BS: Do you have any ideas about how the exhibits should be displayed?
DS: In terms of exhibits on their own? In terms of when they're?
BS: Together, or.
DS: Yeah we do. We do think about those issues but probably not as much as - as much as we could.
BS: I'm thinking back particularly to I remember you saying in the meeting that=
DS: =Lighting. I remember that as well.
BS: Yeah.
DS: I do - yeah - I do think about those, me and Darren have had long discussions about things like that as well. Because it's funny because Techniquest has quite a strong look to it you go in, lots of brightly coloured exhibits. The - on purpose they've done it so that the the surroundings are quite neutral you know, white walls and grey carpet, so you very much focus on the exhibits which is a nice way of doing it. But it's, I think probably not the usual way that science centres do it and, and most science centres that I've been to are much more theatrical, shall we say and - we do get the chance to be a lot more theatrical in the science theatre. But we don't do it so much with our exhibitions. I think I'd like to be but - at the moment we haven't - we haven't really moved into that. Maybe we will.
Yeah, things like lighting, I, I - very key to an exhibit working. because say you do a great exhibit could be amazing but if it's in strong sunlight and you can't see the effect properly - you - the whole design of the exhibit is just - doesn't matter how good it is cause it's not going to work. So I think, aspects like that obviously do come into it. And you know so, you're thinking should this be an exhibit that should be in the low light area? Does it need to have - shading or or does it need strong sunlight to to work. A lot of exhibits have issues like that.
Also noise. That's another issue. big, big problem with like the music exhibits. You want the visitor using the exhibit to be able to hear it loud and clear but you don't want anyone else - well you do want perhaps people within a certain range to be able to hear it because it attracts them but you don't want somebody on an exhibit next to it - not being able to hear their exhibit because they exhibit next door is making so much noise. And it's it's real- actually very big problem. And, so yeah, the environment that you're putting it in does, does have quite an impact.