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MŪMUSEUM OF PERCEPTION / BASEL
MŪ — Art you enter.

Art you enter.

A museum for the body as much as the eye.

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01The insight

From seeing an image
to feeling a place.

We can see almost anything on a screen. The experiences that stay with us ask us to be there.

MŪ is conceived around three spatial works that unsettle reflection, light and gravity. Your position changes the work. The identity follows the same rule.

02The setting

Basel.
Along the Rhine.

A museum vision for the river’s edge: a precise concrete envelope, daylight galleries and dark chambers. Conceived as a place to slow down, between the city and the water.

Location vision / Basel, Switzerland
Architectural vision for MŪ on the Rhine in Basel
MŪ / A cultural destination at the water’s edge.
03The collection idea

Three encounters.
Impossible to mistake.

Each work begins with a familiar physical rule.
Each makes that rule feel different.

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Tide: a monumental mirror sheet curls through a concrete gallery
TIDE / Reflection, made spatial.

Tide

A mirror becomes a wave you can walk beneath. The room folds. Your reflection moves into a place your body cannot.

Visitors beneath Tide, reflected in the continuous mirror wave
Scale is measured by the visitor.
Aperture: a monumental luminous amber disc seen from the front
The same disc viewed edge-on becomes a thin line of light
II / APERTURE

A sun.
Then a line.

Walk around the disc.
Scale dissolves into an edge.

III
Counterweight: a basalt monolith held over a thin mirrored gap
COUNTERWEIGHT / A negotiation with gravity.

Counterweight

A dense stone body appears weightless. A mirrored recess conceals its support. What you know and what you see briefly disagree.

04The identity

Recognition through
a change of perspective.

The overline becomes a horizon. The circle becomes a viewpoint. Acid yellow signals an invitation to look again.

MŪMUSEUM OF PERCEPTION / BASEL
MŪ / BASELTide exhibition poster

Tide

ENTER THE REFLECTION.
MŪ / BASELAperture exhibition poster

Aperture

CHANGE YOUR POINT OF VIEW.
MŪ / BASELCounterweight exhibition poster

Counterweight

FEEL THE WEIGHT OF NOTHING.
MŪ

Museum identity and spatial vision by SAMUR-AI.

The work

Positioning · Naming · Visual identity · Spatial art direction · Exhibition system · Motion language

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