For our first day of enrichment, we got given a sheet of information to go to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery which is based within the Royal Pavilion Gardens. At this gallery there were many different categories such as Mr Wiellett’s Popular Pottery, Art Galleries, Fashion and Style, but the one category of my trip was to look upon the Local History department.
This department was split into two different rooms, but both rooms had different layouts, this was good because when you had finished in one room you expected it to be similar but when you walk into the other room the layout brings a relief to yourself because of the new interests of different topics that is shown.
Here is a map of the ground floor and upper floor and within this map you will be able to see whereabouts I went around the exhibition.
The first room that I went in was number 8 on the ground floor and the main aspect was about the effects that happened to Brighton during the Second World War. Walking into the room, you immediately feel a huge atmosphere of devastation and lost tension due to the documentary images hung up on the wall in a shadowed room. The way the curator has cleverly placed the documenting images side by side shows you that he/she has thought about how the images would feel towards the viewer when they enter the room.
Inside the shadowed room there was an audio playing on a television screen and this really complimented the documentary images on the wall. In the audio it has someone commentating over the top of various film clips and images of times at war. This part of displaying photographs is very different but also a very creative and interesting way. There was also 2 big images as you pass to go view more of the exhibition and they really catch you eye to the shocking content that these images had in them. One of these images showed a man standing next to a lamppost wearing a gasmask and by him wearing the gasmask the conditions at the time the image was taken shows that they were unrealistic.
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| Gasmask man image |
Throughout both rooms in the exhibition of Local History, there was many cabinets filled with artifacts from the Second World War and these made the feeling of tension shiver straight through your back bone. This was a great way of showing the exhibition off, but some ways of showing off the exhibition wasn’t very professional in my opinion in the way that the curator had blocked the mounted photographs partially, which didn’t give the full impact of the images that could have come out. A way that the curator could have improved his/her exhibition is by the way that none of the images were blocked and all the images were fully visible.
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| Example of blocked image |
The way that the curator had mounted all the images up on the wall was on white foam. I thought that this looked very professional because if any of these images were mounted in frames the whole outlook on that part of the exhibition would look out of place and the history behind these images would be blocked out by the modernisation of the frames. The curator had added printed text onto the walls, and these texts were quotes that people had on them certain pictures and they were quotes from people during the 1900’s. This was good because this showed the emotion of people at the time of when the images were taken and it comes across really effective and the story of people’s lives during one of the worst wars that has been known to man.
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| Example of artefacts |
In the other room of Local History, the room was filled with props that really stuck out at you and which drag your attention more towards them. There was a huge image of many different pictures put together and the way that the curator has done this is very clever because he/she has made the image’s characteristics blown so that no caption was needed to explain the photograph.
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| One of the outfit within the Fashion and Style room |
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| Example of framed paintings within the At Gallery room |
I also had a look around different parts of the gallery and museum and the different room that I also enjoyed was the Art Gallery and the Fashion and Style rooms. The Art and Gallery room was very interesting because all the paintings were all mounted up in golden frames that made the paintings look older and special to look at .The Fashion and Style room was a very creative room because the curator had put descriptions next to all pieces of artwork shown, and the information was very interesting because many of the outfits had been worn by some very know celebrities at the time.
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