2007 Awards

We wish to recommend a commendation for this site, based on the attractive use of media, layering of interpretation, lots of interactivity with specific opportunities for families and children. Specific exhibits worked well, particularly, the talking heads, and there was a good variety of exhibit types. Text was quite good, easy to read and not too dense or intimidating. It looked like good value and was completed to very tight deadlines.

The reason we are not recommending it for an Award was that although the individual exhibit elements were generally very good, no overall thematic structure was apparent to us, i.e. we did not grasp any coherent idea(s) from the exhibit as a whole. There did not seem to be any logic to the exhibit layout and the key idea that Bath had a pivotal role in the development of the worlds’ postal system was not apparent at all – a significant failing. In spite of that, we feel this was a good effort in creating an entertaining and accessible exhibition which would readily appeal to its target audience. We were just not sure what they would come away with – we found it hard to define any key idea after our visit, although we could relate individual exhibits to subordinate details – we couldn’t see the wood for the trees!