A future prediction on dynamics of the contemporary city museum: a city museum model proposal

Cities; are residential areas with political, social and psychological layers that bring them together, and thus, as a dwelling, different experiences have many situations over different ontological thresholds. Cities that serve both subjects and objects need "city descriptions - narratives " that explore, research, collect, protect, share and produce their ontological diversity. In this context, the museum works that emerged with the understanding of New Museology and the city museums produced with this understanding, aiming to keep the urban memories fresh and changing every day, to remind the forgotten values and and to revive the communication between the individuals and to create new exchanges, they are confronted as "institutionalized city explanations" which is aiming to increase the quality of life in the city and create new shares / encounters / production spaces. Concordantly, the background of the city museums as a corporate urban narrative constitutes the starting point of this thesis. Cities have their own characters. For this reason, the design of a modern urban museum model that can respond to the needs of each city and transform its fiction according to the characteristics of the city and the inhabitants of the city reveals the problem that the thesis is based on. The aim of the thesis is to provide a base which can help to make the basics of the city museum in a meaningful way with the evaluation of museum discussions in the last century. Within the scope of the thesis, it is argued that a contemporary urban museum model, which can represent all kinds of cultural and artistic values and can update itself, can be put forward together with the researches carried out in the context of museums and cities. In this sense, it is aimed to try a modern urban museum model which assimilates the concept of New Museology and does not ignore the conditions in which it is institutionally and spatially, and which reflects the understanding of the city museum together with the society. The city and society are two fundamental parts of a collective network that cannot be separated. In this thesis; the aim is to create a basis for representation of the city, society and the cultural facilities produced by the society and to construct the foundation of the city museum in the context of shaping the institutional existence of the museum independently with the instruments of the new museum understanding. Foucault and Deleuze's discussions over the last century, their perspectives, and their evaluations on places such as museums are thought to help and facilitate the reading of the social contexts of this century. In this sense, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari are used in the social and spatial analysis of the historical process of the perspective of the contemporary city museum which constitutes the framework of the thesis. The concepts of "discipline" and "control" society produced in the philosophy of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari are evaluated together with their spatial counterparts, order and hierarchy relations. While making the expansions of modern city museum, it is thought that concepts such as heterotopia, assemblage, conjunctive synthesis and rhizome will help to demolish the social and spatial contexts of urban museum formation processes. First of all, as an institutional structure, the development of contemporary museology and its analysis in the context of the modern city museum, then the spatial examples in the theoretical framework of the city museum over the literature to discuss and a model proposal is the method of this thesis. As a result of the determinations and the expression of the model, the model of the city museum is used as a kind of reading and evaluation method. From the examples of modern city museums in the implementation process, Antalya and Istanbul City Museums were selected as the two contemporary examples of the rizomatic multiplicities (assemblage) proposed in the modern urban museum model proposed in the thesis. In the analysis of the model with examples, three modes are discussed: "process, content and architectural space. The concept of museum evolving from the understanding of classical museum to the concept of contemporary museum, the emergence of breaking points, the relationship between the city and society is tried to be evaluated in the context of the modern city museum. As a result of the researches and investigations carried out within the method, by absorbing the concept of contemporary museology, it does not ignore the conditions in which it exists; The understanding of the city museum which is thinking and living together with its society and its reflections in practice are tried to be analyzed. As a result of the analyzes, although the current urban museum production has the aim of being theoretically independent representation and production vehicle; In practice, it has been observed that it is in danger of being produced by conventional museum establishment processes in classical museology approach while fulfilling these purposes. In this sense, institutional and spatial reinforcements are discussed together with the urban museum model; In the last decade, it is foreseen that the city museums, which can be used as a series of linear history narratives and serial series, may have a stand against them and that the city museum can realize its existing but unimaginable potential.