By David Dean
Museum Exhibition is the one textbook of its sort to contemplate exhibition improvement utilizing either conception and perform in an built-in method. This entire examine covers care of indicates, writing accompanying textual content, utilizing new know-how, exhibition overview, management and content material for a variety of collections. It offers an entire define for all these taken with delivering screens in musuems and different cultural history contexts.
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These are: • • • • • • value color texture balance line shape Value Value is the quality of lightness or darkness, having no reference specifically to color. Areas that are black have the lowest value; areas that are white, the highest. All the infinite stages between are varying degrees or shades of value. 1 Value scale by 5 percent increments Values are associated with visual weight characteristics. Normally, darker values are attributed the quality of heaviness; lighter shades are expressed as lighter in weight.
The degree of success in capturing patrons’ interest depends upon how well an exhibition catches their attention. There are three basic types of museum visitor. There is overlap between these generalizations, and some people will exhibit one type of behavior at one time and in one museum, and another somewhere else. It can be helpful to look at these groupings as an intellectual exercise. They form a framework to think about the various levels of information that exhibitions need to present, because not every visitor looks at every part of an exhibition.
However, wayfinders, information desks, air-conditioning, and friendly guards will not help if the visitor feels intimidated by the content and language of the exhibits. He or she will fear appearing foolish or dull-witted, and after spending a brief time will leave the museum, perhaps never to return. It is a commonly held belief, by many museum professionals, that visitors do not read labels, will not look at objects, do not change their views or attitudes, and continually look for the exit. If such an attitude is found in museum staffs, how adequate can their efforts be to make exhibitions attractive to visitors?