Concepts

EXPOSITUM develops scientific, media and mediation concepts for exhibitions, interactive exhibits and multimedia. Strategic preparation of PR-events is also offered.

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, permanent exhibition "The Human Being", Topic Sexuality
project management A. Klein

The following basic rules for concept development have been proved successfully:

The strict imperative of the exhibition producers: carry out your actions in a way that the content and messages of the exhibition would also make sense to you, if you were in the position of an unsuspecting visitor without any previous knowledge.

Authentic exhibits, models, multimedia, texts, charts and design, display cases, architecture and lighting form a media unity in connection with the exhibition. The single components of this media unity are related to each other; they explain, intensify and modulate.

The museum exhibition is a liberal medium which shouldn't dictate. In comparison to a book, it gives the visitor the advantage that he or she can put together his or her own adventure. This, however, requires lucidity in the spacial and contextual structure.

Exhibitions deal with a topic only in a fragmentary, not exhaustive way. Because they have to consider the limited time of visitors, the information density of an exhibition is, for instance, smaller than that of a book. One shouldn' t want to say too much. That is why having the courage to leave out information, is one of the greatest virtues of an exhibition producer.

The museum exhibition is a medium of the exemplary. It can explain general connections by using vivid examples. There are topics less suitable for an exhibition (e.g. transcendental philosophy and elementary particle physics). On the other hand, there are topics which, due to a surplus in their visual perspectives, demand limitations (e.g. steam engines).

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