Scarborough Art Gallery Visit

The display for Remember Scarborough at the Scarborough Art Gallery consists of four separate rooms (1 downstairs, 3 Upstairs).

The ground floor room is used as an introduction to the whole gallery including brief information, a projector with interviews playing, paintings of the battle and a folder containing all of the written information throughout the rest of the exhibit. The inclusion of the folder seems to be there to compensate for any visitors that can't access the rest of the exhibit, but it comes across as very dull and uninteresting compared to what the exhibit actually has on offer to viewers.

The three rooms that are located upstairs are split into three sections, before the attack, during the attack and after the attack. This is what inspired us to build our installation with a similair capability to see the event over time instead of at one point in time. This really helps to build perspective and give the viewers an overall broader view on the events and lasting effects that came as a result of the attack.

The majority of the installation is reading information located on the walls around the exhibit. The information starts with the important and bulk of the information, but offers more insight as the reader continues to read on. This works effectively as readers who just want to know the main information are provided with it before they lose interest, but if the reader desires more information, they can read on. The huge amount of text how ever does become a little over whelming towards the third room.

There are several displays and a map of scarborough that has a narration of the bombing which shows where the bombs hit, but overall there aren't many visual displays on offer.

The exhibit does a fantastic job of showing the attack in multiple lights. For example, showing scarborough during the bombing and the effect it had, but also showing the german side to the story and providing reasons as to why the attack occurred in the first place. This really makes the exhibit stand out and greatly helps give a huge understanding on the attack, the reasons for it and the lasting effects.

The combination of the large amount of text, the slight lack of interactive and visual displays and the brilliant perspective the exhibit gives on both sides and the time zones is what has inspired our installation plan and what we decided to include within it.