Spring 2023: Big Ideas on Small (or Smaller) Budgets

Features

Tough Art: Building a Collection at Any Price by Anne Fullenkamp

Selection Pressures + Value Engineering = Design Adaptations by Elizabeth K. Shea, Helen Bilinski, Jennifer Acord, Stephen Petri, and Peter Lam

Designing Small Traveling Exhibitions for Large Impacts by Lauren Hunley, Cecelia Gavinsky, and Kevin Kooistra

Crafting Cardboard Experiences: The Activity that Evolved into an Exhibition by Joe Imholte and Keith Braafladt

Fast & Cheap, Stable & Reusable: Reimagining Touch-based Interactive Installations at SFO Museum during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Aaron Cope

Made in Polimi: 35 Square Meters for 150 Years of History by Ludovica Cappelletti and Lola Ottolini

Departments

President’s Letter by Travis Helms

Editor’s Letter by Jeanne Normand Goswami

Exhibits Newsline by Jenny-Sayre Ramberg

Q&A: Talking Tech with Matt Maher

Exhibition Critique: Denver’s Iconic, Interactive, and Inciting Public Art [by a museum person who loves this town] by Beth Kaminsky

Nuts & Bolts: Bold Lighting Without the Big Price Tag by Avraham Mor and Casey Diers

Nuts & Bolts: The Wheel Has Been Invented – How Documenting Work Saves Time and Money, Boosts Morale, and Improves the Visitor Experience by Matt Isble

Book Review: Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities reviewed by Becky Seabrook

Announcements: 2023 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

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