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Paul Orselli Talks Museum Exhibit FAQs TOO!

Decisions, decisions ... November 4, 2026
Sometimes, as part of a museum exhibit experience, we'd like users to make a choice: "Which historical figure do you want to find out about?" "Choose one of these six minerals to test ..." "Did your animal survive the winter?" and so on.While these kinds of decision points as part of an interactive experience can […]
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Trick or Treat? What Halloween Can Teach Us About Exhibit Development October 28, 2026
It's October, which means plastic skeletons are already hanging from porches here on Long Island, grocery stores have been selling candy corn since roughly Labor Day, and somewhere a museum educator is trying to fit "pumpkin" into a STEM program for the third year running.But Halloween has been rattling around in my head for a […]
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1,000 Posts! (How Small Steps Add Up to Something Big) October 21, 2026
Back in 2007, the iPhone was brand new, “Web 2.0” was the hot buzzword at every museum conference, and I sat down to write the first ExhibiTricks post.I didn’t have a grand plan. I just wanted a place to share ideas, tricks, and the occasional rant with fellow museum folks — the kind of things […]
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What Makes a Museum Experience Stick? October 13, 2026
Quick: think of a museum visit you still remember years later. Not the museum, the moment.It was probably a feeling, a surprise, something you did, or someone you were with.After decades of building exhibits and wandering through other people's creations, I've come to believe that memorable museum experiences share a handful of ingredients. Here are […]
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Masks, Portals, and Non-Museums October 7, 2026
Every few years, someone outside the museum world builds something that makes all of us inside the museum world squirm a little.People line up around the block. They pay real money (often more than museum admission). They come back again and again. And they tell their friends with the kind of breathless enthusiasm we'd love […]
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"Storm Proofing" Your Exhibits? September 30, 2026
Batten Down the Hatches!If you live anywhere near the East Coast, you spent last weekend watching the sky. A nor'easter rolled in with heavy rain, gusty winds, and coastal flooding. Here in New York, everybody's first question before a big storm is some version of: "Is the subway going to flood again?" We've all seen those […]
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Big Museum Energy (on a Small Museum Budget) September 23, 2026
If museums had a red carpet season, we'd be in the middle of it.The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art just opened its doors in Los Angeles. It has more than 100,000 square feet of galleries, continuous film screenings, a free research library, a destination restaurant, and a new 13-acre park. And if that isn't enough architectural […]
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Trick or Treat? What Halloween Can Teach Us About Exhibit Development

It's October, which means plastic skeletons are already hanging from porches here on Long Island, gr...

1,000 Posts! (How Small Steps Add Up to Something Big)

Back in 2007, the iPhone was brand new, “Web 2.0” was the hot buzzword at every museum conferenc...

What Makes a Museum Experience Stick?

Quick: think of a museum visit you still remember years later. Not the museum, the moment.It was pro...

Masks, Portals, and Non-Museums

Every few years, someone outside the museum world builds something that makes all of us inside the m...

"Storm Proofing" Your Exhibits?

Batten Down the Hatches!If you live anywhere near the East Coast, you spent last weekend watching th...