Presentation on the then new British Galleries at the V&A.

1. UK Museum Crawl 2002
J. Jensen

2. UK Museum Crawl 2002

3. Mission
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The Galleries display the most
comprehensive collection of British
design and art on view anywhere in the
world.
(BTW - The V&A is the greatest museum of
applied and decorative arts in the world.)
According to them…

4. The V & A
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5. The V & A
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6. Map
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The V&A is very big
and confusing

7. Cool Britannia
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This exhibit is quite possibly the most
outstanding I have seen, ever
•Incredible exhibit design (form, layout,
colour, fabrication)
•Very simple and clever interactives
•Appealed to families with children under
12
•Only art/dec arts museum I have ever
heard people squealing with glee!

8. Exhibit Plan
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The galleries are HUGE!!!!!!!!!!
Enter
here

9. Exhibit Plan
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Did I mention they were
HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????
Exit
here

10. Succinct Intro Panel
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11. Basic Entry Too
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12. Orientation Panel/Map
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But it is behind you as you walk in...

13. Four Themes
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•Style
•Who Led Taste?
•Fashionable Living
•What Was New?
I think these are
lost on visitors -
most miss panel

14. Dates in Floor
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This was a nice touch - floors are often
forgotten!

15. Exhibit Spaces
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It was a little dark in the first few rooms

16. Exhibit Spaces
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Nice vistas throughout

17. Exhibit Spaces
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18. Exhibit Spaces
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19. Exhibit Spaces
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20. Exhibit Spaces
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This was pretty much the Chippendale
exhibit...

21. Exhibit Spaces
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22. Exhibit Spaces
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23. Floor Treatments
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Nice variation of “floors” - often
forgotten

24. Floor Treatments
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25. Floor Treatments
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26. Floor Treatments
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27. UK Museum Crawl 2002
And Ceilings Treatments!
Cantilevered
ceilings add to
atmosphere
throughout

28. Typical Display
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Lush combination of artifacts - not
segregated

29. “See Thru” Spaces
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Openings from
space to space are
nice too

30. “See Thru” Spaces
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31. Benches
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Found throughout, with pockets for text
books

32. Benches
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Stashes of stools
throughout space
•Carry around
•Put on hook when
done

33. Retractable Flashlights
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Provided in dark areas as needed - can’t
steal ‘em!

34. Retractable Flashlights
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Socket detail

35. Text Panels
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These big panels are
standard
•note simple
design…
•It does rather
blather on and on
though
•There were lots of
these throughout

36. Text Panels
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Object Label - nice and spare (only 3000
of them…)

37. Supplemental Text
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Large print and full
text
•Apparently the
labels don’t have all
the info
•Found throughout
space

38. ADA Accessibility
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Several of these engraved plates to be
touched

39. Internal Wayfinding
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Side galleries indicated (and keyed to
maps)

40. Interactives up the Wazoo
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There was stuff to mess with integrated
everywhere!

41. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Touchable carving

42. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Yellow panels are pullouts with Braille

43. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Touchable veneers

44. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Another touchable carving

45. Interactives up the Wazoo
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More touchable objects

46. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Progressive stitch work completion and
magnifier

47. Interactives up the Wazoo
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A variety of ceramic samples, all
tethered

48. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Detail

49. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Touchable bed construction details and
fabric

50. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Details (note Braille panels)

51. Chest of Drawers
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Fully manipulable, with tagged questions

52. Chest of Drawers
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You can take the drawers out!

53. Chest of Drawers
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And spin it around!

54. Chest of Drawers
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Question and answer tags

55. Interactives up the Wazoo
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Use UV light to see
what has been
replaced/repaired
on figures

56. Metal Flip Panels
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Used throughout, will NEVER wear out (note
finger lip)

57. Metal Flip Panels
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Hinge and bend detail

58. Metal Flip Panels
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Also multipage “books”

59. Metal Flip Panels
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Also integrated in
this orientation
•This one deals
with original value

60. Flip Panel - Object in Detail
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First page IDs object

61. Flip Panel - Object in Detail
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Next - question and clue (note colour
change)

62. Flip Panel - Object in Detail
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And then an answer

63. Flip Panel - Object in Detail
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Several more pages - last on Ids object
fully

64. Books
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Plastic pages with heavy duty plastic
“binding”

65. Books
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These will last
forever too
•Each page
screwed into round
“rotator”
•All mounted on a
shaft
•Arranged to avoid
pages binding

66. Drawing Drawers
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Open
•Good way of
displaying multiple
flat items
•Could work for
comics...

