What about an analog version of your touchscreen idea?  I'm envisioning podium-style signs with line drawings of the walls they are in front of.  The labels would be inside the outlines of the works.  This arrangement is commonly used for labeling people in group photos, and I think it would work great for a salon-style exhibition. 

--Jake Hildebrandt



On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Via, Marie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello Listers –

 

What’s the best method you’ve seen for labeling in a salon-style installation?  We’re doing an exhibition of work that has rarely (if ever!) been out of the storage vaults and plan to include about 150 paintings and prints that will be stacked and hung relatively close together.  In an ideal world, we’d have a rendering of the layout on a series of touch-screens that would allow visitors to pull up info on individual pieces – but I don’t think that will be an option for us.  We’ve discussed the pros and cons of numbering the works and keying them to a take-around guide, but that’s not optimal either.  Very interested to hear from those of you who’ve seen this done effectively – thanks!

 

Marie Via

Director of Exhibitions

Memorial Art Gallery

500 University Ave.

Rochester, NY  14607

585-276-9003

 

In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows

August 26–October 28, 2012

 

Renaissance Remix: Art & Imagination in 16th-century Europe

Now Open in the Dorothy McBride Gill Discovery Center

 

Framing Edo: Masterworks from Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views
September 21, 2012–January 13, 2013 in the Lockhart Gallery

 


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