Creating Exhibits That Engage
eBook - ePub

Creating Exhibits That Engage

A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations

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eBook - ePub

Creating Exhibits That Engage

A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations

About this book

Winner of the 2018 Ontario Museum Association Award of Excellence

Winner of the 2019 Canadian Museum Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in the Research - Cultural Heritage Category


Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits. The book is full of information, guidelines, tips, and concrete examples drawn from the author's years of experience as a curator and exhibit developer in the United States and Canada. Is this your first exhibit project? You will find step-by-step instructions, useful advice and plenty of examples. Are you a small museum or local historical society looking to improve your exhibits?

This book will take you through how to define your audience, develop a big idea, write the text, manage the budget, design the graphics, arrange the gallery, select artifacts, and fabricate, install and evaluate the exhibit. Are you a museum studies student wanting to learn about the theory and practice of exhibit development? This book combines both and includes references to works by noted authors in the field. Written in a clear and accessible style, Creating Exhibits that Engage offers checklists of key points at the end of each chapter, a glossary of specialized terms, and photographs, drawings and charts illustrating key concepts and techniques.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2018
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781442279377
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Museum Administration
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Part I: Context, Audience, and Process
  6. Chapter 1: The Nature of Exhibits
  7. Chapter 2: Audience
  8. Chapter 3: Workflow
  9. Part II: Concept Development
  10. Chapter 4: The Big Idea
  11. Chapter 5: The Brief and Request for Proposals
  12. Chapter 6: Evaluation
  13. Chapter 7: Interpretive Planning
  14. Chapter 8: Text
  15. Chapter 9: Budget
  16. Part III: Design Development
  17. Chapter 10: Design
  18. Chapter 11: Curatorship
  19. Part IV: Fabrication
  20. Chapter 12: Studio
  21. Chapter 13: Workshop
  22. Chapter 14: Exhibit Furniture
  23. Chapter 15: Installation and Beyond
  24. Appendix 1
  25. Appendix 2
  26. Appendix 3
  27. Appendix 4
  28. Glossary
  29. About the Author

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