Exhibition & Experience Writer
The words that make spaces speak
Museums, science centres, brand spaces, public art and exhibitions are all written: the wall texts, the guides, the narrative arc you walk through. It marries writing with space and culture, and rewards a creative who can make the complex clear and the dry alive. A quietly wonderful niche for a senior wordsmith.
What you already bring
Write
Concretize
Tell
Summarize
Visualize
Idea development
Storytelling
Communication
Cultural literacy
Creativity
Arts
Culture
HistoryThe gap
Exhibition and interpretive craft: writing for space and movement, accessibility and reading levels, working with curators, designers and scenographers, and the cultural-institution world's rhythms and funding.
How to get there
- Study interpretive writing, which has its own literature and standards, and critique exhibitions you visit.
- Build a sample: rewrite the texts of an exhibition you know into something sharper and more human.
- Get into the network through cultural institutions, exhibition designers and experience agencies.
Your first move
Rewrite the wall texts of one exhibition you have seen, and show the before and after.
In Stockholm
Stockholm is dense with museums and cultural institutions (Nationalmuseum, Tekniska, Vasa, Fotografiska, ArkDes) plus the exhibition-design studios and experience agencies that serve them and brands.
