museumplanner.org had a great 2011 – Thank you all !

museumplanner.org had a wonderful 2011 – Thank you all !

Accomplishments in 2011:

• Museum Planner has become the world’s most followed resource for Museum Planning and Exhibition Design (Alexa ranking)
• 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
• Continue to define the best practices of museum planning and exhibition design
• “Museums are Hospitality” most followed post to date on AAM Linkedin
• Hub Museum concept better defined
• “Connecting with the Muses”
• Phases of museums, “Future of Interactivity”
• Continue to answer the “Fequently asked questions”
• Launch of museum-exhibits.com
• Launched Museum News Links, weekly museum news updates, link for weekly email
• Launched Museum Planner on Facebook
• Launched Museum Planner on Twitter
• Linkedin Group Sculpture Science & Museums
• Alcatraz: Life on the Rock opened at Ellis Island
• Trans Studio opened
• Solar Decathlon 2011 juror
• 2011 Best Exhibitions

Plans for 2012

• 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
• Top Museums 2011 Report
• 2012 Best Exhibitions
• Weekly “Museum Trends”, oriented to museum planning, the future of museum exhibitions, interactive sculpture, trends in museums,
• One post per week on, museum planning, exhibition design and the future of museums
• Mark Walhimer Exhibition Design, LLC to become Museum Planner, LLC
• More content on kinetic sculpture
• More content on “Museum 4.0”
• museum-exhibits.com at ASTC
• museum-exhibits.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
• Set up on line resource for “Museum Satisfaction”
• Continued success of “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock”
• More great clients in 2012 !

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 2012.

~Mark Walhimer
Museum Planner