On April 14th, we traveled to Amelia Earhart’s hometown of Atchison, Kansas to celebrate the opening of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum. Founded with the mission to educate, inspire, and empower all generations in the pursuit of flight, the museum chronicles Earhart’s life, groundbreaking achievements, and houses the last remaining 1935 Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft […]
Continue ReadingWe’ve learned a few things through our work developing museum exhibits over more years than we’d like to admit. Here are a few shortcuts to avoid some painful mistakes.
Your museum is a product of your organization’s unique personality and borne of your team’s ideas and values, not just a collection of stuff. When you see a great exhibit at another museum, take note of what you like about it—rather than just trying to duplicate it. What does it do well and what could be improved upon?
The Glass Barn Our favorite projects involve taking educational content and making it understandable, interactive, and fun. Museum EXP recently led an exhibit renovation for the Indiana Soybean Alliance that allowed us to create engaging experiences that reinforce important information about agriculture in a fun way—plus we were able to include a few soybean puns. […]
Continue ReadingCrayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition wins award for Best Personalized Experience. Learn how Museum EXP and the project team created a unique interactive experience that uses an RFID wristband to gather guests’ responses in the exhibition and determine their individual creative style.
Continue ReadingMuseum EXP served as the Creative Producer for the exhibition contracted by Agency808 and Innov8tive Exhibitions to leverage the Crayola brand for the museum market. As the demands of each project vary, our role as the Creative Producer role evolves to fit the needs of the project. For this project we wore many hats—working as the project manager, IP license liaison, AV technical coordinator, interactive developer, production manager, and head cheerleader.
Continue ReadingWe did it friends—we made it to 2021! Reflecting on this past year, we are so immensely grateful for your support, incredible friendship, and exhibitions that provided us opportunities for growth, learning, and creativity. We want to let you know how much we miss you all! From conferences to museum adventures, you’ve become a part of our extended […]
Continue ReadingMuseum EXP is delighted to publicly announce the upcoming opening of Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition at The Franklin Institute in February 2021. Museum EXP serves as the Creative Producer and Project Manager by coordinating all facets of this experience, including: design, content, media, A/V, and fabrication on behalf of Agency808 and Innov8ive Exhibitions. Agency808’s […]
Continue ReadingMuseum EXP was proud to lead the development of a new children’s hospital exhibition at the Glazer Children’s Museum. The project is a collaboration between the museum and BayCare Health System’s St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital. In this experience, children learn about the different jobs of hospital workers and what’s goes on inside the hospital. They […]
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