The Riddle of Exhibit Design: Essential Yet Overlooked

Appendix A reviews how exhibition design has figured in scholarly literature in museum studies, design history, design thinking, and design anthropology, finding that it largely has been treated as invisible. These design-related fields have mostly overlooked the entwined workings of exhibit design and communication. The appendix considers some possible explanations for the oversight and underlines the significance of paying attention to exhibit design as central to the dynamic encounters and interactions between exhibitions and visitors.