The Exhibition

Follow Team Opal as we design and build our own exhibition for Museum Studies Leicester.

Team Opal are proud to present our exhibition, ‘A Taste of Home’. Our display is one of 8 celebrating the theme of Migration, Home and Belonging at the school of Museum Studies Leicester. We decided to focus on the importance of food reminding you of home.

We transformed our standard black exhibition case into a kitchen cabinet. We filled it with food that reminded us of home as well as our object, the botija (see research tab for more info).

Next to the case we tried to create the aura of a kitchen. We used gingham to create the illusion of a table and hung utensils from the wall. We also incorporated a suitcase, a connotation for the use of our object, the botija. We used this as an interactive where people could draw or right what food reminds them of home. 

We also used an Ipad, which we placed in a picture frame to look homely. This was another interactive where people could click on a map and hear our stories about food.

We are extremely proud of what we have created and hope that other people will enjoy the messages of food and home. A big thank you to our digital helpers Maria Wilhelmy and George Erfesoglou, you enabled us to add an extra layer of detail to our work. 

Opal and Out.

Installation

Follow Team Opal as we design and build our own exhibition for Museum Studies Leicester.

For the past two days we have been busy installing and organising our exhibition. Yesterday we concentrated mainly on preparing the items we were using to dress our case and also printing handouts and interactives.

We decided to physically stamp the back of our ‘passport’ handouts to give the impression of having travelled to our exhibition.

We also started to transform our case with the use of wood-effect vinyl. This was an activity that took a lot of patients but we think it looks very effective.

Today was the big day for installing. We had a number of things that we needed drilling into the wall so we thought this would be a good place to start. Alan helped us to install the shelf and our hook, and things started to come together from there.

We then dressed our case and installed our Botija (for more info see the Research tab above).

We also decorated the interactive area and secured our text panels onto the wall.

Now we are all set for the opening on Friday the 10^th of February. If you cannot come along keep your eyes peeled on this blog as we will be posting photos of the finished display after the opening. For now enjoy this photo of us eating celebratory ice-cream instead.

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Weekly Round Up 3

Follow Team Opal as we design and build our own exhibition for Museum Studies Leicester.

This week we have tried to tie everything together ready for our exhibition opening on Friday the 10^th of February. We focused mainly on practical elements such as ordering and buying things in order to dress the case. On Tuesday we also sent our final designs of the text off to be printed – how exciting!

We also finished designing our hand-outs and posters, both of which come equipped with QR codes that take the viewer directly to our blog for more information. A passport design was used so that people can ‘travel’ to our blog. We felt that this was a clever way of incorporating the exhibition theme into our marketing. Our digital manager has also been working on our exhibition interactive, where people can listen to our stories about what food reminds us of home.

Overall, it has been another busy week but we cannot wait to see it all come together throughout the installation and finally the opening.

Opal and Out.