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.
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.”
Working Big to Small
When I am working on a project I am always thinking “Big to Small”. What are the big things that need to be finished before I can move onto the smaller and then smaller tasks. It is all to easy to get tied up in the smaller tasks at the start of a project, so I think “Big to Small” …
Museum Planning Software
Below is a list of the software I use. I use a MacBook Pro, travel often so like having the laptop. In the studio have two Mac design workstations and an office computer. Design: Sketchup – Free, 3D drawing software Tux Paint – Free, Great for doing a quick sketches VectorWorks – Drafting Photoshop – Image Editing Illustrator – Drawing …
2009 in Review: Museum Exhibitions – ARTINFO.com
Review of 2009 Art Exhibitions 2009 in Review: Museum Exhibitions – ARTINFO.com
Gantt Project
I am a visual person,until I have a Pert Chart or a Gantt Chart I don’t really understand a project. I love Gantt Project a free and open source project management software. It is similar to Microsoft Project with one big advantage (besides being free) that it is cross platform working on Windows, Linux and MacOS. I have started creating …
Exhibition Fabrication
Steering Wheel Prototype People always use the word partner when taking about business relationships, as part of the museum planning process finding a fabricator you can work with is truly a partnership. Often ideas will come up and before you want to move forward you want the project estimated, any good fabricator can do it, but they will only estimate …
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