An audio guide for the museum’s permanent exhibition of the 17 miniature rooms collected by businesswoman, art collector and philanthropist Helena Rubinstein.
Like the exhibition, the audio guide travels through time and space:
Visitors are transported from their 21th century museum visit to cooking in a 19th century Austrian kitchen, painting in a Parisian attic, and much more.
The audio guide contains three episodes and seven short segments about specific items in the rooms.
Designed for everyone but aimed especially at younger visitors, the guide was made in collaboration with children. It was essential to me to visit the exhibition with kids and hear their immediate, authentic responses to the displays. Their questions paved the way to the content of the episodes and showed me the boundaries between what the curators and myself found intriguing and important, and what the kids wanted to know.
As a result, the episodes explore a broad range of topics: what a miniature is and what it was made for; the amount of plastic in our world and its side effects; what people did before sewage systems; and what we would choose to depict if we were to create miniatures of our own homes – and would they be interesting for people in the future?
Exhibition curators: Galit Landau Epstein and Sophia Berry Lifschitz
Concept, researcher, writer and narrator: Gil Markovitz
Producer: Orit Sabag
Recordings: Eyal Shindler
Sound design and editing: Assaf Rapaport
Images: Margarita Perlin, Elad Sarig
Made for and in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
