Chelmsford Museum

After visiting Chelmsford museum I was able to get a better idea as to how certain galleries display their items. The museum I went to had a large range of exhibits, displaying items from the wars, marconi, local art and many others, as well as providing many educational pieces about the county and this town. The museum is situated inside Oaklands House, which means it has a large amount of space. 

Some of the exhibition rooms had large windows that allowed plenty of light in. This meant that external lighting was not needed during the day. 

The room did have some spotlights on the ceiling for evening guests. It was hard to tell how effective these would be when I was there. We will have to ensure that there are enough lights at our exhibition, as the location doesn't have any natural lighting from one side.

This piece of art was interesting because it was placed against a wall in the middle of the room. It was used to break up the room to make it look less empty. The space we have for our exhibition is huge, so we will definitely need to put in things that will fill the space.

This room is the traditional exhibition room when I think of one. A room with white walls, a centre piece and pictures around the outside. We will have to assess the different types of work that people want to use in the exhibition.

The photos along the wall were all level in height and all used the same frame. We will need to consider this when choosing our theme. There will need to be continuity between the pieces of work to make sure that nothing looks out of place.

This was an interesting technique used. Items were displayed on the wall and they each had a different number on them. Underneath there was a chart explaining what each of the numbers are. This could be useful if we were displaying photographs on a board, the descriptions could be found below the artwork.

This image reminded me of the area that we will be using to display our work. Unfortunately there weren't really any exhibits in this area, apart from ones on the wall at the back. There is one on a table in the middle. We will have to use boards to display work that would usually be found on a wall.

All in all I thought it was a very useful visit to the museum. It was useful to go during the day I felt because we could see how the light was used (even though our exhibition will be in the evening, it will be Springtime to it won't be very dark). It was also useful to see the different techniques that are used to display the items. Hopefully once we have settles on a theme, we will start to get some more ideas for displaying specific types of work. 

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