Gholamreza Tousian Shandiz - Assistant Professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Majid Akhshabi - Assistant Professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Majid Ahmadi - M.A. Art Research, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Fariba Arvin Nasab - M.A. Educational Planning, Azad University, Tehran, Iran

The phenomenology of place and space of museums in relation to ontology and epistemology are approaches that are classified through models and theories. In the first, there is perception and awareness and in the second there is the functioning of phenomena and how to use it. Museums designing and architecture include both ontology and epistemology for designing and architectures to achieve kinds of styles with different architects that have created unique features in shapes and decorations. The types of architecture and designing of museums in large or public buildings are formed for individuals and societies so that they have felt themselves, have experienced and finally have learned in those places and spaces because museums are places and spaces for visiting and learning not only for visitors but also for experts of designing and architecture to achieve place of museums as ontology and space of museums as epistemology. The question of the article is how museums have been classified through model of McQuail to achieve place and space?

Designing, Architecture, Museum, Place, Space, McQuail Model, Phenomenology