The website of the planning & development network Planetizen reports on the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change in Salt Lake City, a public participation project that looks to conceptualize the city and its changing character. Urban development, demolition, and redevelopment has been a century-long pattern in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the city again ventures into a massive redevelopment project, former planning director Stephen Goldsmith wants the community to take a new look at what this change means for the city. And he’s created a museum to help them do it.

Currently the museum has no specific address and projects move around, but those involved are looking to utilize the mile-and-a-half of construction walls that are lining the streets as a way to create connections between pedestrians and their changing city. They have been working with property owners to gain permission to build display windows along these construction walls, transforming the plain barriers into a kind of storefront façade. These display windows would be used to highlight some of the lesser-known resources that exist downtown.

Go to the website of the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change or read what others have to say about it:
Musée sans mur
KCPW radio interview with the museum curators
Virtual museum to document Salt Lake City’s evolving culture 
Museums amid mall projects?