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August 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Visitor Experience, when did it become screen based?

 In the good old days of dusty old museums a tiny hand written label with the name, location and date collected and material used would suffice for describing an artefact.

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Added by Eric Leyland on August 29, 2011 at 7:00am — 4 Comments

Can’t Touch This – Museum Exhibition Display Showcases

 

Achieving the invisible museum display showcase or exhibition display vitrine has long been the aspiration or goal of museum designers, architects, curators and showcase manufactures. They all have a shared vision to display and communicate every day items along with extraordinary exhibits in their purest form without restriction or barrier.

 

From its very nature, once you place a piece…

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Added by Tamara De Schepper on August 19, 2011 at 2:50am — No Comments

Cabinets of Curiosity

From the category of curious things comes the Curiosity Cabinet. A web site for collectors who collect collections. For more ...My blog post

Added by Eric Leyland on August 18, 2011 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Do Visitors Still Read Interpretive Text Panels?

This is the topic of a recent discussion I started on the Museums Design group in Linkedin. Judging from the numbers of comments this is a very pertinent question in the exhibit design field and one that museum professionals around the world are still grappling with. The consensus seems to be that yes visitors still do read the exhibit text panels but there appears to be questions over how many, and how much of the text gets read. Numerous studies have been done showing that some people…
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Added by Eric Leyland on August 17, 2011 at 3:00am — No Comments

Fundraising for Museums

Hi All,

 

I am new to Museum3 and thought I should do as I was prompted and add some content!

 

I started as Head of the Queensland Museum Foundation a year and a half ago, and during that time have been working closely with the Foundation team to launch a donor acquisition campaign, designed to attract and gain new supporters of the work of the Queensland Museum.

 

I thought I might share a link to the campaign, which we called Become a part of…

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Added by Margot Andersen on August 15, 2011 at 4:39pm — 2 Comments

Confessions of a Formal Education Enabler

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Added by Gretchen Jennings on August 11, 2011 at 7:06am — No Comments

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