Meanings and messages : language guidelines for museum exhibitions

Abstract

An introductionExhibition texts and languageExhibitions are one of the major links between museums and the public. As communication devices, exhibitions make use of a wide variety of interpretive media - one of which is language in the form of exhibition texts. The text of an exhibition is only one of the elements that contributes to the overall messages of the exhibition, but the importance of its role is often overlooked. In most exhibitions the language of exhibition texts is the primary tool for creating meaning and communicating the museum's messages in an accessible way to a variety of audiences. For this reason it is important that museum staff understand the ways in which text and language function, and therefore how messages are constructed through the language of exhibition texts. n n

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