Monday, 5 October 2009

Involving visitors in exhibit creation

Stepping away from the services and innovations from Hong Kong and Japan. I came across this idea from www.culturalinnovations.com. It talks about how museums and exhibits are beginning to adapt a new way in their format, which is encouraging the public to exhibit and even to design their own exhibits and then work with the museum from the basic draft to the final outcome of the exhibit.
For example, the Brooklyn Museum and Minnesota History Centre from the States have recently hosted public exhibitions which only consists of stories, objects and photos which were submitted by the general public. This simple idea of involving visitors is crucial as it truly engages the visitors, reflect their interests and the way they live.
As London consists of many museums and exhibits running 365 days of the year, it would be very interesting to involve the diverse cultural community to submit, design and work with organizations to create what they want to see and do within these exhibits.
Sometimes when we look at a particular piece of artwork, we always say: 'I can do that.' If more and more museums and exhibits re encouraging the public to participate, I'm sure one of us can be the next Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes - Andy Warhol

More info at:
http://culturalinnovations.com/views03.html

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