Featured are the results of a nationwide competition in which museum professionals from a wide range of disciplines submitted writing samples that were then juried by a distinguished panel that included: This marketplace is meant to honor the special skills that the exhibit writer needs in order to create effective object labels, text panels, etc. But when all the planning is done, someone still has to sit down and write the copy.
Often exhibition writing occurs in the context of a cooperative, team approach to exhibit making: ideas are fleshed out, strategies are mapped out, designs are worked out. While museums use many strategies to communicate with their visitors, the most common method is also one of the most ancient: the written word.
