The document discusses the process of museum-making and the collaboration between architects and museum curators. It examines how priorities are defined for an exhibition scenario and how joint expertise can contribute to exhibition success. As an example, it analyzes the 1993 exhibition at the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum in Paris, including the institutional process, making the exhibition scenario, and translating concepts into architectural space. It also references plans for a 2009 exhibition and expansion. The document considers how architectural design can mediate between artifacts and visitors and how museum design must respond to artifacts and an conceptual program while serving visitors.

1. Museum-making: Behind and Beyond Architecture Jean-Gabriel Leturcq Museum expert PhD researcher - CEDEJ (Cairo)

2. Museum-making and Museology Exhibition-design Museum-design Museology Exhibition designers Architects Museum experts Curators Politics, Culture, Economics Institutional Management Scenario and organization of space

5. The example of Department of Islamic Arts, Musée du Louvre, Paris 1993: Current exhibition 2009: Planned exhibtion How to make a new museum with an old institution?

9. A convincing approach?!?

13. The new exhibition space 1993 exhibition: 1300 artifacts on 1 100 m² 2009: 5000 artifacts on 4 000 m² More space, more objects: is the exhibition better?

14. The Louvre Project Rudy Ricciotti (France) + Mario Bellini (Italy)

15. ‘ Iridescent Cloud’

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18. ‘ luminescent covering’

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20. The scenario: design as mediation Ground floor Underground floor

21. ‘ An art of the light’ Ground level exhibition

22. … Underground level exhibition