Planetary Gravity exhibit
December 23, 2008
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
internship summer 2008
Practicum: Science Factory
Media Center exhibit space
"share" via Aaron in Google Reader- Heart warming November 3, 2009The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo received ASTC’s Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience last week for Klima X, an exhibition about human-induced climate change. Among the exhibition’s striking features: large blocks of melting ice that represent the melting Arctic icecap, and the yellow boots vistors put on before they enter. Jon Haa […]
- Pure gold October 31, 2009ExhibitFiles members gathered in Forth Worth October 30 to celebrate the growth of the community and its collective resources over the last year. Tom Nielsen of Tucson and Jason Jay Stevens of San Antonio received this year’s “golden” awards in recognition of their recent contributions. Tom wrote in July about his recollections of soap bubble exhibits at the […]
- ExhibitFiles in Fort Worth October 16, 2009If you’ll be in Fort Worth for the ASTC Annual Conference, please come to the ExhibitFiles Happy Hour on Friday, October 30, 5:00-6:30 pm, at Shula’s Bar, in the lobby of the Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel (cash bar). We’ll be recognizing some of the outstanding contributors to the site over the last year. KC Cole, author of the recent biography of Exploratorium […]
- Remembering Frank July 27, 2009A new biography of Frank Oppenheimer by K.C. Cole is out this summer, just in time for the Exploratorium’s 40th anniversary. We invite the ExhibitFiles community to help celebrate – and to take time to revisit and reflect on Frank Oppenheimer’s exhibit philosophy and practice. Over the next three months, contribute a case study or review of an exhibit that w […]
- NAME journal available online July 7, 2009Eric Siegel, president of NAME (the National Association for Museum Exhibition here in the United States), writes with news that back issues of the NAME journal (The Exhibitionist) are now available for download on the NAME website. While NAME is generously making this material available to all, new issues will still only be available to NAME members. Gretch […]
- NAME is looking for AAM session proposals June 17, 2009Wayne LaBar writes that the National Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME) – one of the American Association of Museums (AAM) Standing Professional Committees – is looking for session proposals for the 2010 meeting, to be held in Los Angeles, May 23-27. Sessions relating to the meeting theme – Museums Without Borders – are given greater consideration by t […]
- Heart warming November 3, 2009
