Approaches to art exhibitions have developed to include new technology and to consider a range of ideas beyond the educational and collection-centred role of traditional art museum establishments, leading to a new Museology. The growth in sensory technology has shifted object-centred spectatorship to an experiential immersion to embrace auditory, visual and other senses (Luo, D. et al 2024). There is a shift from being a passive spectator to an active participant. 

Exhibition design often requires a combination of efforts from multiple specialists working together with the curators and museum team. This will involve a series of stages or phases that interlink and develop as the design progresses, with initial ideas leading to a conceptual framework for the overall aims of the exhibition. The experiences of the visitors/audience become an important principle in the overall design (Popoli and Derda 2021), and this can be seen as a shift from traditional, curatorial authority to one considering an audience-centred brief.

Immersive exhibitions can be planned using a development process

S Davies (2010) discusses how exhibitions are produced in museums and how external parties are involved in the production of these exhibitions.  She suggests 6 areas of action any multidisciplinary team have to consider.