UNIVERSALTHE BRITISH MUSEUM AS MULTIPLATFORM STORYTELLER, IN 10 OBJECTS

The universal story of living and dying.

OBJECT 1: GEBELEIN MAN (3500BC)

A universal vision of a place for all* ‘studious and curious persons’.

*(Reality: Not quite all.)

OBJECT 2: ENTRY TICKET (1757)

“A discovery so exciting that when the curator translated it, he took off his clothes.”

Understanding our role as a universal storyteller of shared histories.

OBJECT 3: FLOOD TABLET (650BC)

Multiplatform storytelling of global scale, and not in the media you’d expect.*

(*Or, substance is viral.)

OBJECT 4: ‘A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS’, PODCAST (2010)

The boundary collapses between the audience who visits, and the audience who will never visit.

OBJECT 5: IPHONE (2007)

Mapping the relationship of people with people, with themselves and with objects, at scale.

OBJECT 6: LESTER WISBROD’S SELFIE COLLECTION (1981-PRESENT)

The universal audience becomes available for the first time.

An Enlightenment vision becomes possible.

OBJECT 7: WIFI BALLOONS (2013)

And now we start again, with the whole world in plain sight.

OBJECT 8: THE EMPTY PAGE (2014)

And now the universal stories of how to live, and how to die, and how all of mankind came to be, can be told to all of mankind.*

(*We just have to figure out how to do it)

OBJECT 9: GEBELEIN MAN (3500BC)

You are the path to that: as an audience, and as a path to audiences.

Help us.

OBJECT 10: YOU (2015)