[BCMA] Exhibition Design and Installation course - Registration deadline is March 19, 2012

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Exhibition Design and Installation, on-campus at the University of Victoria

Dates:  April 16-21, 2012
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=HA488K
Since exhibitions are the public face of your museum they should inspire powerful visitor experiences that convey your institution's mission and philosophy. This intensive course examines planning, designing, fabricating, and installing interpretive exhibitions that encourage museum visitor's understanding, participation, and emotional engagement. Field work, team development and presentation of an exhibition design proposal, and layout of a showcase with an interactive element provide you with opportunities to build exhibition planning and design skills.

Through this course in exhibition design and installation, you will:

*         Become familiar with the history, background, and roles of interpretive planning in museum exhibitions.

*         Understand the complex design considerations that go into developing an engaging visitor experience in interpretive exhibitions.

*         Obtain practical knowledge of the exhibition design process by completing team based projects and an individual design proposal.

*         Expand your knowledge of design approaches, interpretation, techniques and appropriate uses of technology as they apply to exhibitions.

*         Increase your capacity to critically analyze, understand, and explain what makes a successful exhibition and begin to apply these skills.

*         Recognize some of the issues of conservation and design as they pertain to the installation of objects in interpretive exhibitions.

*         Acquire other technical skills such as the ability to create concept designs and  bubble diagrams.

Registration Deadline: March 19, 2012, late registrations accepted if space permits
Fee: CAD $681 (credit and non-credit options)
Instructor:  James Volkert, principal of Exhibition Associates, a museum exhibition development and facility planning firm, has developed and installed more than 350 museum exhibitions on a variety of subjects in the arts, sciences, and history. He has served as a consultant to museums nationally in the development of exhibitions, programs, and architectural development and has worked with museums in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Taiwan, Sweden, Uruguay, and Peru.

How to contact us
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria

Phone 250-721-6119
Fax 250-721-8774
Email crmcoord at uvic.ca<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca>
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