figures from digital exhibits for cultural institutions
9 December 2022
Written by Emily Marsh
Here are all the images used in my book, Creating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions: A Guide, available from Routledge, March 2023.
Figure 1.1
Display of different types of information resources, ordered by their degree of interpretation and amount of analytical predetermination: Thematic Essays, Thematic Research Collections and Critical Editions, Digital Exhibits, Curated Collections, and Search and Discovery Systems.
Figure 2.1
Maryland Historical Society. Museum. (1992-1993). Mining the Museum: ‘Metalwork, 1793-1880.’ [Photograph]. Maryland Center for History and Culture. Baltimore, MD. https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/mining-the-museum-metalwork-1793-1880/
Figure 2.2
Graphic showing functions of digital exhibits (identification, display, engagement, interpretation, education, and experience) aligned on a diagonal line, ordered by degree of rhetorical function from object identification to visitor experience
Figure 3.1
Data librarian persona for a scientific data repository
Figure 3.2
Mushroom in the Hills of Adelaide by Michael Hartwich is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Figure 4.1
A sample of materials discovered during background research for four digital exhibits
Figure 4.2
Wireframe of home page for proposed exhibit on Negro Extension with slideshow of featured items and list of topic areas
Figure 4.3
Exhibit proposal with communication plan
Figure 4.4
Mockup of home page for proposed exhibit on Negro Extension
Figure 5.1
Home page of “Frost on Chickens” exhibit about the poet Robert Frost and poultry farming
Figure 5.2
Home page of “Apron Strings and Kitchen Sinks” exhibit about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Home Economics
Figure 5.3
Home page of “George Washington Carver” exhibit featuring his technical bulletins
Figure 5.4
Home page of “Mailboxes, Mom and Pop Stands, and Markets: Local Foods Then and Now” exhibit
Figure 5.5
Home page of “Small Agriculture” exhibit
Figure 6.1
Two fictional exhibit communication plans for proposed exhibits on tick control and food waste
Figure 7.1
Different views of object-level metadata for Work Clothes for Women in an exhibit timeline, the “bite,” from a single item view within the exhibit, the “snack,” and from the item’s original Internet Archive record, the “meal”
Figure 8.2
Afrofuturist Period Room by Allison Meier is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Figure 8.3
The Glass Room by Rhododendrites is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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