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"Unfacilitated" Doesn't Mean "Unpeopled" September 8, 2026
Have you noticed what happens at the self-checkout lane at the supermarket?The whole premise is that you don't need a person. Scan, bag, pay, leave. And yet every store still posts a human at the end of the row, and every one of us has been quietly grateful for them when the machine barks "unexpected […]
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The milk bottle is a Trojan horse. August 28, 2026
Somewhere along the way, milk got controversial again.The oat-milk aisle has opinions. Some influencers treat raw milk like a personality. Almond, soy, macadamia, and "barista blend." The dairy case now reads like a debate stage. For a plain white liquid that mostly just wants to go on cereal, milk is doing a remarkable amount of […]
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Fake Food, Giant Sequins, and Artificial Dirt? There's a List for That! August 17, 2026
If you've been reading ExhibiTricks for a while, you already know I'm a sucker for a good "trusted source." That one supplier who has exactly the weird thing you need at 4:45 on a Friday afternoon. Well, one of my favorite FREE resources is The Great Big Museum Exhibit Resource List, and if you've never […]
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Everything Museums, Everywhere, All At Once August 9, 2026
A few years back, a movie called "Everything Everywhere All at Once" swept the Oscars by flatly refusing to be one kind of movie. Science fiction, kung-fu picture, family drama, tax-audit procedural. Critics kept reaching for a genre label, and the movie kept swatting it away. The whole point was that a life refuses to […]
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What's the ONE Exhibit Tool You Can't Work Without? July 30, 2026
There's that old party game where somebody asks, "If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring only one book (or album, or snack), what would it be?" I've always thought exhibit developers deserve our own version.So here's mine: if you could reach for just ONE tool or resource to develop an exhibit […]
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What Can a Guy Who Finds Strangers on the Internet Teach Us About Finding Stuff for Exhibits? July 21, 2026
Have you found josemonkey yet?If not, here's the elevator pitch: somebody sends him a short video (usually a few seconds of a parking lot, a backyard, a stretch of nondescript highway) and he tells them, often within striking distance, exactly where on Earth it was filmed. No metadata, no GPS tag, no cheating. Just the […]
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Getting People INSIDE Museums When It's Gorgeous OUTSIDE July 13, 2026
It's the height of summer, and you know the drill: the sun is out, the humidity is (mostly) tolerable, and every single person in your community has decided that today is the day to hit the beach, the lake, the pool, the trail, or basically anywhere that isn't your museum.If I had a nickel for […]
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"Unfacilitated" Doesn't Mean "Unpeopled"

Have you noticed what happens at the self-checkout lane at the supermarket?The whole premise is that...

The milk bottle is a Trojan horse.

Somewhere along the way, milk got controversial again.The oat-milk aisle has opinions. Some influenc...

Fake Food, Giant Sequins, and Artificial Dirt? There's a List for That!

If you've been reading ExhibiTricks for a while, you already know I'm a sucker for a good "trusted s...

Everything Museums, Everywhere, All At Once

A few years back, a movie called "Everything Everywhere All at Once" swept the Oscars by flatly refu...

What's the ONE Exhibit Tool You Can't Work Without?

There's that old party game where somebody asks, "If you were stranded on a desert island and could ...