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I was out with a colleague from the Manchester Museum’s education team, Neil Dymond-Green, this morning to talk to pupils at St James’ Primary School about our new Ancient Worlds displays.
When I walked in my office there was a thick, new book on my desk still inside its wrapper and a pithy message on the outside from Jeff Horsley saying ‘The exhibition looks fantastic’.
I opened New Exhibition Design/Neue Ausstellungs Gestaltung 02 suspecting it was something to do with the Lindow Man exhibition. It’s always nice to open a brand new book, with that peculiar fresh smell of printing but even more of a thrill to find some rather nice images of Lindow Man displays taken by former colleague Bryony Bond.
There’s only a couple of short paragraphs by way of text. The book focuses on exhibition design so it’s what it looked like that’s important.
There are three pages of tasteful shots showing the innovative shelving, the biographies of the contributors and visitors interacting with the various sections. It’s all very atmospheric and brings back happy memories of the Lindow Man exhibition.
From now on I won’t have to scrabble about looking for images on the shared drive. I can simply refer them to this beautiful and thought-provoking publication. Thanks to Jeff for dropping this off.
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