>I am developing four interactive, browsing or discovery rooms
>randomly scattered throughout our new museum complex in
>Los Angeles. The target audience for these rooms is adult,
>college-educated visitors with an interest in art, but little or
>know training in it. The goal of these rooms is to interpret the
>permanent collections, putting them in a historical context,
>as well as examining materials, techniques, styles and
>motifs. etc etc
>
>The working title for these rooms is Info Centers or
>Information Centers. I think this is pretty dry,etc etc
>
>Right now, some of the titles that have been suggested
>include: Art-itorium,etc etc... so I hope you will
don your thinking caps and help me out. Thank you
>
>Ceres Bainbridge
>J. Paul Getty Museum
>Dept. of Education
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On a different tack in naming your rooms, how about emphasizing the
humanity of their function, rather than the techiness of their means?  My
suggestion would be to dedicate each room to a great thinker/critic.  For
starters, I'd suggest The Ruskin Room, The Santayana Room, The Pevsner
Room, The Wolfflin Room,the Berenson Room and so on. It gets more debatable
when you come to the Greenberg Room,or the Berger Room, and I'm sure we're
not yet ready for the Hughes Room. Come to think of it, you can have great
fun getting consensus on the final cut.

Adding to the inspirational atmosphere by putting quotes from their works
round the walls might be considered too reactionary, but you could have
insightful one liners from them scrolling onto the screens from time to
time.

Michael Mcloughlin
Thwaite Productions
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