The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet and the Politics of Possession Digital Exhibition Guide

FAIN: MT-284790-22

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA 90036-4504)
Tomas Garcia (Project Director: June 2021 to November 2022)
Lisa Mark (Project Director: November 2022 to July 2023)
John Rice (Project Director: July 2023 to present)
Alexander Kwong (Co Project Director: November 2022 to December 2022)

Prototyping of a pilot digital interpretive guide to accompany the temporary exhibition The World Made Wondrous and serve as proof-of-concept for future exhibitions.

LACMA requests a NEH Digital Projects for the Public grant to develop a prototype for an interactive, digital Exhibition Guide to accompany The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet and the Politics of Possession, a temporary exhibition scheduled to be on view from June 2023 to January 2024. The World Made Wondrous assembles a range of media from LACMA’s permanent collection and select loans into a collector’s cabinet to interrogate the politics of possession in the practice of collecting in early modern Europe. The Exhibition Guide will invite visitors to reconsider why the museum exists as we know it today and why museums collect the objects they do. The goal of the project is to create a proof of concept that encourages interaction and exploration by bringing multiple voices into the in-gallery experience to deepen public understanding of the humanities-based themes explored in LACMA’s new building for its permanent collection, scheduled to open in 2024.

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