With apologies to all Latin scholars but Google tells me that this means ‘All systems go’, which is certainly feels like the case for our up and coming show ‘Roman Empire: Power & People’. From a personal perspective it’s not often that you get to work on a major touring exhibition and it’s a real privilege to be able to work with material from the British Museum. As the lead museum for the tour we have the responsibility for the exhibition design and production and also first slot in the touring programme. It’s great to think that all the hard work and effort we have been putting into this will result in tens of thousands of people across the country having access to dozens of amazing objects rarely seen outside London.
As you can imagine with a project of this size there’s quite a few of us involved in its production. I personally enjoy the beginning of the exhibition process because that’s when we’re really able to get our creative juices flowing. In the cold light of the budget, however, some of the ideas we had were clearly wild imaginings but I am pleased to say that much of our original concept has made it to the drawing board and beyond.
I play several roles in the process but as a curator I am particularly responsible for developing and writing all the text. This was a bit of a challenge since 95% of what we are showing is from someone else’s collection, relates to the whole of the Roman Empire and is not themed around daily life! For me it’s been a great opportunity to step outside of my own collection comfort zone and get to grips with something new. Right now however I’m concentrating on some of the interactive elements we’re building in and at the moment that involves choosing which gods and goddesses to include for one of them….I wonder which one might smile the most kindly on me if they make the cut , or not if they don’t?
Will I cause ‘totus ratio deficiendi’……..which Google tells me is an ‘all systems failure’ - I hope not!
As you can imagine with a project of this size there’s quite a few of us involved in its production. I personally enjoy the beginning of the exhibition process because that’s when we’re really able to get our creative juices flowing. In the cold light of the budget, however, some of the ideas we had were clearly wild imaginings but I am pleased to say that much of our original concept has made it to the drawing board and beyond.
I play several roles in the process but as a curator I am particularly responsible for developing and writing all the text. This was a bit of a challenge since 95% of what we are showing is from someone else’s collection, relates to the whole of the Roman Empire and is not themed around daily life! For me it’s been a great opportunity to step outside of my own collection comfort zone and get to grips with something new. Right now however I’m concentrating on some of the interactive elements we’re building in and at the moment that involves choosing which gods and goddesses to include for one of them….I wonder which one might smile the most kindly on me if they make the cut , or not if they don’t?
Will I cause ‘totus ratio deficiendi’……..which Google tells me is an ‘all systems failure’ - I hope not!
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