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Exhibition Development

This guide aims to provide resources for planning an exhibition.

Step by Step Resources

Smithsonian Exhibition Planning Guide for Museums on Main Street
Smithsonian Exhibits Guide to Exhibition Development
Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences
by Polly McKenna-Cress and Janet Kamien
Creating Exhibits: From Planning to Building
Chapter 4 by Eugene Dillenburg and Janice Klein, from Small Museum Toolkit: Interpretation, eds. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Stacy Klingler
Museum Exhibition Planning and Design
by Elizabeth Bogle

Exhibition Development Process
by David Dean, from Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice

Writing Exhibition Labels

Getty Guide to Adult Audience Interpretive Materials: Gallery Texts and Graphics

Wall Text
by Ingrid Schaffner
Combating Redundancy: Writing Texts for Exhibitions
by Margareta Ekarv
V&A Label Writing Guide

Curator Resources

A Code of Ethics for Curators
by American Association for Museums

Interpretation
from the Small Museum Toolkit, eds. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Stacy Klingler

Interpretive Voice
by Jennifer Locke
Decolonial Strategies for Art History
by Amber Hickey and Ana Tuazon
An Advocate for Everything: Exploring Exhibit Development Models
by Janet A. Kamien

Examples of Exhibition Proposals/Scripts

Bauhaus at Bryn Mawr Script (Summer 2019)

All-Over Design: Lockwood de Forest between Ahmedabad and Bryn Mawr Script (Summer 2019)

Who Built Bryn Mawr? Script (Phase 1, Fall 2020)

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