Summary
Exhibition label for the Orangutan display at Museum of Victoria, circa 1985.
Physical Description
Rectangular label, vertical, single-sided with black printed on metal sheet. Upper and lower case TNR font with top and bottom border line. Remnants of adhesive still on back.
Significance
The labels in the Historic Exhibition Labels Collection illustrate the changing styles in didactic interpretation, aesthetics and approaches to audience engagement throughout the history of Museums Victoria. From the earliest days of the National Museum of Victoria in the mid 1800s through the various incarnations of the Applied Sciences collection through to the amalgamation of all the branches into Museums Victoria, the labels chart a course through the changes in audience needs and desires in Victoria and across the museums' various sites. There are beautiful examples of hand written nineteenth century labels, some examples of extremely long didactic panels from the early twentieth century, and rare and unusual fonts in the mid twentieth century. The collection also illustrates the transition from hand-written labels to the use of typewriters, then lettera set and ultimately printed labels, culminating in the large format digital print room being introduced at Melbourne Museum in 2000.
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Collecting Areas
Museum History, Information & Communication, Public Life & Institutions
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Inscriptions
ORANGUTANS 3 / Pongo pygmaeus / Orangutans are found in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra. They are mainly arboreal, and on the ground their gait is quite clumsy. They feed mostly on fruit, but add other plants, shellfish, eggs and insects to their diet. Orangutans live singly or in pairs, and rarely in small groups. Their reproductive rate is low, females giving birth to a single young every four years. They become mature at 10 years of age and live to about 25 years. / Cat. Nos. 3114, 44747, 44748, 56043, 55747, 54830, 54831.
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Object Dimensions
203 mm (Width), 3 mm (Depth), 243 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Exhibitions, Mammals, Museum Display Panels, Museum Exhibitions, Museums