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"If a picture paints a thousand words", you can get 2,000 if your exhibit is
bi-lingual!
Visitors don't sort themselves naturally by language and so we have both
texts on the exhibit. We use minimal words for the instructions and colour
code them so that our younger visitors don't have to work too hard to find
which label they can actually read.
Good Luck
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> From: Regan Forrest <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Informal Science Education Network
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> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:43:10 +0100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: languages and traveling exhibits
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> Hi Charity,
>
> I think the way this is usually resolved is to design the text panels so
> that they are easily removed and replaced (under clear acrylic panels
> that can be unscrewed, for instance) Panels are created using a simple
> graphic design template into which text of any language can be provided
> and then printed, ready for inserting behind the acrylic or whatever.
>
> That way prospective renters of the exhibit can produce labels in
> whatever language they want.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Ms Regan Forrest
> Senior Consultant (Interpretation)
> Haley Sharpe Design
> Leicester, UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Informal Science Education Network
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> Subject: languages and traveling exhibits
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> We are currently working on a traveling exhibition that we plan to
> travel to multiple countries around the world.
>
> I was wondering if you have traveling exhibitions that tour
> internationally and how you deal with language in exhibit elements. Is
> it best to make interactives and text panels bilingual or is it safe to
> create an exhibit only in English? If we make them bilingual, what two
> languages are best to use?
>
>
>
> I have heard that some places deal with this issue by creating multiple
> versions of a single exhibit to send to different regions of the world.
> However, this may not be possible for us. Any suggestions??
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charity
>
>
>
> Charity Counts
>
> Int'l Traveling Exhibits Manager
>
> The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
>
> 3000 N. Meridian St.
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> Indianapolis, IN 46208
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> 317.704.3520
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