A Museum in Motion | SPECTACLE

At MOAPAA, SPECTACLE turns movement, memory and landscape into an evolving architecture for Indigenous art. The Museum of Aboriginal Peoples’ Art and Artifacts (MOAPAA), proposed for the Portage College campus in Lac La Biche, Alberta, brings together Indigenous art with spaces for learning, gathering and ceremony. Designed by SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism, the 1,630-square-metre museum is conceived as more than a container for objects, shifting between enclosure and landscape, permanence and change.At the heart of the scheme is the legacy of the Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. (PNIAI), whose seven members included Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, […]