#Exhibit Design

[thatdisasterauthor]

Wildland Firefighters Deserve Fun Children's Museum Exhibits Too!

Why do the structure crews get to have all the fun, huh? Go to just about any children's museum and you're likely to find a little fire station or a fire truck, probably with some fun but flimsy costumes, maybe a fake fire hose to haul around or a toy axe. There's probably a mural on the wall of a cartoon burning building, complete with dalmatian. And kids love it! So many kids fall in love with the idea of being a firefighter at those exhibits.

But not once have I seen or heard of a similar exhibit for wildland firefighters. Possibly this is because most people don't realize that wildland firefighters and structure firefighters are not the same thing. Which is all the more reason to have an exhibit about it for kids, honestly! Let's start the learning young about what wildland fire is, how to stay safe from it, and what wildland firefighters do via an interactive, playful exhibit!

Since I work as a wildland fire dispatcher and study disasters, and I've designed museum exhibits before at other jobs, I figured this was an "I'll just do it myself" sort of scenario. And thus, my little wildland exhibit was born!

The idea behind this exhibit is to create a simple, semi self-directed play area for ages ~4-8 themed around a wildland fire scenario of protecting a small cabin from an approaching wildfire. It would have three main play areas: the Velcro Forest, The Cabin, and the Firetruck Climber, and there would be simple signage sharing facts about what wildland firefighters do and how they are different from structure firefighters.

The murals throughout the exhibit would be detailed, showing the diverse terrain wildland crews can work in, and also some of the support they get from aircraft like helicopters and slurry bombers.

Play Area 1: Firetruck Climber

The firetruck climber would be modeled after a Type 4 wildland engine, simplified into a kid friendly structure. It would have working lights that are non-flashing and low light for sensory safety, and the lights could be turned on and off from within the cab. Inside the cab is a dashboard with a toy radio, moving wheel, and two seats. Along the side of the truck is an interactive panel of pump controls, and a series of cubbies to store the play gear in the exhibit just like real wildland firefighters store their gear in their trucks.

The play gear would include costume yellow shirts, green pants, and boots just like what wildland firefighters wear, with an explainer that they wear very different gear than structural firefighters and don't use any portable breathing systems. Other gear would include toy Pulaskis (the wildland specific type of axe), toy hoes and rakes, and toy chainsaws.

Play Area 2: The Velcro Forest

One of the main techniques for fighting a wildfire is removing the fuel it needs to burn, and that's what the velcro forest is all about. It is on the side of the exhibit closest to the fire (but the fire is not moving directly at it! You never work in front of a fire!). The trees are plastic covered foam blocks held together with velcro so they can easily be knocked down and then "cut" apart with the toy chainsaws. There are also moveable foam bushes on the ground.

The ground mural would include a strip of brown where anything on the forest floor had been scraped away to dirt, to represent the technique of cutting line.

Simple signage would explain the concept of removing fuel and cutting line to help stop the movement of dangerous fires.

Play Area 3: The Cabin

The third play area is the cabin you are trying to protect from the oncoming fire. This area would primarily be focused around the concept of defensible space and how a home can be protected by clearing away landscaping and removing burnable items from areas such as porches.

Gift Shop

To carry the learning outside the exhibit itself, I'd love to the gift shop carry things like children's books about wildfire (though there aren't a ton to choose from, sadly), toy wildland firetrucks, wildland fire kids costumes, things in that vein.

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So yes! Wildland firefighter based children's exhibit! I think it would be great fun, and serve as a good way to introduce children (and their parents) to the knowledge that wildland firefighters are very different than structure firefighters. Will this sort of exhibit ever actually exist? Who knows! But I sure think it should.

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[rodhunt]

Humayun's World Heritage Site Museum Illustrated Map Mural Exhibit

Rod Hunt was commissioned by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to design a huge and detailed illustrated map of the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site, Nizamuddin Basti and the Sunder Nursery for a permanent exhibit at the new Humayun World Heritage Site Museum in New Delhi. The aim of the map was to help visitors understand the world heritage site, its dense ensemble of medieval monuments and its immediate setting. Rod worked closely with Ratish Nanda CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to create a detailed an accurate representation of the architectural restoration and conservation of the historic tombs, monuments and wider site. This hugely complicated map illustration had to accurately depict the tombs and monuments architectural features down to the smallest detail. The final mural illustration is printed at 12m x 4.5m in size and is displayed in the vestibule gallery of the museum. 

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[curatorsday]

Monday, November 6, 2023

I’m working on a temporary exhibit in which I want to include flip panels. Well, the wall I’ll be installing the exhibit on is curved. Today, I made up an experimental flip panel to see if it’ll work. It does! I may try making a larger one too. I’m still working on the text and I like to have options.

[adrianaanderson]

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[drarchibaldpeppermd]

yearly reminder, the Met Gala is a fundraiser that serves as the primary source of funding for the Met's Costume Institute. the money that invitees pay for tickets and almost all other proceeds from the gala is charity that goes towards a museum collection which otherwise likely wouldn't exist. please support public and private funding for information institutions

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[garadinervi]

Giovanni Pintori, Schema frecce colore, (sketch), 1956 [Archivio privato Paolo Pintori. © Matteo Zarbo, Milano]

Exhibitions: Giovanni Pintori (1912-1999). Pubblicità come arte / Advertising as art, Curated by Chiara Gatti and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, m.a.x. museo, Centro Culturale Chiasso, Chiasso, October 7, 2024 – February 16, 2025 (then March 2, 2025); MAN – Museo d'Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, March 21 – June 15, 2025

Catalogue: Giovanni Pintori (1912-1999). Pubblicità come arte / Advertising as art, Edited by Chiara Gatti and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Texts by Chiara Gatti, Mario Piazza, Davide Cadeddu, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Luigi Sansone, Angela Madesani, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 2024

[twelvebooksstuff]

This is AMAZING 🤩

My talk about building a life-size Archaeopteryx.

[thesilicontribesman]

'Young Reindeer With Its Mother' Bone Carving, 'Ice Age Art Now' Exhibition, Cliffe Castle, Keighley, Yorkshire

Around 15,000 years ago, as winter turned to spring, feelings of hope perhaps inspired this superb, engraved drawing of a reindeer calf alongside its mother on bone.

La Madeleine Rockshelter, Dordogne, France

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Two masks of Richard David James AKA Aphex Twin at the opening of new exhibition "Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers" at The Design Museum on July 28, 2020 in London, England.

Photo by David M. Benett

[arcadebroke]

攻殻機動隊

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)

[vintagehomecollection]

Interior Design, 1988

[themadbutcher]

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