تقييم المباني التاريخية المحولة لمتاحف إطار منظومي للتقييم ما بعد الإشغال

Palaces and historical buildings have an extreme importance for Egypt and the whole world,

as it is considered an architectural legacy and a cultural civilizational inheritance that can’t be

neglected, particularly with the rise of these ideas calling for overhauling, maintaining and

refunctioning it within the physical entity of the city.

This highlights the importance of the idea that presented by this research, as the paper aims at

proposing a critic methodology that can be used and tracked when evaluating the efficiency of

museums, located in historical buildings. The research study’s objective can be achieved

through two main parts:

Which is concerned in the rise of historical buildings museums, its development and reasons

of surviving. It is also concerned with the conception of the historical building, its usage

conditions, conception of the Museum and fundamentals of its design theory, so as to perceive

the critical evaluation criteria.

Concerned in investigating the most important local and international examples of historical

buildings museums, identifying its allocate of conformation to achieve the museum objectives

requirements and how far it may enclose technical settings required for exhibition.

This paper concludes the formation of the critical framework, the pros and cons of using

historical buildings as museums and its implications on the exhibition efficiency and

worthiness of transformation and maintenance cost. The research also introduces the most

important restrictions that should be considered before and after converting the historical

buildings to museums.