This article focuses on traveling exhibits with special attention to budgets and contracts. Cathy Ferree Bork, Associate Vice President of Exhibits at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Tamara Wooten-Bonner, Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Dallas Museum of Art, discuss the nuts and bolts of budgets. Michelle Torres-Carmona, Director of Scheduling & Exhibitor Relations at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and Whitney Owens, Traveling Exhibitions Director at the Field Museum of Natural History, focus on contracts.
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In this article, John Chiodo, Design Director at Gallagher and Associates, identifies areas of friction that can develop between team members from within institutions and with consulting firms during the collaborative exhibition process. Chiodo provides several examples and shares observations and recommendations based on his 25 years of experience working in teams made up of in-house museum staff and design consultants engaged in developing new interpretive exhibitions or museums.
In this brief article, Frank Madsen, President of Teller Madsen, Inc., describes how his team created stand-up labels--labels positioned at a nearly 80% angle immediately behind the flat object being described--for the Newberry Library's recent exhibition on Abraham Lincoln. Madsen describes how these unique labels improve the object/label relationship and provide more space in the display cases showcasing many flat documents and books.
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In this article, Phyllis Rabineau, Vice President for Interpretation and Education at the Chicago History Museum, explores the tensions that are unique to history exhibitions. Rabineau shares highlights from conversations with Chicago History Museum colleagues, who have been in the field for 10 years or longer.
In this article, Robert Kiihne, Director of Exhibits at the USS Constitution Museum, describes the planning and research process associated with the "Sailors Speak" and "A Sailor's Life for Me!" exhibitions. The team studied how to encourage Family Learning through hands-on, minds-on, exhibit elements. This article describes research results and makes recommendations about how to better engage multi-generational groups in the educational experience.
The article is a summary of the comments and discussions from the NAME-hosted "What's Going On? Hot Topics in Exhibits" session at the 2006 AAM conference. Paul Martin, Vice President of Exhibits at Science Museum of Minnesota, Janet Kamien, President of Janet Kamien Museum Consulting, Tamara Biggs, Director of Exhibits at the Chicago Historical Society, and Eugene Dillenburg, Exhibit Developer at the Science Museum of Minnesota, as well as other participants addressed the diverging attitudes between new and older exhibit professionals.
This article features critiques of the "Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear" exhibit at the Liberty Science Center. Brenda Cowan, Chairperson of the Graduate Exhibition Design program at SUNY/Fashion Institute of Technology, Paul Orselli, Chief Instigator of Paul Orselli Workshop, and Martin Weiss, Science Interpretation Consultant at the New York Hall of Science, share their analysis of the exhibition and assess its strengths and weaknesses.
In this exhibition review, Barbara Cohen-Stratner, the Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg Curator of Exhibitions for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, examines the "Abolition200" project, programs and exhibits that commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Parliamentary act that ended British participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Cohen-Stratner focuses on three major exhibitions--one that commissioned a new art work, one that relabeled elements of its permanent display, and one that combined these methods--to discuss how museums can develop exhibitions and reinterpret
In this article, Wayne LaBar, Vice President of Exhibitions and Featured Experiences at the Liberty Science Center and Principal-in-Charge at LSC Experience Services, presents preliminary observations, lessons learned, and discoveries made during the first year of developing "Cooking: The Exhibition Chefs." During the development of this exhibit, Liberty Science Center began an ongoing series of investigations called "Exhibit Commons," an attempt to engage the public in its exhibition process and operations. LaBar's analyzes the influence of this method on the entire exhibit development
In this article, Jim Spadaccini, Director of Ideum, examines open source software packages designed specifically for museums. Spadaccini provides practical advice on how this software can be utilized in museums.
In this article, Jay Rounds, director of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, analyzes "meaning making" as a new approach to exhibits. Rounds helps clarify what "meaning making" means and identifies conctrete ways in which exhibits can be designed to stimulate and support visitors in their processes of meaning making.
In this article, Rich Faron, president, and Susan Curran, director, both of Museum Explorer, Inc., explore the importance of internal relationships among museum staff. In particular, the authors outline "Five Ts for successful teams" and other ways to improve teamwork amongst museum professionals.