Storytelling Exhibitions

<p><i>Storytelling Exhibitions</i> describes the role and practice of modern 'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators designers artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories through exhibition design. <p/>Exhibition designer and educator Philip Hughes shows how contemporary tools and technologies - digital reconstruction 3D scanning and digital archives - interweave with traditional forms of informing displaying and promoting to create powerful narrative spaces. <p/>Whether telling stories of politics trends society war science or history <i>Storytelling Exhibitions</i> provides inspiration and guidance on designing installations which change the way we think. <p/> Examples included from: <p/>Te Papa Wellington New Zealand<br>National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington USA<br>Weltmuseum Wien Austria<br>Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History US<br>Lascaux: Centre International de l'Art Pariétal in Montignac France<br>Stapferhaus Lenzburg Switizerland<br>Micropia Amsterdam Netherlands<br>...and many more</p>