An Exhibit in Omeka is a digital version of a museum exhibit. Omeka Exhibits include:
Familiarize yourself with how Omeka Exhibits are built and try setting up a practice Exhibit with placeholder content. Your familiarity with Omeka Exhibit structures will help you think through how to best organize and present your actual Exhibit. When you are comfortable with Omeka, consider the below ideas for conceptualizing and planning your actual Exhibit.
Start your Exhibit development process by thinking through the following prompts:
Plan your Exhibit however it best works for you. Try one of these methods if helpful, or use whatever planning and design processes you typically use.
The Library has developed an Omeka Exhibit Planning Worksheet with detailed prompts using Omeka's structures and design options. The worksheet is in google docs, so to use the worksheet, copy it to your own google drive or download it. The prompts in this worksheet can be a useful resource for you even if you don't use worksheet.
Planning your Exhibit visually is another option. A visual plan could help you see how all of the pieces fit together. You can use a visual plan as an overview of your exhibit along with more detailed information in the worksheet or a separate planning document. Or, you can do most of your planning in a visual space, then add your essay(s), text, and other details directly into your Omeka Exhibit as you go.
There are many options for visual Exhibit planning, from simple to complex. Here are some ideas:
You'll need to add all of your Items to Omeka before you start building your Exhibit. As you create your Exhibit, you'll only be able to include artifacts that you've already added to Omeka as Items. The "Items" tab on this guide has instructions for adding Items to Omeka.
When you add an artifact to an exhibit you will need to add a caption for that artifact. This should contain basic citation information in a reader-friendly format.
Example caption format:
["Title of Artifact", hyperlinked] by [Creator of artifact], [Date], from [Name of source, hyperlinked], [Creative Commons information if relevant, hyperlinked]. [Brief description if helpful].
Example from FCA-WA:
"Lavender Law Sign" by Lavender Rights Project, 2019 from the Feminist Community Archive of Washington, CC-by-NC. Sign hanging in front lobby of Lavender Rights Project.
To add an exhibit in Omeka, log in to your Omeka site and follow these steps:
To Add an Exhibit Page in Omeka, log in to your site and follow these steps:
The format should be as follows: [Title] by [Creator], [Date], [Creative Commons information if available, i.e. CC BY-NC]. From [Name of Archive with embedded link to item].
Use the format: "My exhibit title" by "My name/pseudonymm/anonymous."
If there are multiple exhibits for your theme, separate your information from others with a vertical bar " | ". It would look like this: "My exhibit title" by "My name/pseudonym/anonymous" | "My exhibit title" by "My name/pseudonym/anonymous"