11.05.2007
Hospital Voices - stories from Nightingale to now opens today at the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital, London.
DOT have designed and produced the cross-media exhibition working closely with the Museum team to create a showcase for a huge variety of interviews with nurses and patients at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals since 1930 to the present.
The museum combines traditional print displays with a new collection of objects ranging from examples of uniform to a pair of silver trainers worn by Gill Hicks – a victim of the 7th of July London Bombings who lost both her legs in the attack, and learned to walk again in time for her wedding with the help of the staff at St Thomas'.
The exhibition features more than 130 audio clips from 50 interviewees including former cabinet minister Tony Benn and newscaster Johnathon Dimbleby, collected over a period of six months, and made accessible to many visitors simultaneously via innovative cost-effective listening posts that use regular PDAs to deliver the touchscreen-driven audio applications.
The DOT team have designed, produced and installed every aspect of the exhibition from visual identity to promotional literature, working with the audio team at Kingston University, video maker Sam Lawlor and photgrapher Victoria Lush.
A kiosk at the exhibition will encourage visitors to share their own stories old and new so the Museum can continuously build on the oral history collection.
The exhibition is open until December 23rd 2007 at
Florence Nightingale Museum
St Thomas' Hospital
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1
More details on the museum web site
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