Towards a counter-museum

Rory Hyde

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A museum with its walls physically dissolved, breaking down barriers between inside and outside. An elderly man browses museum displays.
The Museum as Liberty, by James Winata, dissolves the physical boundaries of the museum. / Photo: James Winata

Introduction

In the second half of 2025, Rory Hyde ran a design studio as part of the Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, with the aim of reimagining what a museum can be. The studio was titled ‘Counter-museum’, to encourage the students to challenge the traditional model of the museum and invite them to turn it inside out.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24199/LEZC1724

Citation

Hyde, R. (2026). Towards a counter-museum. PRISM, 2, 7–15. https://doi.org/10.24199/LEZC1724

Gallery

A futuristic museum with gallery spaces separated by a skateboard half-pipe, with skaters, spectators and museum visitors watching on. A futuristic museum with white-and-grey architecture sweeping away from the entrance. Large trees and manicured lawns make up the foreground. A person reads in a quiet landscaped space as filtered sun shines down.

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