Please excuse cross-postings.

I am hoping for information and creative techniques concerned with
layering of information in exhibitions
and/or
ways of providing access to further information within (or adjacent to)
exhibition spaces.

As a new Programs & Research area in the Museum of Victoria (Australia),
we of the Human Mind and Body team are faced with the challenge of
developing projects with particular angles, while providing visitors
with access to a wealth of medical information as broad or detailed as
they desire. More detailed information (eg. which allow visitors to look
up what a gene is and does, or the importance of a hormone) is currently
available on the internet, CD-ROM encyclopaedias and disease
dictionaries or could be provided through other prepared media eg. fact
sheets, voice recordings etc. - but questions surround the method of
access (how many computer terminals are REALLY useful in an exhibition).
How can interested visitors be directed to this wealth of information?
Should it be within the exhibition space, or in another area? Will it
distract from the experience around it? Are there other creative methods
of providing deeper information?

If you have seen successful approaches to this, know of brilliant
references or have wonderful or unusual suggestions - I look forward to
hearing from you. Thanks in advance - please reply off list.

Cheers
Bronwyn

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