10 Must Reads

In many museums and galleries interpretation remains poor or ineffective. We've reviewed literally hundreds of MuseumsEtc chapters and selected the most important ones to help you enhance your organisation's interpretation initiatives.

This highly practical, 360-page collection, with over 40 colour images, will inspire you to: Determine the impact your interpretation should have; Facilitate social interaction; Prevent visitor exhaustion; Conceive objects in terms of their connection to people; Programme for your audience, not for your collection; Check the effectiveness of your existing interpretation; Adopt successful design principles; And minimize the conflicts in your design team.

The contents include:

Interpreting Work Through Games
Christina Alderman, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Designing Effective Exhibits
Stephen Bitgood, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Jacksonville State University

Museum Fatigue: A New Look at an Old Problem | Social Influences on the Visitor Experience
Stephen Bitgood, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Jacksonville State University

How to Run a Democratic Exhibition
Subhadra Das & Jayne Dunn, University College London | Emma Passmore, Imperial College, London

What Are We Silently Saying? Non-Verbal Communication and Exhibitions
Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Northwestern University in Qatar

Museum Games and Interactive Narrative & Design: The Way We Tell Stories with Objects
Elizabeth Goins, Rochester Institute of Technology

Developing Interactive Exhibits Across Cultures
Claudia Schleyer, Consultant for Interactive Exhibits, Berlin

The Visitor Experience in Science Exhibitions: Design, Exhibits and Interactivity
Joerg Schmidtsiefen, Archimedes Exhibitions, Berlin

Crossing the Threshold: Designing to Engage
Gillian Thomas, Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, Miami

Exactly What Is Interpretation? | Interpretive Philosophy and Principles
John A Veverka, Interpretive Planning & Training Consultant