What are some of your favourite stories in the museum? In addition, we’re doing a lot of work to find the small stories hidden in the big ones, and to teach our visitors how to read these “hidden” stories.įor example, looking at a big picture of a royal family in a garden seems to only show the royal family, but it also tells you that there were gardeners working on the gardens, painters making the paintings, weavers and seamstresses making the clothes, and jewelers and artisans making the jewelry. When you start to read deeper into the objects in a “big picture” exhibition, there are so many smaller stories hidden inside of them!
It’s becoming more common as museums have come to realize that a museum without people is just a dusty warehouse. People need to see their stories reflected in the museum in order for it to be interesting and relatable.Īt the ROM, we will often have two special exhibitions running at the same time: a big “blockbuster” exhibition to tell the big picture stories, and a smaller exhibition to tell smaller, more personal stories.
Museums often tell “big picture” stories about civilizations and history. How common is it for museums to tell smaller stories like The Family Camera?
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