We’ve also got some good extensions coming off with some photos and makes from the different investigations triggered by the mind map (don’t forget the trail maps on the other side too!):
Hugemongous mind map extensions
Tomorrow will be our last day of investigating, although I believe the HQ might stay in place for a while longer so you can come and have a look at the work done.
For Friday’s investigation we’ll be looking at how things might get put back together again if, in a museum with no assistants to make sure we all followed the rules, all the exhibits got all dismantled and jumbled up.
Will we be able to figure out what all the bits are? Will we know how things work? Will we be able to decipher that ancient instruction manual written in hieroglyphics? Join us between 11:00 and 1:00 and/or 2:00 and 4:00 to find out!
Today the MoR Inspectors made their own TOP SECRET trails around the museum and art gallery building. This was in response to the potential loss of guided tours if the staff went on strike.
TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET
The Inspectors were asked to decide what the 3 most awesome things in the whole building were – the things they would really want their friends to know about. If they had come straight up to the MoR headquarters without looking around the museum first then we equipped them with a clipboard and sent them out on a reconnaissance mission.
We gave everyone a special map of the building and asked them to draw on them the journey people should make from the MoR HQ in order to see the cool things.
TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET
The results were ace with some great selections and ways of showing them on the maps. In order to keep the maps TOP SECRET we put them up at the back of the HQ so only MoR Inspectors would be able to see them. Inspectors had to memorise the trails and then go out and find the things on them.
All the TOP SECRET museum trails kept safe at the back of the MoR HQ
In order that Inspectors could be sure that they had found the correct items, each trail also had some accompanying markers that were placed next to the objects shown on the map. Since these were TOP SECRET trails we didn’t want to put the markers at normal height so normal people could see them. Oh no. We sneakily put the markers on the ground so that only Inspectors looking for secret trail markers would see them.
Going around the museum and art gallery at the end of the day, we spotted these markers:
The Ministry of Rules is a fictional organisation that will be based in the Play Ground exhibition over 21st - 25th of February.
You can join the Ministry for a series of short, free activities to investigate ideas around rules in art galleries and museums.
The Ministry of Rules is coordinated by artist Nikki Pugh, but you, the Ministers, will be able to guide the investigations.
Join us in the gallery throughout the morning of Monday 21st of February to make the enormous ideas wall that will start off the investigation. What rules do we follow? Which rules would we like to break? Which rules shall we re-write?
