Curators' use of information maps

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Curating museums, galleries and exhibitions involves organizing a rotation of exhibits, planning new galleries and mounting campaigns to bring works on display to the public’s notice. These institutions are also tasked with formal and informal public education, often mounting lectures, demonstrations and ‘exploratorium’ galleries.

These are activities that can benefit from the use of mind maps for their creative vigor, and concept maps for their rigor.

Gathering information on exhibits and the environment in which they may originally have been used or created will be demanding. Organizing it to ensure that it can be found again when needed takes method and care. Again mind maps can be a useful and stimulating way of doing this. See managing information with mind maps.

Organizing information about experts in the fields in which the institution operates and linking this to sections of the mind map for galleries can speed up research and writing.

Display cards for exhibits must be carefully and accurately written, and this is an area where using concept maps can be beneficial.

The planning of a special event in an art gallery or museum, for example, an overseas loan exhibit, can be aided by mind maps. So can public lectures and educational presentations. See events planning with mind maps.

In addition to the above, curators have many of the common needs of any large institution or business. These are dealt with in WikIT under their more general headings, with business uses of mind maps being a suitable starting point.

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