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Exhibition design

Designs exhibitions in museums, fairs or public spaces: how a story is told in space with objects, texts, images, light and a path.

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Origin
Museum and trade-fair practice; reference handbook by Lorenc, Skolnick and Berger (2007)

What it deals with

Visitors walk, get tired and choose what to look at. If the exhibition doesn't guide them, the story is lost.

Principles

  • Narrative

    The exhibition has a storyline you walk through.

  • Several levels

    Those who pass quickly and those who stop should both take something away.

  • Everything communicates

    The space, the light and the displays are part of the message.

Applications in design

  • Use it like this

    Write the narrative first and then design the path.

  • Avoid

    Long texts to read standing up, in small type.

  • Don’t fall for it

    Think of groups, children and people with reduced mobility when laying out the path.

Connections

Related to

Authors and works

  1. 2007

    Jan Lorenc, Lee Skolnick and Craig Berger

    Explained exhibition design as the union of narrative, space and graphics.

Sources

Secondary sources

  • Lorenc, J., Skolnick, L., & Berger, C. (2007). What is exhibition design? RotoVision.

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