Exhibition journal Fall 2023: You Are Here: Exhibitions & Placemaking

Features

Evolution of a Space: A Natural Approach to Enhanced Interpretation by Leah M. Melber, Ph.D., Lauren Dennhardt, Ph.D., and Joseph Vickers

Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project by Adrienne Lalli Hills and Margaret Middleton

Spaces of Diaspora: Community Architecture as Exhibition by Fatima Al-Rasool

A Monumental Responsibility: Exhibiting and Interpreting the Auction Block in Fredericksburg, Virginia by Dr. Gaila Sims and Theresa Cramer

Neurodiversity and Placemaking in Exhibition Design by Piper Hutson and James Hutson

China and Scotland in Salem: Creating an Unperiod Room at the Peabody Essex Museum by Karina H. Corrigan, Bridget Devlin, Lan Morgan, and Jim Olson

Place as the Catalyst of Learning in Museums by Isabel Diez Uriarte and Liliana Orozco Mora

Moments That Matter: Toward a Visitor-Centered Understanding of Belonging in Museum Spaces by Evelyn Ronning, Sarah Lukowski, Amy Grack Nelson, and Marjorie Bequette

#MUSEUMTOK: How TikTok and Placemaking Are Changing the Museum Experience by Leander Gussmann

Departments

President’s Letter by Jennifer Chow

Letter from AAM’s Interim CEO by Brooke E. Leonard

Editor’s Letter by Jeanne Normand Goswami

Exhibits Newsline by Jenny-Sayre Ramberg

Q&A: Margaret Chandra Kerrison on Storytelling, Narrative Placemaking, and Pushing Boundaries

EXHIBITION CRITIQUE: Placemaking: Quilts and the Creation of Special Spaces by Laura Barss Mooney

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