Dawan News Just past the National Day holiday, "museum fever" has become a dazzling scenery, more and more people are willing to enter the museum. Interesting and connotative exhibitions are innovative, and the help of curators is indispensable behind this. With ingenuity and rigor, they carefully arrange precious artifacts and historical stories to present a fascinating exhibition. How are good exhibitions created? Recently, the reporter walked into a curatorial company in Shushan District, Hefei City, and listened to the story of this group of curators who specialize in planning and designing for museums.
Design Director Hu Biaoxian and team members discuss the design plan.
Draw up a 20,000-word outline for the exhibition
This company is located in an open-plan office area on the 29th floor of a commercial building. Members of the design team sat around to discuss the recent project design and construction outline.
"We are doing the project of the White Goose Cultural Center in Western Anhui, and before planning the design outline, we usually have to read twenty or thirty relevant books and hundreds of documents, select suitable themes and exhibits, and then invite relevant experts to demonstrate the feasibility." Just after the discussion, Hu Biaoxian, general manager and design director of Tiandijian Expo in Shushan District, Hefei City, took the members of the planning team to consult the history books.
Hu Biaoxian said that an outline is generally 20,000 or 30,000 words, including historical background, copywriting introduction, exhibition layout, cultural relics plane and three-dimensional design. "Only a full understanding of the exhibition project can be designed and written, during which there will be many communications with customers and experts, and repeated revisions will be made, and a small and medium-sized museum of 500-1000 square meters needs 1-3 months to draw up the outline."
"Museum curating exhibitions is a systematic work, which requires the strength of a team." Hu Biaoxian introduced that the company has 6 planners and 35 designers, who are divided into groups to carry out planning and design work.
A corner of the Anhui Museum's Anbozhi space-time exhibition hall.
Walk through history and dialogue with artifacts
Talking bronzes, touch the screen to ring the chimes, and experience shooting in VR...... Walking into the Anhui Museum's Anbo Zhi Time and Space Pavilion, An Xiaobo and his good friends take visitors back to the scenes in history and intuitively understand the past of cultural relics. This exhibition hall is also one of the projects undertaken by the corporate curatorial team. Because of its immersive experience such as magical light and shadow space and story-based interactive games, it is loved by the audience, especially teenagers.
The former residence project of Huang Binhong in She County undertaken by the Expo Exhibition between Heaven and Earth
"We selected 9 bronzes from the many cultural relics in the collection of the Anhui Museum to design cartoon characters, and An Xiaobo is one of them, mainly allowing the audience to understand the history and culture through the stories of different bronzes and interactive games." Hu Biaoxian introduced, "From the theme planning in the early stage to the selection of exhibits and layout design, it is necessary to study the historical background in-depth and dig out many unknown stories in order to make the exhibition in-depth and charming." ”
Hu Biaoxian, who has been engaged in the exhibition industry for more than ten years, has handled more than 100 museum exhibition projects. In his view, museum curation requires a wide range of professional skills, "interested in historical and cultural knowledge, good at tracking and exploring, and accurately understanding the value of cultural relics; Have a certain aesthetic ability, design a space layout that conforms to the theme and has good visual effects; Good communication and coordination skills are required, and innovative thinking is required, and they are good at learning and using new forms and methods. ”
Diverse presentation to be a cultural messenger
A good curator is a bridge between history and the present. A good exhibition, from the theme style and presentation form, to the display of cultural relics and detailed design, is inseparable from the ingenuity and ingenuity of the curator.
"Curating an exhibition needs to have a good understanding and interpretation of cultural relics, and it is necessary to consider the purpose and significance of the exhibition, the audience and the content expressed." Hu Biaoxian said that the diversified presentation of the exhibition is indispensable to scientific and technological means. "In the Shexian Huang Binhong Former Residence Project, we use immersive scenes and arc screen projections to make the exhibition more vivid and interesting. In various museum exhibitions, we also use magic walls, touch screens, and interactive installations for quiz games, etc., which can enhance the audience's sense of experience. ”
"I chose this industry after graduating, I love the job and find it very meaningful. I have learned a lot about the cultural relics and exhibitions I have handled, and I also want to share historical knowledge with more people through the exhibition and contribute to cultural inheritance. Hu Biaoxian said.
The wall is the paper, the shadow is the ink, and the light is the pen. High-quality exhibitions attract fans with strength, and professional curators use rich and diverse cultural creativity to connect history, culture and audiences, injecting new vitality and vitality into the museum.
Dawan News reporter Liu Yang correspondent Bao Min Chen Yingying
Edited by Peng Ling
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