Photo: City of Villejuif, Xiwen Wang
- Duration
- Depending on the scale of the exhibition
- Format
- Complete exhibition, texts and visuals, or curatorial support
- Languages
- French, English
- Audience
- Museums, media libraries, libraries, cultural centres, foundations
- Category
- In person
What the service aims to do
- Design an accessible and rigorous exhibition for your audiences.
- Give science a place in your cultural programme.
- Build a coherent narrative route around a scientific theme.
- Make your venue more attractive and diversify your audiences.
- Support your team with curation, outreach and promotion.
In practice
The exhibition rests on rigorous curation, accessible storytelling and suitable visuals, so that families, school groups and curious visitors can follow the route without any prior knowledge.
Cortex can tackle a new theme, enrich an existing exhibition or create something new for your programme. Workshops, talks and audio or video material can complement the exhibition.
How we work
- Analysis of the scientific theme and definition of the cultural objectives.
- Development of the narrative route and the main sections of the exhibition.
- Writing the interpretive texts: panels, labels, booklets, educational materials.
- Creation of the visual content: illustrations, diagrams, infographics.
- Collaboration with your teams on the exhibition design, if you wish.
- Scientific validation of the content.
- Support with setting up, installation and communication.
Who is involved
- Researchers and science communicators, depending on the themes.
- Illustrators and layout designers.
- Specialists in cultural outreach.
- Game designers.
- A film director and a sound engineer.
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