Creating a temporary exhibition: My experience as a placement student at Culture Syndicates
13th December 2018 In Exploring History , Training And Employability Culture Syndicates’ Temporary Exhibition Service allows heritage and arts venues to borrow existing exhibitions and share their own, offering a cost-effective, convenient way to display collections. As part of my placement at Culture Syndicates, I created an exhibition for this service on how ways of displaying and producing texts have changed over the centuries. In this post, I’m going to explain the process of creating an exhibition. A novel history Did you know that medieval manuscripts were so valuable that their owners would write curses in them and chain them to walls, in order to protect them from thieves? Or that of the top ten best-selling books ever in the United Kingdom, seven are from the Harry Potter series? Neither did I, until I started conducting research for this exhibition. From the replacement of scrolls by books, to the invention of the printing press, to the use of st...