While most visitors to the city make a beeline to the Ottoman-era Topkapı Palace Museum or the Byzantine Hagia Sophia museum (both located a stone's throw from the iconic minarets of the Blue Mosque in Sultanahmet), those who visit Istanbul's more creative museums gain an insight into where the city is going, rather than where it has been.
There, in one of Europe's most creative museums, the MuCEM, you'll find a stunning show: Made in Algeria: Geneology of a Territory.
As such, each Polaroid Fotobar store will be a gallery of its own, with creative, museum-quality pieces on display all around.
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In this paper we report on the successes and challenges of a creative project involving museums, schools and interactive technologies.
PATERSON MUSEUM "Creative Impressions: Watercolor paintings by Rita Lingham".
Without new work the dancers' purpose shifted from a creative to a museum model.
As well as an IMAX and numerous creative activities, the museum also hosts seven floors of free interactive exhibitions – a guaranteed remedy for children's boredom.
Martha Henson (my co-producer at Wellcome Collection) and I met Alex Butterworth of Amblr at one of Frank Boyd's Crossover Labs, which brought together creative practitioners and museum curators for a week of intensive idea development.
Stuart D. Gerstein, director of wholesale and retail operations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, said the creative climate among museum stores had encouraged him to provide "an experience that is, hopefully, as interesting as the exhibition, that relates to the exhibition, and that helps complete the exhibition".
One space features the Sultan's elephant careering through the room, on a collision course with a vitrine of knights' armour, while another level shows the band Nirvana practising in a garage next to Steve Jobs' nascent workshop, alongside the Rain Room installation – all indicating the kind of creative mix the museum hopes to foster in its new building.
