Exploring Virtual Art Exhibitions: Scavenger Hunt and Task

It’s not possible to visit museums and galleries in person at the moment, but this task offers your students a chance to gather some valuable research by taking a virtual tour of London’s “Museum of Brands”.
A link to the online exhibition is provided in the PDF.

Upon “virtually” arriving at the exhibition, your students should complete A Scavenger Hunt, which has a number of questions such as:

• How would you describe the colours in the exhibition? Eg. neutral, bright, retro, flesh
• Does the exhibition remind you of anything else – what?

Later, students are asked to reflect on their findings and create a proposal for an artwork in response to what they have seen. An example is provided.

The exhibition contains lots of branding, packaging and retro advertisements from days gone by. This task would be ideal for a Graphics class, and was originally created for an Art Foundation group who were working on a week-long Typography project.
It’s nice to see what students come up with when they try to apply their findings at the exhibition to their wider projects and ideas, but this task also works well as a standalone task to shake things up a bt :-)

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You could stretch this task out by getting your students to actually make the work after creating their proposal. Since the exhibition contains lots of packaging and branding, they could make use of food packaging and other throwaway materials that they might have easy access to in their home environment.