.The Museum as Installation
Since the building of the Guggenheim Museum in New York by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956, to the building of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao by Frank Gehry in 1991, passing through the Neue Staatsgalerie of Stutgart designed by James Stirling and the Pompidou Centre designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The museum of art has been in permanent evolution, stopping to be exclusively an exhibition designated building to become into an object of exhibition in itself and by extension competition to the art that it displays. This concepts of museum as object also becomes into a symbol f the wealthy societies that produce them and the same time reinforces the image of the museum as an elitist institution. The museum when becoming an object of exhibition on its own creates a barrier with the public, promoting the participation through the passive contemplation of the building and the art that it exhibits.