Exhibits: What’s a Small Museum to Do? Part I – Design and Conception

Friday, March 15, 2024, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

We’ve all visited exhibits in larger museums that lead us to scratch our heads in envy. So smart, so wonderfully inviting to interaction, so beautiful, so … expensive. Moreover, our visitors, not in the least their kids, have been to those places as well. How can a small museum create exhibits to work with the public’s sophisticated expectations? Is it all about hiring expensive designers, consultants, cabinet makers, and computer specialists? Join us for two back-to-back Conversations on the Commons entitled Exhibits: What’s a Small Museum to Do? Part I will tackle concept and design — in other words, the planning. Part II will take on the installation and technology — that is, the implementation.

Join us with your questions, ideas, successes, less-than-successes, and comments on Friday, March 15, 12-1:30pm for the first part of this Conversation.

Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!

We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the conversation. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. This Conversation will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Questions? Email commons@masshistoryalliance.org

Conversations on the Commons

Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.