MuseumExhibitions Blog
AC/DC - exhibition setup
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 1 month ago
The following photo gallery contains a range of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography of the setup of the AC/DC exhibition held at the Western Australian Museum:
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/galleries/acdc-hdr-exhibition-photography
Accidental Monsters of Meaning - coming to Perth
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 1 years ago
Aimee Smith transforms the Western Australian Museum into a living environment of dancing bodies. This trailer has been produced to give a taster her upcoming exhibition.
Accidental Monsters of Meaning is showing at the Western Australian Museum – Perth from 25 March to 3 April 2011, 10am to 2pm weekdays and 12pm – 4pm on weekends.
Farewell Pompeii – Howdy Menagerie
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 2 years ago
The exhibition department always get to work on the cool stuff in the museum. After A Day in Pompeii exhibition closed to the public it was time for us to break it down. That included working with conservators and registrars to pack up and crate the objects ready for Singapore.
- A Day in Pompeii
- Image from WA Museum
- Image copyright of WA Museum
Gold from the vault
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 2 years ago
One of our best kept secrets lies under the WA Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder site. The recently refurbished gold vault provides the first glimpse of things to come with the redevelopment of the mezzanine area due to open early December 2010. Once again our talented exhibition designers used a mixture of application programs to design the layout and graphics for the fit-out. The objects were carefully propped in a secret location by the amazing Shaun Chambers after a new lighting system was installed to enhance the display.
ACDC: Australia’s Family Jewels exhibition design
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 2 years ago
The Exhibition Design team use some very expensive state-of-the-art software to design exhibitions on the OS X platform. One application called Google Sketchup© is a free download that everyone can use. We recommend downloading the software and drawing up your house. We have drawn up the Perth Museum in three dimensions using this software and you can see it on Google Earth©. This movie shows the layout of the ACDC: Australia’s Family Jewels exhibition that opened in Melbourne last year.
Nick Cave - the exhibition set-up
0 MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 2 years ago
This video shows the WA Museum's exhibition and design installation team setting-up Nick Cave - the exhibition which showed at the Western Australian Museum - Perth from May 23 - July 19 2009. The Victorian Art Centre curated and designed this exhibition. This video is a time lapse recording with one frame taken every 72 seconds over a five day period.
This film was recorded in late May 2009 by the talented and famous Julian Featherston of Two Feathers.