The Women's Museum in Dallas Texas. It is affliliated with the
Smithsonian in ways that I am not clear about. One of the complaints by
some of the reviewer's when it first opened is that it did not have
"exhibit" except in a very limited way.

It opens with a multi-screen presentation about the changing roles of
women, after one has passed a three-story high "quilt" of a multiscreen
projection. When I was there the squares of the quilt either had the WM
logo of the Women's Museum or different covers of Texas Monthly magazine
with women (Gov. Ann Richards, Cissy Spacik, Drs. Astronauts, etc). All
the "squares" are rear screen or liquid crystal projections.

There is a movie theatre which I did not have time to enter, a 7 minute
film at the endd called NEXT with images of faces of all races, all ages,
all sexes, offering the viewer to create the "next" century of exhibits,
and closes with a computer with which you can record your reaction to the
exhibits. There is one area near the opening with tryptichs of women in
differnent fields which includes items on loan from the Smithsonian or
other museums, but in another section, you had to interact with the
topics on a touch screen to find out more about that section.

I did not go to the third floor displays. (No time left that day.)

The building formerly housed state fair exhibits and later was the home
of a theatre set designer. Fascinating way they used space to allow
handicap access and have a continuous flow through the building. Very
hi-tech. Investigate it.

Mary Kirby
Historic Upshur Museum

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:40:49 -0500 "Nicholas P. Ciotola"
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
> opened
> in 2001. It relies almost exclusively on multimedia exhibitions to
> narrate
> immigration/ethnic history in this west-central Pennsylvania steel
> town.
>
> Visit their site at www.jaha.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Gale" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:35 PM
> Subject: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions
>
>
> > I would like to know if anyone could identify recent examples, in
> North
> America and elsewhere, of large scale, exhibition-like presentations
> at a
> > museum or related type of cultural institution that were created
> largely,
> if not entirely, using a variety of multimedia technologies,
> audio-visual
> > components, media environments and experiences, etc., possibly
> along with
> some printed texts and cultural objects. Such presentations might
> > have been designed to introduce a museum's range of collections;
> to
> complement a traditional, object-based exhibit; or to serve as a
> > stand-alone display intended to engage visitors in some sort of
> thematic
> concern or subject of relevance to the museum or cultural
> organization
> > and their publics. It might be housed in a separate facility and
> even be
> independent of any museum, although museum-like in its intentions.
> >
> > This sort of presentation would utilize a diverse range of current
> media
> technologies and be designed to engage and inform visitors much like
> an
> > object-based exhibit, but through the latest technologies. I am
> familiar
> with small-scale examples of this sort of presentation, usually
> within the
> > context of a traditional exhibit, but am wondering about their
> existence
> as larger-scaled, independent presentations. I would also like to
> know if
> > there are any examples that are currently on view anywhere.
> >
> > As well, I'd be curious to know the names of firms that are known
> to
> specialize in this sort of presentation.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
> >
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