The Benefit of the people – The Choice of the people?
Design of exhibition about the election of a successor to the Swedish Throne in 1810. The exhibition also highlighted social implications and was desigend to be used by pupils and museum educators in Social science classes. A major historical exhibition with several distinctively different parts.
The exhibition spaces ranged from dark and evocative segments to parts of the exhibition which were more clearly lit, with a factual focus.
A specific request from the manager of the exhibition project was that the exhibition design should allow for workshops for groups of pupils within the exhibition space.
Based on a chronological presentation, with variation in how the visitor was addressed -
the exhibition structure displayed objects and images interchanged throughout the exhibition with contemporary displays of interiors.
The exhibition also higlighted social implications of the course of events and was extensively used by pupils and museum educators in Social science classes.
