ExhibiTricks: A Museum/Exhibit/Design Blog

Super Bowl Sunday will be a great day to visit your local museum --- because it will be even quieter than usual.  This, despite the oft-rep...

The artist Zimoun uses a variety of familiar materials (primarily combinations of boxes, motors, and wire) to create sound sculptures and ...

Jim Spadaccini is the Director of Ideum and Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Open Exhibits initiative.  In the last century,...

The weakest possible argument for layers of excessive multimedia mayhem in a museum environment?  Here it comes: "Just look at young p...

Learning to be a good exhibit prototyper is a lot like learning to be a good swimmer or a good baker.  You could read about any of those s...

Since there are four kids at our house (my wife might argue that there are really five kids, but I digress ...) we pretty much corner the m...