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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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5 Unexpected Ways to Network at Your Next Conference September 15, 2026
It's a BIG Museum Conference Week, folks!By some quirk of the scheduling gods, the ASTC Annual Conference (September 16–19 in Phoenix, hosted by Arizona Science Center) and the AASLH/NCPH Joint Conference (also September 16–19, in Providence, Rhode Island) are happening at exactly the same time this year. So unless you've figured out how to be […]
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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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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...

Big Museum Energy (on a Small Museum Budget)

If museums had a red carpet season, we'd be in the middle of it.The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ju...

5 Unexpected Ways to Network at Your Next Conference

It's a BIG Museum Conference Week, folks!By some quirk of the scheduling gods, the ASTC Annual Confe...