Tamara pointed out that in my post entitled ‘National Gallery Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ I didn’t mention the way information was provided to visitors.

It’s typical in exhibitions in the UK to see big explanatory panels on the wall at the entrance to each room giving background, chronology, influences, etc.

Then by each painting or object would be the title, when the artwork was created, from where the artwork has been loaned and some background to the piece.

The Van Gogh exhibition was different, and a first for the gallery, The information about the different pieces was in a booklet that was available to be picked up when we entered the gallery, and which one was free to take home.

So instead of a gaggle of people bent over trying to read a piece of text they could look in the booklet. Much easier on the back, but fewer opportunities to photograph someone interesting, bent over and peering shortsightedly at the writing on the wall.