HoMu: THE WORLD'S SMALLEST MUSEUM

This is another one of the world’s smallest. We had the One-Sqm-House, the world’s smallest house. Now we have the world’s smallest museum: HoMu, which stands for Homeless Museum of Art. It’s certainly an unusual museum though - no exhibits, but plenty of ideas.

The World’s Smallest Museum
By DesignTAXI, 16 Jul 2012.

Director Noterdaeme [right] and Florence Coyote [a stuffed coyote] at the HoMu Booth in Chelsea, New York City.

New York-based artist Filip Noteradaeme created the ‘world’s smallest museum’, The Homeless Museum of Art (HoMu).

The museum consists of its director Noteradaeme, a booth and a small collection of objects - and only two people can visit the museum at a time.

The booth of the Homeless Museum of Art functions as a reception, front desk, director’s office, and exhibition floor.

It exhibits the performance, aptly dubbed ‘The Director is in’.

Visitors must sit in plastic folding chairs in front of the booth - behind of which sits Noteradaeme, while a stuffed coyote named ‘Florence Coyote’ sits on its side.

In his tongue-in-cheek performance, Noteradaeme would give out and take back tickets for the visitors; explain the museum’s collection of artworks; introduce the museum’s Director of Public Relations Florence Coyote; and engage in conversation about art, asking questions and leaving visitors with an altered perspective about art and commerce.

Since 2003, it has popped up in various locations around New York City.

Until the end of July, the performance would take place at the High Line, near 23rd Street Lawn [New York City], on Tuesdays from 5PM to 9.30PM.

HoMu stand at the 2005 Armory Show, New York.

Filip Noterdaeme, seated, talking with a visitor to his Homeless Museum of Art on the Bowery (Source).

More information at the Homeless Museum of Art Website

Top image: Sketch Proposal for the 2005 Armory Show, New York.

[Source: DesignTAXI. Edited. Some images, videos and links added.]

Video

1. HOMU: The Homeless Museum of Art

Source: YouTube via High Line Blog

A profile of the Homeless Museum of Art (HOMU), an art project by New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme.

2. This is HoMu BKLYN

Source: YouTube via The Homeless Museum of Art

HoMu BKLYN is the headquarters of the Homeless Museum (HoMu), a conceptual art project by Filip Noterdaeme, located in Brooklyn, New York City. From March 2005 to March 2007, HoMu BKLYN held monthly open houses. In April 2007, pressured by the forces of lanlordism, HoMu BKLYN was privatized.