Exhibitions

Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Natural history museums are stuffed to the rafters with evidence of evolution; from dinosaur bones to clams, from mammal skins to jars of preserved …
Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience

By Elizabeth Merritt

I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of the cultural and technological trends CFM is …
FLUX | AAM – CFM

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent projects was conducting research on wine and design …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue …
Steampunk, Crowdfunding and the Power of Social Media

By Elizabeth Merritt

Or, How One Exhibit Company Pulled A Brass Elephant Out Of A Hat This week’s guest post is by Peter Overstreet. Pete and his wife, Cat Taylor, founded the exhibit and event design company Aeronaut Productions LLC. Pete was a full-time …
Hollywood Blockbusters and Flops

By Debbie Sharp

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. What Can They Teach Us About Exhibit Development? I know it’s hard to believe, but I voluntarily left a glamorous career in the film business to …