Day Three:Friday

I. The Audience-Centered Museum

Display strategies and Evaluation Rubrics

Curatorial/content-based emphasis vs. experience/audience-centered emphasis.

Discussion on types of exhibition. (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 55kB Jul5 11)
Types of Exhibition PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 10.2MB Jul5 11)

Labels that ask questions:

a. Serrell, Ch. 10
b. Nina Simon, Participatory Museum

Three reasons to ask questions in exhibitions:

1. To encourage visitors to engage deeply and personally with a specific object.
   
2. To motivate interpersonal dialogue among visitors around a particular object or idea.
3. To provide feedback or useful information to staff about an object/exhibition.
   

Evaluation rubrics: exercise with library exhibition.
What are the criteria to evaluate effectiveness of an exhibition. (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 63kB Jul5 11)

Workshop Evaluation (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 67kB Jul7 11)