Exhibition: "Volt(a) : de l'étincelle à la pile" (Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, 23 January - 13 May 2001)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from RETE. For information about the exhibition, see its website at: http://web.cnam.fr/museum/pages/actu/volta.html Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:37:05 EST From: COFFEEN@aol.com Subject: Remarkable exhibition! To: Rete <rete@mhs.ox.ac.uk> Paolo Brenni recently announced to rete the exhibition on Volta, at the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris. We were privileged to attend the opening this week, and were amazed at the wonderful objects and the remarkable innovative display techniques. The exhibit is sensational! Each room you enter gives the unexpected. The combination of lighting, mounting, and placement of the viewer makes you "wake up" and really see the objects. We loved the dark room with wonderful objects held out on long arms in dramatic light beams. We loved the big glass table with objects set so you can just reach out and touch them -- yet mounted so far away you cannot really touch them. And we loved the whole room of objects you walk on -- that gives a whole new attitude toward museum displays. We saw a room-size early electrostatic machine, a large wooden figure whose head is the "cork" of a Volta pistol, a wonderful painting of an early scientific "cabinet de curiosites," and many many other intriguing objects. Congratulations to the new revived museum, to Paolo, and to all who created this. David & Yola Coffeen Tesseract --- End Forwarded Message ---