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A visitor finds her place on the Arborway

Placemaking graphics at the new Casey Arborway connection

By admin | August 22, 2019

Reconnecting the Emerald Necklace Busy commuters making their connections at Forest Hills Station may not realize a vital connection has been created as well right outside the station. Our new placemaking graphic panels show how the most significant single entity of the Emerald Necklace, Franklin Park, has reclaimed its place as the pendant. The Necklace,…

Entry to Roxbury Heritage State Park

Interpreting Roxbury, the Untold History

By admin | July 3, 2019

Winner of a 2020 Boston Preservation Alliance Achievement Award https://youtu.be/sFENLmwB1tU Roxbury, Massachusetts is 389 years old, and as a town, city, and now a neighborhood of Boston, has experienced all the significant upheavals and events of those last four (almost) centuries. Colonialism, war, slavery, immigration, the industrial revolution, civil rights, etc. all occurred after the…

What does it take to make history?

By admin | March 9, 2019

A Revolutionary Woman – Deborah Sampson During Women’s History Month we think back to an inspired performance at History Camp Boston 2017 featuring Deborah Sampson, a Contiental Army soldier from 1782 to 1783. This powerful performance created an emotional connection to the past and helped us to understand what it takes to make history. This…

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It takes a village of institutions to make an exhibit

By admin | February 11, 2019

  Telling the history of Roxbury, Massachusetts in SO many pictures Let us imagine a time warp where the 17th-century preacher and evangelist John Eliot is saying “good day” to 20th-century activist Malcolm Little, aka Malcolm X, while on his way to the First Church in Roxbury meetinghouse in the center of town. They each…

20 Years Along the Blackstone River

By admin | May 10, 2018

The falls that made Woonsocket famous Creating a the Anniversary Exhibit With the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Museum of Work and Culture, part of the Rhode Island Historical Society, director Anne Conway knew what was needed to complement the existing exhibits. Well-represented in the Museum is the story of French-Canadian immigration, life on the…

Staying ahead of the current

By admin | January 31, 2018

Planning interpretation along the Current River in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Home to the most significant number of first magnitude springs in the world and the Current River, the Riverways has been a National Park for 53 years. Before that, there were several Missouri State Parks, Big Spring and Round Spring for instance, that…

Illuminating the Luminaries

By admin | November 17, 2017

A space to recognize world-class innovation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Innovation was a key ingredient in our exhibit which harnessed the power of interactives to extend the WPI Hall of Luminaries brand identity to exhibit graphics, awards, and multi-media. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) alumni have made outsized contributions to the world of scientific innovation. If you…

Bonding With Clients Over Historical Finishes

By admin | July 19, 2017

Wallpaper therapy isn’t easy It was a typical onsite job meeting, representatives from the builders, owners, and designers crowded around folding tables discussing agenda items at the Dillaway Thomas House while construction went on around them. Next on the agenda was a milestone in the design-build process, to review finishes and historical wallpaper submittals by the…

Exhibit Makes Way For The Future

By admin | May 22, 2017

How Exhibit Spaces Can Change Roles Watch this video to see how an exhibit designed to move can transform a gallery. The challenge was to create an interactive exhibit and a changeable gallery suitable for community events. Our solution was to make this substantial installation easily moveable so that a small staff can quickly relocate the…

Exhibiting 18th-century “Tupperware”

By admin | January 22, 2017

Developing themes around piggins, boxes, and buckets at the new Hingham Heritage Museum In the old colonial days, just what did you do with your leftover porridge? Or kept your beans, barley, and groats? Or laundered your clothes or cured your meat? In 1700 almost 30 coopers worked in Hingham, 245 years before Tupperware was…