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Q & A with Ian Kerrigan: Commemoration and “Finding Your Why”

By Ian Kerrigan

This Q and A first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. In this issue, editor Jeanne Normand Goswami sat down with Ian Kerrigan, SVP for Exhibitions at the 9/11 Memorial & …
Mementos de Memoria: A Museum Becomes an Ofrenda

By Manuel Ferreira

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your digital copy of the full upcoming issues. My love, I was so …
Curating Plague in a Noisy Age: An STS Approach to Public Health Exhibitions

By Chia-Hsin Chen

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. In the post-COVID era, museum audiences bring more than just curiosity to our exhibitions. Many come already saturated by …
The Neuroaesthetics of Wonder: Designing for Brain Restoration in a Noisy World

By Piper Hart

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. Museums are among the few public places where people are still invited to slow down, look carefully, and encounter something …
We Will Not Be Erased: Community, Artifacts, and Telling LGBTQ+ Histories

By Adrian Cardwell & Jennifer S. Landry

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. In the summer of 2025, the Irving Archives & Museum (IAM) and Badge of Pride premiered Badge of Pride: From Silence . . …
When Noise Is Everywhere, Joy Becomes Radical

By Becky Jefcoate

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. The Fitzwilliam, the main museum of the University of Cambridge, is home to more than 500,000 objects —from ancient Egyptian …
Designing for a Divided People: Planning the permanent exhibition for the Kurdistan Museum, Erbil

By Christine Echtner

“The next generation do not know about it. I talk to them, but it’s not like a film. If I tell them it may not stick, this way is more permanent.” Najiba Ahmad Hakeem, Kanitu Village, Kurdistan, Iraq about the Kurdistan Memory Programme …
N’Sync: Aligning Expectations During an Exhibition Design Project

By David Whitemyer, AIA

According to Google, pop star Justin Bieber is attributed with the quote, “Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.” It seems more like something Heraclitus or another philosopher might’ve said. Stephen Covey wrote in …
Out of the Blue: A Punderful Session About Out-of-the-Box Thinking

By Juliana Venegas

I love a good pun, so when I saw a session at the 2018 Annual Meeting and Museum Expo about whales and puns, I was hooked! The session began with an emotional video about nine blue whales that died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. People …