BOUTIQUE MUSEUMS. PRIVATE ART SPACES AND PERSONAL VISIONS

In the past fifteen years, many contemporary art collectors have chosen to part ways with traditional museums to create their own private spaces for their works of art. These individuals are now creating their own boutique museums, which are run more like businesses and are completely independent because their founders financially sustain them. Boutique Museums is the first book to document this global phenomenon that is fast becoming a new institutional paradigm for the 21st Century. Boutique Museums presents over fifty of the most important private museums housing the best contemporary art collections from around the world. Liberated from the public institutional model of showing a roster of rotating content, these boutique museums focus on and reflect the independent artistic interests of their collectors. These collections often include some of the most important masterpieces and challenging art. They are also housed in spectacular spaces, many of them designed and erected for the sole purpose of showcasing their unique collections, creating an ideal backdrop and environment for the artworks.