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陳蕙雅思教材 - 雅思閱讀精選 (Museums)瀏覽數:49次
Museums From Boston to LosAngeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are eitherplanning, building, or wrapping upwholesale expansion programs. These programsalready have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in thenot-too-distant future. In New York City alone,six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space andneighborhoods around them or are preparingto do so. The reasons for thisconfluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a considerationeverywhere -- space. Withcollections expanding, with the needs and functionsof museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity. Probably nowhere in thecountry is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which hasneeded additional space fordecades and which received its lastsignificant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museumhas become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections. Deaccessing -- or sellingoff -- works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to jugglegallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage. Despite the clear needfor additional gallery and storage space, however, "the museum has noplan, no plan to break out of itsenvelope in the next fifteen years,"according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president. 博物館 從波士頓到洛杉機，從紐約到芝加哥、到達拉斯，所有的博物館或者正在籌畫、建造或 者正在完成大規模的擴建計畫。 這些計畫或者已經根本性地改變了博物館門面與展廳的設 計，或者預期在不久的將來會這樣做。 單單在紐約市，六個主要機構或者已經向空中和周 圍擴展，或者正準備這樣做。大家一致行動的原因是複雜多樣的，但其中的一個因素是普遍 考慮的空間問題。 隨著收藏品的增多，也隨著博物館的需要和功能的變化，空間已經變成 了一項非常珍貴的商品。在我國，也許沒有任何其他地方比費城藝術博物館更符合這個事實。 這個博物館幾十年來一直需要額外的空間，十年前進行了最後一次重大的翻新。 由於空間 緊缺，該藝術博物館在考慮購買與受贈藝術品已越來越謹慎，有時甚至放棄增強藝術收藏的 機會。由於博物館的空間問題，將藝術品脫手或者說賣掉已經有了新的重要意義。 博物館 館長們被迫巧妙輪換利用陳列館的空間，輪流著把一些藝術傑作向公眾展出，而把另一些送 入存儲室中。雖然對額外的陳列室和存儲室空間需要很明顯，但據費城藝術博物館經理講：
"博物館還沒有在未來十五年打破這個束縛的計畫。"
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