Mall museum
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A mall museum is a shopping mall integrated with a museum. It is a new development resulting from the 2007–2010 global recession, when museums took over large spaces within shopping malls, making beneficial use of the space and leveraging the foot traffic of the malls to bring more people into museums, exhibits and other educational venues. The trend has occurred in various countries including Iran, Turkey, Spain and the United States.
Locations
Middle East
Isfahan City Center is a newly opened shopping mall, the largest shopping mall in Iran, and the largest shopping mall in the world with a museum. Its museum has the valuables from seven thousands years ago in an area of 16,000 square meters and more than 15 different collections including stamps, bill, coin, and art collections. Its main purpose is to make the world aware of Iran's history.
Europe
For example, one of the newest museums to open is the new Rock and Roll Museum housed in the newly opened shopping complex called Arenas de Barcelona mall in Barcelona, Spain. The mall was opened in March 2011 in what originally was a historic bullring called Plaza de Toros las Arenas (the Sands Bullring). The original bullring, designed by Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, was converted into a mall and entertainment center because of the decline in the popularity of bullfighting. The Museum of Rock Music claims to have one of the largest collections of rock music memorabilia in Europe, including 500 pieces from the Barcelona Private Rock Music Museum Foundation, and features four main exhibit rooms, including one devoted to rock music of Spain, one dedicated to the Beatles and another to the Rolling Stones.
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