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of narrative exhibitions conceived with dense AV/IT systems has been widely understood as a synonym of openness, modernity as well as a way to increase access to collections and capitalize on a process of digitalization. On the basis
of three capital investments such as Chopin Museum, Museum of the History of Polish Jews and The Silesian Museum, it will be shown how design architecture of multimodal AV/IT systems helps to develop interesting, appealing, easy to maintain permanent exhibitions but also obtain remarkable amount of critical data for future processing and conclusions on efficiency of the systems and the content. On the basis of Chopin Museum and Museum of the History of Polish Jews it will be shown how we can improve quality of design understood as efficiency of learning as well as give insights to designers on how to improve exhibition design in order to convey a given message more effectively. Needless to say, well thought AV/IT systems can provide vital information for making the exhibition sustainable in social, material and financial terms. It is vital to show that by increasing awareness about possibilities which centrally managed IT/
AV systems can provide, museum managers can get constant feedback about their product as well as information about directions for necessary changes.
It is also vital to create a common vocabulary and tools in order to be able to share experiences and exchange ideas on future development. It has been clear from above mentioned experiences that sharing, critical observation of existing projects as well as re-shaping modes of collaboration with suppliers can help to design better exhibitions with multimodal components.
Alicja Knast
Received MA degree in musicology from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. Between 1995 and 2003 worked as an adiunct at National Museum, Poznań. Alicja Knast lectured at London Metropolitan University (2005-6) and worked as research assistant at University of Plymouth (2005-8). From January 2009 until 2011 played key role in new development of permanent exhibition at Chopin Museum where she was the curator. 2012 – 2014 CEO of the Core Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw on behalf of The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute. Since July 2014 the director of Silesian Museum in Katowice and Uppersilesian in Bytom. She was Research Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum in New York 2004-2005. Since 1998 she is a member of ICOM and its subcommittee International Committee of Museums and Collections of Musical Instruments as well as a member of Museums Association UK and Academy of Higher Education UK. Her research interests are focused on strategies of implicite learning, music perception and instrumentology. Currently her main area of professional activity is museum management, policies and design of architectures of multimodal systems for exhibitions. She was awarded in 2011 by Gustav, King of Sweden "Royal Order of the Polar Star” and in 2011 together with Migliore e Servetto prestigious Red Dot Award.
