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Designing for a Divided People: Planning the permanent exhibition for the Kurdistan Museum, Erbil
“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
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
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 …
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