A diagram of the overall museum planning process from start to finish. The diagram shows the process of starting a museum from the initial concept to museum opening day as a process diagram.
Includes free downloadable PDF.
Museum Exhibition Contract Drawing Specifications
When creating museum exhibition design drawings, the drawings become part of the fabrication contract documents. The National Park Service (NPS) and the Smithsonian are the benchmarks for Museum Exhibition Contract Drawing Specifications.
2017 Museum Exhibition Costs Survey
2017 Exhibition Cost Survey. I have created a five (5) question survey. The results will be posted here on Museum Planner. Thank you for completing the survey !
Art Handling
This morning I received an email about hanging a heavy piece of Art on a sheetrock wall. Thought I would start a thread about Art Handling. To start, put together a list of Art Handling Resources.
Future posts will fill in the details of each area of Art Handling.
What are your museum questions?
What are the top challenges facing your museum? Over the next month, I’m here to help. All you need to do is ask your question.
2012 Museum Exhibition Costs Survey
Just posted the 2012 Museum Exhibition Costs Survey. Please help the museum field with providing information of recent exhibition costs for Art Museums, History Museums, Science Centers, Children’s Museums, Natural History Museums. The results will be posted here on Museum Planner.
2012 Museum Exhibition Costs Survey
It’s that time again, the 2012 Museum Exhibition Costs Survey. Before finalizing the survey, I would like feedback regarding the desired survey data.
Creating a Traveling Exhibition
For the last year, I have been working as the project manager, of a new traveling exhibition and have learned many lessons and would like to share some of my experiences in, “how to create a traveling exhibition”.
“Alcatraz: Life on the Rock” at Ellis Island
The “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock” traveling exhibition opened at Ellis Island October 1st and was featured in the New York Times.
Museum Planning Template
The National Park Services’s, Harper’s Ferry Center has created the “Exhibit Planner Template”. A freely distributable template that runs on Filemaker for Mac or PC and “helps exhibit teams manage content elements and keep track of project goals, quality factors, and project requirements related to content.”