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
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
When visitors speak many languages
How museums in the Netherlands communicate with visitors who speak different languages.
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
Help exhibit visitors organize their experience
Repeated elements, a text hierarchy, and lighting design give people useful frameworks.
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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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