How it works

1. Download. Download the exhibit kit editor to your office computer.
2. Create. Use the editor to create your exhibit. The editor is as easy to use as a wordprocessor - type text in the text boxes, load pictures into the picture boxes. There's no programming involved.
3. Publish. Choose the "Publish" option to make a single file which contains your exhibit. Put this on a flash drive and transfer it to the gallery. Job done.

There are currently two different exhibit kits, Find Out More and the Quiz.

Find Out More lets you use text, pictures and video to give visitors more background information about your exhibition.

The Quiz lets you create fun quizzes to really engage people in your content.
Currently both kits are free to download and fully ready to be used for real gallery exhibits. The free version of Find Out More has a limit of 6 pages and the free version of the Quiz has a limit of 5 questions. You can also license versions without these limits.

If this sounds interesting let us know at exhibitkit@joecutting.com

Download

Find Out More and Quiz maker exhibit kits are free to download, but first we'd like to know a little bit about you:

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Features

Both exhibit kits have the following features:

• All text fully editable
• All images fully editable
• Image crop/resize for to make images the right size
• Timeout to automatically restart the exhibit if visitors walk away
• Suitable for touchscreen, trackball or mouse
• Choice of sounds (or no sound)
• Choice of colour scheme

What does it cost?

You can download the free versions of the exhibit kit software and use them to create exhibits for no payment. The free versions limit the number of pages or questions you can have.

You can buy a site license for the unlimited version of an exhibit kit for £1500+VAT (Click for U.S. dollars or Euros ). We have discounts available for small museums. Get in touch for more details.

You'll also need a touchscreen and a computer. We've had good results with an ELO 1939L touchscreen which is around £450 (Suppliers here). For the computer we've used an HP 6000 Pro which is around £390 ( Suppliers here). But you should be able to use pretty much any new Windows PC and many other touchscreens. The exhibit kits will even work with a mouse or trackball.

To place an order or find out more get in touch at exhibitkit@joecutting.com

Gallery

Here's a selection of some of the different exhibits that people have made using exhibit kits.

The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK used the quiz kit to make a game show style quiz about ancient Egypt.

Ampleforth Abbey created a quiz about life as a monk.

Eksjö museum in Sweden used Find Out More to create an exhibit about the artist and author Albert Engström. Our Swedish is a bit rusty but apparently the kit coped just fine.

The Scottish Stem Cell Network commisioned a custom designed version of Find Out More for an exhibit about the latest in stem cell research. It's now being used in several science centres.

The National Museum of Scotland commisioned a custom version of the quiz for their Investigate gallery as part of the refurbishment of the Royal Museum galleries. The design complements the gallery graphics to create a light-hearted look.

More details

Exhibit kits have been tested to run on Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you need a Macintosh version please let us know and why it's important at exhibitkit@joecutting.com.

Exhibit kits can be used with a touchscreen, trackball or mouse.

They can use almost any screen size but for best performance we'd recommend a 17" with a resolution of 1280 x 1024.

You can change all the text which visitors see which means you can create your exhibit in any language which uses the latin character set.

Each exhibit kit comes with a reference manual which you can also read on the web but the best way of seeing how they work is to download one and try it!

Read Find Out More reference manual>

Read Quiz reference manual>