Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Open air natural history museums acts as a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out of doors aiming to document earlier forms of life, ways of living, cultural habits and folk costumes. “Natural history Museums and cultural organizations have been recognized as a value for the vitality and character of cities which can be used as a tool for “urban regeneration”, that includes the challenge to achieve longterm, strategic reshaping of cities by using a powerful and unified technological system “spreadsheet based decision support system:” to plan for a future vision of the museum as an urban space that will implement effectively and creatively various measures, which may give a potential in best practice for future museum exhibition setting that can be used to increase museum visitors’ social interaction with the museum environment. Through shaping the museum as an attractive urban space through renovation of existing urban space, the major issues of sustainable museum urban regeneration thus contributing to the enhancement of people’s quality of life. Currently museums including natural history museums are looking forward to increase their visitors and revisited visitors and also looking forward to transform visitors to active participants rather than passive consumers by making collections more user friendly to the public and more technically and technologically displayed and presented, therefore interpretation devices become an important key in the process of the visitor’s participatory approach. The main aim of this thesis is to develop a methodological model for the assessment of design quality for open air natural history museums for desert areas in Egypt as a tool for designers to help them in designing, evaluating and rehabbing of museums exhibits. This thesis is divided into two main methods: The first method is the descriptive analytical method which is divided into five sections: open air museum, living history museum and eco museum; Museum exhibition design and interpretation techniques; protected areas; protected areas in Egypt; ‘history and current condition geo-tourism, geo-park and geo-site. The second method is the analytical empirical method which will carry on a case study approach of Wadi Hitan open air natural history museum throughout a qualitative research analyzing experts and practitionars questionnaires, site observation and Delphi method. This thesis output a main framework model for open air natural history museum exhibition design, space creation and urban regeneration processes that can be used as a tool for designers to help them in designing, evaluating and rehabbing of museums exhibits.

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