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What you Know about the Exhibition?


           Basic Things To Know About Exhibition


1. Installation is the culmination of years of work
Exhibitions take several years to put together. It all begins with an idea. Objects are selected, researched, and conserved. Scripts are written, edited, and re-written. A design team uses those ideas to create a drawing of the proposed exhibition. When a final design is reached, then the exhibition can be built. Walls are put up and cases are constructed.
Object installation is the shortest part of creating an exhibition, but also the most intense
Larger exhibitions such as American Democracy (AD) take several months to install. AD has almost 900 objects and each one of those objects needs to be individually mounted (see number seven for more on that), installed, and then lit.
 It requires mental and physical flexibility
Installation can be demanding. You are standing, walking, lifting, bending, reaching, and climbing ladders. We easily can take over 10,000 steps on any given day of exhibition installation (we know because we've tracked it!). Working in small cases and maneuvering around case furniture can require some interesting gymnastics.
If done well, you will probably never notice one of the most important features of an exhibition: MOUNTS
While some objects can be displayed simply sitting on the case bottom, many require specialized mounts to position them safely in the case and allow for optimum viewing. Highly skilled mount makers fabricate custom mounts for each specific object, and they are often so carefully crafted as to blend seamlessly with the object. The type of mount fabricated is based on the design layout for how the object is to be displayed along with the conservation and support needs of each particular object.
Lighting can make or break an exhibition—and its objects
Exhibition spaces are generally dark because the light is damaging. Light causes things to fade and become brittle. However, It isn't worth putting objects on view if there isn't enough light to see them! Curators, collections managers, and conservators determine how much light an object can tolerate before incurring damage
Math: turns out even history majors need it, particularly during an exhibition installation
We often joke to friends and family that we don't do math because we are history people. But much to our dismay, we do have to do the math. We have to give accurate measurements to the exhibition designers who must design the cases to the correct dimensions
When installing, you find yourself in some interesting places
Places we never expected to find ourselves on the job but did: At the top of a 12-foot ladder. Underneath a case. Inside a case. Crawling through a hole in the wall. Covered in dust from cleaning. Pulling mannequins on a flatbed. Lifting an 80-pound glass case cover. Driving a pallet jack. 
Every installation is different
Between the two of us, we've worked on at least 10 exhibition installations out of the Division of Political History, and no two have been quite alike. The basis of each installation is the same, but each has its own unique set of circumstances. 
It's equal parts difficult and a blast
Putting up an exhibition in time for a target opening date can require a lot of long, intense days, but it is also really, really fun. We work very closely with the entire exhibition crew (which includes case fabricators, conservators, construction teams, mount makers, security, lighting designers, and many, many more) and develop a friendly working relationship.
It's never actually over
Even after we've opened the exhibitions to the public, we are never truly done. We periodically rotate light-sensitive objects such as textiles and paper so they don't get damaged from too much light exposure.
                                                                 

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