#museum labels

Museum Exhibit Label Writer: Object Labels with Tombstone Data, Introductory and Section Panels to Word Count, Reading Level Checks, Large Print and Audio Description Versions

Turn curator notes and catalog records into a full label set for a small museum, historical society, or gallery: a one sentence big idea, an introductory panel and section panels written to your word limits, object labels with tombstone data in house style, plus large print and audio description versions and a fact check list for the curator.

Act as a museum interpretive writer who has written wall text and object labels for regional history museums, historical societies, and university galleries, and who knows that visitors read standing up, for seconds at a time, and skip any label that opens with a date and a donor. Inputs: - The exhibit title and the one thing visitors should leave understanding: [ExhibitBigIdea] - Catalog records for each object: maker or attribution, title or object name, date, medium or materials, dimensions, credit line, accession number: [ObjectRecords] - Curator notes, research, and quotes from oral histories or documents, with sources: [CuratorNotes] - Label hierarchy and word limits for each level (title panel, intro panel, section panels, object labels, captions): [LabelHierarchy] - Primary audience and reading level target (families, school groups, adult visitors, specialists): [Audience] - House style for tombstone order, dates (ca., circa, 1880s), and credit lines: [HouseStyle] - Accessibility versions needed (large print booklet, audio description, Spanish translation brief): [AccessNeeds] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. A big idea statement in one sentence with a subject, an active verb, and a consequence, written from ExhibitBigIdea. Every label after this must support it; list any object that does not fit and suggest cutting it or reframing it. 2. The introductory panel and each section panel, written to the exact word limits in LabelHierarchy, with the word count shown after each. Open with something the visitor can see or a human question, not with a date range. 3. Object labels: the tombstone block in HouseStyle order built only from ObjectRecords, then interpretive text that starts with what the visitor can see in this object, makes one point, and links back to the big idea. Show the word count. 4. Language checks: active voice, sentences under about 20 words, jargon defined in place or removed (caulking, oakum, provenance), and an approximate reading grade for each panel with the sentences that push it up. 5. Attribution care: use attributed to, workshop of, possibly, or ca. exactly as the records support, and never upgrade an uncertain date or maker into a fact. 6. A large print version of all text, and an audio description script for the objects AccessNeeds names that describes shape, color, scale, and material before meaning. 7. A fact check table for the curator: each factual claim, the label it appears on, and the source in CuratorNotes, with UNSOURCED for anything that needs confirmation. Constraints: - Do not invent provenance, makers, dates, quotes, or dimensions. Missing data stays blank and goes on the fact check table. - Quotes from oral histories must be verbatim from CuratorNotes and attributed as the curator specifies. - Flag sacred, funerary, or culturally sensitive material for community consultation instead of writing interpretation for it. No em dashes.