Exhibition Media Design For Visually Impaired In Bangkok Local Museum

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the design course of exhibition media for visually impaired people in BMA Local Museum in which Trok Khao Mao Local Museum is the area of study. This research is qualitative research. Research population are 3 sampling groups; the key-informants group, the practitioner group and the related person group. Consisting of professionals of museum and exhibitions design, experts blindness and the visually impaired. Instrument used was interview with open-end question and participant observation. Data was analyzed by triangulation to find the design course of suitable media and take the works are designed to assess the population again.

The findings revealed that 1) art objects in the design course of exhibition media for visually impaired people consisted of: 1.1) Pictogram in which imitating from nature, reducing details and applying line and picture in design will help increase perception. 1.2) Interactive flip chart will help enhance experience from reading; audio media and QR Code also help increase learning experience of exhibition contents with normal reading. 2) Content is about Khao Mao (roasted flattened sticky rice) which is the feature of this local museum along with learning method of visually impaired people to interact with exhibition media to create discovery learning, this will help gaining more experience than just reading. In conclusion, the design course of exhibition media for visually impaired people needs to integrate the use of other senses in learning such as tactile sound and smell and most importantly, it should encourage the visually impaired people to self- practice for their best understanding.