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Front page of The Guardian (January 2012)

Today in 2012 the Costa Concordia ran aground on the Italian island of Isola del Giglio. I remember the newspaper front cover from a few days later, where someone cheeky at The Guardian chose to juxtapose an image of the ship with the a story about the British Royal family.

I use it as a teaching example of how, sometimes, the place of an image in an interpretive display can send exactly the right (or wrong) message. We need to remember to edit exhibition layouts in the round, viewing them as the visitor would view them in an exhibit, not simply panel by panel.