Tehmina.
>>
The 'exhibition' includes a lot of historical
information and images of related objects and documents to give
context to the story of the building. This supporting information
will be 'layered' to keep the main narrative at a reasonable length
and in order to leave it to the visitor to access more detailed
information if they want to.
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Ok, this is a potentially a big subject but I'll try and answer as best I can.
We will be using Opus' Illuminatus to
create the installation.I'm interested to hear from any museums, libraries
or archives who
have installed something similar in their organisations. What
software did you use?
>>
In my experience 9 out of 10 museum kiosks are made with Director or Flash.
I don't
have any experience of Illuminatus so can't tell you what its like
>>
How did you judge the right length for the
installation, in terms of time taken to read text/view images or in
terms of the number of slides or screens?
>>
As a very general rule people will spend an average of 3 minutes on a kiosk
- longer if
you give them a seat. Ways to keep people interested are to put the most
exciting information
first, uses lots of pictures and keep the number of words per page below
about 90.
>>
Have you noticed an
increase in interest in the building and/or collections related to
it? Are visitors responsive to this kind of exhibition?
>>
Also as a general rule - yes visitors like this kind of thing a lot. But it
does depend
on what you do and the situation they're in. Gail Durbin has a nice paper at
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/acrobat_pdf/research/gail_durbin.pdf
which shows how kiosks were popular even for the "non-techy" V & A audience.
I would also recommend my "guidelines for museum computer exhibits" at
http://www.joecutting.com/softwarerequirements.html which gives you information
about how to design your exhibit.
If you're new to this I would also recommend looking at what other people
have done,
there are some similar things near Southampton (e.g. Portmouth's historic
dockyards) but
for sheer numbers I would recommend at visit to London to see the V & A
British Galleries, the Science Museum
and the National Portrait Gallery. (There's are lots of other institutions
with lots of good kiosks but this is a good start).
Best of luck with your project
Joe
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