general, blogging, displays/exhibits, web resources
What would an exhibition as a blog look like?
It seems like our unique position as the only Danish museum with a blog is coming to an end. The Organisation of Danish Museums has annonced a new blog which encourages museums to blog and digitize their research, communication and collections (they also use our blog as a succesful example, though).
This makes me think whether the change in science communication on the web (from presenting results = the classical website, to debating and process-oriented discussions = web 2.0) will one day come to the museum exhibition as well?
And what would a museum exhibition then look like? In our new temporary exhibition, Oldetopia, we have tried to let different phenomena and statements meet each other, so that it is up to visitors to draw their conclusions. But besides having a guest book, we do not try to integrate the visitors feedback directly into the exhibition.
The question is: How can we more seriously change the exhibitions, from a one-way-communication situation to a more dynamic arena? How would an exhibition as a blog look like? Suggestions and illustrating examples are wellcome.
10 Dec 2007 camilla
Suggestions for a blog-exhibition:
1) add one object at a time (e.g., one a day) to a increasing series of objects (like adding posts to a blog).
2) in other words, the objects are not added according to a preconceived plan, but follow how your thinking develops over time, and
3) the visitors will see a somewhat more extended exhibition each time the pass by — in other words, this kind of exhíbition is probably best suited for public spaces where many people pass daily, like a hospital entrance hall
4) i.e., the series of objects do not form a ‘narrative’ sequence, but are one-by-one accretions
5) visitors (commentators) can add objects as ‘comments’
6) the successive objects are primarily chosen as expressions of personal values and decisions
7) hyperlinks?? Photos of similar objects placed in other contexts
I guess one shouldn’t push the ‘blog’ comparison too far, but it’s fun to imagine that thinking in blog terms opens up for other ways of thinking exhibitions. For example, I’ve never before entertained the idea that one could have an exhibition that grows step by step in public.