Museum is a print project by writer-editor Laura Bannister and creative director Matthew Roland Bannister — a husband-and-wife team who spent half a decade producing one of the most visually striking independent publications at the intersection of contemporary art and fashion. Published biannually, the magazine was available at the world's most iconic galleries and newsstands, treating each issue as a curated object that belonged as much in a museum shop as on a coffee table.
The editorial approach was distinctive: Museum treated fashion and art not as separate industries to be covered but as intertwined creative practices that share audiences, aesthetics, and ambitions. The photography was ambitious, the design was meticulous, and the writing engaged seriously with both the art world and the fashion world without deferring to either. For a small independent title, the distribution was remarkable — the kind of placement that most magazines spend years trying to achieve.
After five years of biannual publication, the Bannisters transitioned Museum from magazine to book form. The first volume, Out in the World with Gaetano Pesce, was published by Literal Matter in New York — a fitting evolution for a project that had always treated every issue as a self-contained art object rather than a disposable periodical.
<a href="https://www.museumbooks.net/">Visit Museum