Spring 2005: Exhibits in Small Museums

• Entire Issue (PDF 17.3 MB)
• Good Things Come in Small Packages
• Climbing Up the Learning Curve
• Big Things in Small Packages: Videos in Your Exhibits
• What's Working for Small Museums in St. Louis
• Strength in Numbers: Successful Travelling Exhibition Collaborations for Small Museums
• Arthurdale: "Eleanor's Little Village"
• Help is on the Way: A Texas Pilot Program Has Lessons for Small Museums
• and much more

Fall 2004: International Exhibits

• From the President
• From the Editors
• Exhibits Newsline
• What's in a NAME Scholarship?
• A New Take on Multicultural Exhibits:The Asian Civilisations Museum
• Crossing Borders: International Traveling Exhibit Issues
• Bringing the Emperor's Treasures to Chicago
• Charting A New Course: Visitor Research in Asia and Continental Europe
• Take Me to the River: International Field Study in Support of Exhibits
• Gateway of the Americas: International Efforts at The Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium
• Out of the United States of Mind
• Rules of the Road: Four Lessons from an Extraordinary Exhibit Adventure
• Developing Guidelines for Traveling Exhibits in Europe: The CASTEX Project
• Museum-building as Nation-building
• From the 15th to the 21st Century in One Leap

Spring 2004: Using the Senses in Exhibitions

• Making Sense of Cave Life
• Dinosphere: Now You're in Their World
• Something Smells
• Grab Your Visitors by the Ear
• The Sixth Sense
• Experience Architecture
• Welcoming Kids who "Learn Differently"

Fall 2003: Technology for and in Museums

• A More Perfect Union of Medium and Message
• Passive and Active Microclimage Generation
• Personal Data Assistants
• I want to Hold Your Hand (Held)
• The Farmer and the Cowman should be Friends
• Taking the Bilingual Leap

Spring 2003: Dilemmas of Interpretation

• When Workers Speak
• Body Worlds
• The Bilingual Dilemma
• As Time Goes By
• Universal Design
• Einstein

Fall 2002: Critic's Choice

• Intention Does Count
• Sailing into the Known: Our Dynamic Planet and the Cranbrook Institute of Science
• Can't Get No Satisfaction
• The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History
• Ask Questions First, Shoot Later: The American Fish and Wildlife Museum
• Storytelling in Science Exhibits
• "I Just Want to Build Things": Another Visit to the City Museum

Spring 2002: Formalizing Exhibition Development

• Recent Trends in Exhibition Development
• Black-Tie Exhibit Development
• A Platform for Success: The Field Museum's Exhibition Process
• Reformalizing at Bishop Museum
• The Tech Museum of Innovation's Exhibit Process
• Go with the Flow: The Exhibit Design Process Made Visible
• Counterpoint: Customizing the Exhibit Development Process
• and much more...

Fall 2001: Designing for Conservation

• Sharing the Responsibility for Preservation
• Conflict or Collaboration: Redefining the Relationship Between Design and Conservation
• Conservation-Grade Exhibit Cases: A Standard Museum Option in the 21st Century
• Retrofitting Old Exhibit Cases: A Search for Economical and Safe Cabinetry
• New Micro-Enclosures for Framed Collections
• and much more...

Spring 2001: Striving for Excellence in Exhibitions

• Excellence in Exhibitions
• A Tool for Juggling Excellence in Museum Exhibitions
• Just Add Water: Essential Elements to Make a Traveling Exhibition
• A Sense of Place: Employing Place-Making in Exhibit Design
• Exhibiting Indians: Communities Collaboration and Control
• Working with the Community in Exhibition Development: A Cyberspace Forum

Fall 2000: Critiquing Exhibits: Meanings and Realities

• Current Literature on Museum Exhibition Development and Design
• How Do We Look? Some Thoughts on Critical Reviews of Museum Exhibits
• Through the Looking Glass and Back
• Science City: A New Adventure?
• Wait a Minute!
• Meaning Making: The Conversation Continues

Spring 2000: Rethinking the Exhibit Team

• Who's Using the Team Process? How's it Going?
• Rethinking the Exhibit Team
• Trust in the Team Approach: A Case Study
• Thinking Critically about Exhibit
• Exhibit Criticism: A Pretty Okay Idea
• Critically Thinking about Exhibition
• Criticism and Exhibition Evaluation
• Decoding San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation
• Have We Gotten Any Better at Exhibition Criticism?

Fall 1999: Making Meaning in Exhibits

• Forum
• From the Editor
• From the President
• Meaning Making: A New Paradigm for Museum Exhibits?
• Meaning Making Matters: Communication, Consequence, and Exhibit Design
• Is Meaning Making Constructivism? Is Constructivism Meaning Making?
• Setting the Stage for Meaningful Exhibits
• Experience, Inquiry and Making Meaning
• Meaning Making and Degrees of Freedom
• The Stories We Tell About Meaning Making
• "The sound must seem an echo to the sense": Meaning Making in Poetry and Exhibits
• How Exhibits Mean: Memory, History, and the 1904 World's Fair
• Meaning Making in Children's Museums: Why Try?
• Technically Speaking: Flat Glass

Spring 1999: Managing Creativity

• What Do We Know About Creativity?
• Managing Creative Teams
• Creating in Teams
• Responsibilities of the Creative Project Leader
• Nurturing Expansive Thinking Among Interdisciplinary Teams
• Laughing Till the Beer Spurts Out Your Nose and Other Secrets for Successful Design Teams
• Theater Games as a Stimulus for Creativity
• Tips for Creative Teams
• Creating Creative Exhibits

Fall 1998

• Why We Need a Visitor's Bill of Rights
• Criticism and Audience
• We Need Criticism
• What Can We Learn from N=1?
• Critical Shortage: Can Anyone Help?
• Spinning Fish Tales: Telling Marine Biology
• On Being an Exhibit Designer
• A Designer Looks at Interpretation
• Ralph Appelbaum on Being an Exhibit Designer
• Critical Thoughts about Design
• Conversation Tips for Designers and Evaluators

Spring 1998

• Netting Visitors: Casino Bounces Back
• Exhibit Design Meets the Web
• Five Ways from the Web

• The Nine-Ton Cat: Behind the Scenes at an Art Museum
• Exhibition Budgeting Handbook

Spring 1997

• What Manner of Beast Is This? Exhibition Criticism and the "Intentional Fallacy"
• Should Exhibit Designers Professionalize?
• What is an Exhibit Developer?
• The Secret Life of the Home: An Initiation into Exhibit Design
• Marketing to Generation X
• Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

• Museum Premieres: Exhibitions & Special Events

Issues earlier than Spring 1997 are no longer available.

Opinions expressed in Exhibitionist are those of the authors and may not represent the policies of NAME and/or AAM.