Musée Imaginaire Part 2 was a group exhibition between 6th May - 14th June 1997 from the following artists;
Nicola Oxley Jeremy Wood Francesca Vilalta Leonora Robinson Adrian McWilliams Nicolas de Olivera
During 1996 the Museum of Installation relocated its premises to Deptford. The new site will housed the Museum's main offices, the archive and a range of project spaces. The Museum of Installation previewed its new site with a show called “Musée Imaginaire”.
The title originates with a seminal text by Andre Malraux, published in English as 'The Museum without Walls', which was instrumental in fuelling a critique of the museum as an institution. Other important contributors to the discussion have included artists, writers and curators such as Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Douglas Crimp and Jan Hoet among others. The founding of the Museum of Installation in 1990 has continued and updated this essential polemic.
The first exhibition at the new premises took place within the unfinished shell of the building, prior to full refurbishment. The exhibition features a series of in situ works by invited artists using the former shop building as a container for a series of proposals, interventions, archaeologies and readings of the "Museum”.