67. Drawing Drawers
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As integrated into a display

68. Drawing Drawers
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Upright orientation

69. Visitor Input
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Write down thoughts about what you
collect!

70. Visitor Input
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Staff edits for the best ones (laminated)

71. Visitor Input
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Write about an important object of yours

72. Visitor Input
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Visitors enlargements laminated and
displayed

73. Study Areas
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2 (one each floor) in corner spaces

74. Study Areas
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Computers with all content, books,
printers

75. Study Room
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Bookcase and comfy chairs

76. Digital Media
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In galleries and Discovery Rooms (attract
loop)

77. Digital Media
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Main screen

78. Digital Media
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Period screen

79. Digital Media
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Object Screen

80. Digital Media
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Explore a single painting in detail

81. Video
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Very well done - and no audio!

82. Video
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Another intro screen - about attribution

83. Video
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Standard unit
•Found throughout
space

84. Video
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Another overall
•As unit appears in context

85. Video
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Unit adapted to a tight space

86. Audio
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The one failure - all but one unit was
dead!

87. Audio
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This was the only working audio (and for
DMK too!)

88. Audio
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Was also broken in benches...

89. Discovery Rooms
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3 found within space
•Many activities grouped together
•Dress up
•Computers
•Hands On
•“Pick a Box”
•“What is it?”

90. Discovery Room 1
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First found behind armour in this view

91. Discovery Room 1
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Overall views
•Note see thru vista
at armour

92. Discovery Room 1
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What is it? case

93. Discovery Room 1
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Open doors and mirrors reveal answers
(very clever)

94. Discovery Room 1
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Dress up activity
(note hat solution -
acrylic!)

95. Discovery Room 1
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Gauntlet
•Matches armour
•Put your hand in it
•Note thru vista
here too

96. Discovery Room 1
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Build a chair!
•Just like Ikea...

97. Discovery Room 1
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Parts stow away nicely (and people do
so!)

98. Discovery Room 1
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Weaving interactive
•Aimable light on post

99. Discovery Room 1
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Write a saga - staff collect, edit,
laminate, display

100. Discovery Room 1
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Activity Boxes
•Each room has a
stack of these
•Each small activity
different
•Could work in our
history kits

101. Discovery Room 1
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Activity Boxes
•Each includes materials and instructions

102. Discovery Room 2
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Overall view - with computers and “What
is It?”

103. Discovery Room 2
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Build a Chippendale
chair

104. Discovery Room 2
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Make a frame
•Magnetic components

105. Discovery Room 2
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Tie a cravat

106. Discovery Room 2
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More dress-up
•Note hook to hang
up cravat

107. Discovery Room 2
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Pick-a-Box
•Additional small
activities tucked
into boxes
•Workspace to use
them

108. Discovery Room 3
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Build your own version of the Crystal
Palace

109. Discovery Room 3
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110. Discovery Room 3
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111. Discovery Room 3
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Create a bookplate - print or email it!

112. Discovery Room 3
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See what I made?
•Email broke later in
the day though…
•Diane was very
disappointed

113. Period Rooms
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Cutout figure, not mannequin

114. Period Rooms
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Repro chairs match artifacts - you can sit
in them!

115. Period Room
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Showing patch
before restoration
•Also interesting
book with details of
process

116. “Period Rooms”
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Exposed construction details

117. Objects Displayed Open
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Objects that open are shown open (in
places)

118. Objects Displayed Open
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Unobtrusive acrylic
bracket on wall

119. Other Display Ideas
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Clothing as in a closet

120. Mannequins
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Very abstract and
effective

121. Other Display Ideas
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What makes this
chair a fake?

122. Light Sensitive Cabinet
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Only one of these
•Open up doors
•Push button to turn
light on
•Lights goes off
when doors shut
•Never seen
something this
slick!

123. Models
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Depicted actual structures and interior
layout