a collection of over 230,000 pieces of artwork.

Down East Magazine

BWArchitects designed an artist space that is a light-filled artist studio is conceived as a simple rectangular box which rests lightly on a 1.5 acre East Hampton site. Lifted off the ground by concrete piers, the building allows the natural contours of the land to continue below it. In some places, the siteʼs natural slope reveals the studioʼs cast-in-place concrete walls.

Xuzhou City Wall Museum / Continual Architecture

Inspired execution of your most inspired visions.

I happen to have a chain link fence that I have been displaying art on but if you don’t happen to have a fence and are looking for a way to display some art maybe outside for your neighbors t…

I adore custom framing but it can be quite expensive, which got me thinking about some alternatives. After all, necessity is the mother of invention, is it not?Turns out a lot of people have had this same thought and have created some lovely options to display artwork sans framing. Check them out! Above: This option from Deko employs wooden trouser hangers to display art. That’s it! And I love it. I found this elegant display idea on Freshome.