museumplanner.org had a great 2012 – Thank you all !

museumplanner.org had a wonderful 2012 – Thank you all !

Accomplishments in 2012:

• Museum Planner continues to be the world’s most followed resource for Museum Planning and Exhibition Design (Alexa ranking)
• Museum Exhibition Design blog series, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI
• Created “Museum Trends / Museum of the Future” website
• “Museums are for the Rich” blog post
• “Museum exhibitions change Lives” blog post
• A work in progress, “2012 Top 10 Science Centers” blog post
• Museum Feasibility Study blog post
• “Museums and the Internet” blog post
• 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
• Created “Museum Planning” group on LinkedIn
• Continue to define the best practices of museum planning and exhibition design
• Changed Company Name to Museum Planning, LLC
• Continue to answer the “Fequently asked questions”
• Launch of museum-exhibits.com
• Museum Planner on Facebook
• Museum Planner on Twitter
• Museum Planner on Pinterest
• Linkedin Group Sculpture Science & Museums
• Alcatraz: Life on the Rock opened at Liberty State Park
• Consultant to M+
• Feasibility Study for a new museum in New York
• Designed new exhibits for “Alcatraz Landing”
• 2011 Best Exhibitions

Plans for 2013

• 2013 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
• Top Museums 2012 Report
• 2012 Best Exhibitions
• More content on kinetic sculpture
• More content on “Museum 4.0”
• museumexhibits.com to become the internets most respected website for “off the shelf exhibits and interactive sculpture”
• Interactive sculpture installed at a museum
• First draft of a book on museum planning
• “Museum U” – set up online museum class content
• Apply for Hub Museum as a NFS Grant
• Science Center project
• Continue to build green-exhibits.org as a resource
• Continue to build museumaccess.org as a resource
• Continue work on “The Future of Museums” lecture
• Continued success of “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock”
• More great clients in 2013 !

Thank you for the great year!  Looking forward to completing more research on the topic of Museum Planning & Exhibition Design at museumplanner.org and working with more great clients in 2013.

~Mark Walhimer
Museum Planner