Exhibitions

Some thoughts on visitor exhibition patterns

By Beverly Serrell

In a recent thread on Museum Junction, Beverly Serrell, director of Serrell & Associates, responded to a post titled Unintended Visitor Flow Pattern with some really helpful information. There are several basic assumptions that …
Time is of the Essence: 5 Ways to Keep Your Exhibit Design Project on Schedule

By David Whitemyer, AIA

Design and construction projects are notorious for taking longer than expected, and the unique undertaking of a museum exhibit design project is no exception. A number of factors routinely throw these projects off track. Unrealistic …
Excellence in Label Writing-Awards

By Elizabeth Wessells

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#AAM2017 Preview: using comics to have difficult conversations in museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

Greetings! Sage here. I have had the pleasure of working with Smithsonian Exhibits designer and comic book artist Evan Keeling for the past two years. Now we’ve developed an amazing panel of comic artists, educators and scholars from …
Missouri History Museum Exhibit Highlights St. Louis’ Role in Civil Rights Movement

By Local Host Committee

With a theme of Gateways for Understanding: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums, the 2017 AAM Annual Meeting will put special focus on how our institutions can help support, heal and educate our communities. The …
Tips for Museum Educators to become Exhibition Design Facilitators

By Karen Malone

As a museum educator, do you ever feel forgotten? Feel as though your expertise was relegated to the tail-end of exhibition planning? Do you wish museum education played a larger leadership role at your institution? In this blog post, I …
Exhibition Label Writing & Audience Engagement

By American Alliance of Museums

Exhibition labels can be an important means to deeper audience engagement. This program provides several approaches for including audience voices and telling intriguing stories that can help audiences make connections as part of their …
EXTREME EXHIBIT MAKEOVER: History Museum Meets Reality TV

By Elizabeth Merritt

Sometimes people who work in small museums take me to task about some of the technologies I highlight in CFM forecasts (“we can’t afford that!”) When this happens, I point out it’s never really about the technology—it’s about the human …
Four Ways of Seeing the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last July, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project and co-founder of MIT Media Lab, keynoted at the WorldFuture 2013 conference. In the ten minute extract of his talk embedded below, he offers four ways of looking …
Institutional Evolution: How Monticello faced and interpreted a legacy of slavery

By Elizabeth V. Chew

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands before a curved wall. A sculpture of the nation’s third president certainly isn’t unusual. …