Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau has transformed the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse into the Anthropocene Museum 9.0 as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial.
Cave Bureau chose a still-functioning slaughterhouse in central Sharjah as the home of the ninth edition of its roaming Anthropocene Museum.
"We have welcomed artists and creatives to be in the museum, so you walk through a working slaughterhouse, but also a museum," Cave Bureau co-founder Kabage Karanja told Dezeen.
Cave Bureau created the Anthropocene Museum in a slaughterhouse
"We were invited to select a site in any part of the city of Sharjah and make an intervention," explained Karanja.
"We chose the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse, as an extension of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial's strategy to embed an exhibition program within the fabric of the city," he continued. "A powerful ambition that we refer to as an act of reverse futurism, where they co-opt both old and new neglected buildings of the city as a cultural canvas to trigger new regenerative interventions that can spur the city's growth, through a rich exchange of ideas and urban experiments."
Visitors enter through the animal pens
Visitors travel through the museum following the route that animals take when being processed through the slaughterhouse.
First, they enter through the gates, where a neon sign saying "slaughterhouse tour" was erected, before entering the pens and then travelling up a r...