Your questions answered: who edits museum exhibit text?
May 16, 2008 Your questions answeredIf you have questions about the Museum of London, Museum in Docklands, LAARC, or museum and archaeology jobs, I’ll do my best to get answers for you. You can leave questions in comments or via the email contact form.
Previously, someone asked “who edits museum exhibit text?”.
The answer from Roz in the Department of Early London History and Collections was:
“The text is written by whichever curator(s) is/are responsible for the gallery or exhibition in question. Then various other people have a look at it - usually the Director of Public Programmes, Design and Exhibitions (or the external designers, if used), and Community and Audience Development/Learning. For some temporary exhibitions, Outside Edge, for example, the text is written by an external curator, then edited in-house.”
You can see some of the other jobs curators do in these photo sets.
You might also be wondering which LAARC object was chosen as April’s Object of the Month - the answer is on the archaeology page.