Museum Display - Research & Evidence

Below are images taken from the natural history museum in London as well as the museum of zoology in Cambridge. Bellow are the refined images from both trips and are the images i find most useful going forward looking at museum display techniques. As well as this i visited the shell museum in Glandford however i have no documentation of this due to loosing my phone before saving these images. Must remember to always back up my documentation!

My favourite display was the above of Darwin's collection of beetles. Although it looks slightly chaotic everything is there for a reason. They are grouped with similar species and still look uniformed. Each beetle is placed there using a pin and each has its own label naming the species. I also like how it has aged with evidence of pinholes showing how he moved the beetles as he gained more species. If the museum were to display his collection of beetles on a clean back ground and not the original book he displayed them in i don't think this would have had the same impact it has had on me. I think its also important that they haven't tried to recreate the original book and age it, if you going to make something new display it as new why make something what it isn't especially in a museum which is fact not fiction.

Looking back on the images i took and what i saw while looking round i made a few points to look at when exploring museum display techniques:

Always good lighting, often back lit
glass case displays often to protect the artefacts
spacial awareness - everything evenly spaced and often in size order
labelling clear and simple, making sure its straight to the point - informative without being descriptive - descriptive text is often to the side of the artefact
Animals displayed in formaldehyde jars all include labels and other relevant objects (plants, opposite sex etc)
hanging fixtures - an abundance of different ways to fix each object. - no fixture is hidden as such its just as important as the artefact itself, without it the artefact would get damaged

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