When your museum's namesake was an enslaver
Rather than sidestepping the controversy, they stepped into it.
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Every story has a shape.
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Magical effects
Visiting Het Grachtenhuis, the Canal House Museum in Amsterdam, was more like going to the theater than visiting exhibits. For me the...
Nov 14, 20224 min read
Visiting the center of place and time
I walked over the prime meridian purposefully, moving from Eastern to Western hemispheres with one step.
Sep 2, 20222 min read
When visitors speak many languages
How museums in the Netherlands communicate with visitors who speak different languages.
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Help exhibit visitors organize their experience
Repeated elements, a text hierarchy, and lighting design give people useful frameworks.
Jan 12, 20212 min read
History exhibit or art exhibit?
Perhaps the only difference is that one's in a history museum and the other's in an art museum.
Dec 12, 20203 min read
That new exhibit feeling, pandemic version
I drove into Denver to see the exhibit with some sadness that I wouldn’t get to watch people looking at our work.
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