What and how can museum exhibits use manipulative strategies to make the exhibit more visually engaging to the visitors?
Idea:
- Create a mini-model of a museum exhibit with my art pieces
- Design the layout of the exhibit and the pieces and try to include some manipulative strategies
Timeline:
- Completely understand the process of museum curation and the manipulative strategies used by the museums- get all the sources down and take out the information that is important and can be used
- Go to these exhibits again(if i can) and get images of the layout and written information in order to get a idea of the patterns and design
- Age of Empires: Chinese Art of Qin and Han Dynasties(MET)
- From the Collection: 1960s (MOMA)
- NY At Its Core (Museum of the City of NY)
- Manus X Machina (MET)
- Cindy Sherman: Once a Upon Time
- Notice the similarities and differences between the exhibits in order to observe what patterns were repeated through the exhibits and which ones were not.
- Laid it out in a way that the visitors can follow through the exhibit on their own- no need for signs
- Either the exhibit was a huge circle or an upside-down “U” shape except NY At Its Core, which was broke into different sections (a little confusing)
- At two of them the title was at the entrance of exhibit in a large font and on top of a huge wall whereas the other two had it on a wall but in a simpler way
- Layout- things surrounded the walls and then several huge pieces in the middle, so the visitors would know
- Also as soon as you enter a different room, in the corner (right as you enter) they showcased a video, so they attention goes straight there
- Interview a curator- head of the department/ part of the team
- Ask them questions on museum curation and the manipulative strategies they use to attract visitors/engage visitors into the exhibit
- If the exhibit is on a specific topic, which doesn’t appeal to everybody, then how do you make it appeal to the whole public? Ex: Chinese Dynasties
- How do you decide the layout of the exhibit? Where to put each piece and which room? How to organize each part of the rooms?
- Do you believe using these manipulative strategies really affects the success of the exhibit?
- Decide on the pieces that I will put into the exhibit and why?
- Create mock-up on paper of how I am going to layout my exhibit
- Need to get the supplies- shoebox, card box, photographs, paint, sculpy(maybe?)
- Create the actual mini exhibit with 10-15 pieces in a show box with 2 rooms(2 different layout)
April 20th- Finalize the interview questions to Radhika, finalize on an idea/topic for the exhibit. Get supplies/pieces needed.
April 27th- Decide which elements of the layout design I will include in my exhibit. Decide the pieces I will put in to the exhibition and how many. Create a paper mock-up of how the exhibit is going to look like and start working on the actual model
May 4th- Work on the actual model and finish it up.
May 11th- Present the exhibit
