When I worked at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, I created a number of displays for their permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. One of the most ambitious was a show that ran along the whole length of their 75+ foot back wall. It was a collaboration with the BC society for Children’s Writers and Illustrators featured a children’s reading area and many display cases full of the Beaty’s permanent collection of interesting animals.
Every ten feet or so, a large wall-hanging accompanied a themed case. Works by Canadian writers and illustrators were hung along the way, interspersed with collection pieces and write-ups.
There were so many individual pieces in the show that we had to develop a system for automatically populating didactic panels.
It was fascinating to combine narratives of the featured writers with the Beaty’s extensive collection of animals and plants.
