Creating Exhibits That Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations (American Association for State and Local History)

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Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits. The book is filled with information, guidelines, tips, and concrete examples drawn from the creator’s years of experience as a curator and exhibit developer in the US and Canada. Is this your first exhibit project? You’re going to find step by step instructions, useful advice and a variety of examples. Are you a small museum or local historical society having a look to give a boost to your exhibits?

This book will take you through how to define your audience, develop a big idea, write the text, manage the budget, design the graphics, arrange the gallery, make a selection artifacts, and fabricate, install and evaluate the exhibit. Are you a museum studies student wanting to be informed about the theory and practice of exhibit development? This book combines both and includes references to works by noted authors in the field. Written in a clear and accessible style, Creating Exhibits that Engage offers checklists of key points at the end of each chapter, a glossary of specialized terms, and photographs, drawings and charts illustrating key concepts and techniques.

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