Riona Romeo asks, “Can an exhibition be a story?” in this article, where she points out several challenges facing museum exhibitions as storytelling medium. 1. Exhibitions are often nonlinear. You cannot necessarily move people through a story or story-like experience, such as those carefully crafted by Disney parks. Essential …
¡Viva Baja! Life on the Edge opens at Monterey Bay Aquarium in May! Working on research for this exhibit was both amazing and depressing. I learned about so many incredible species, many adapted for extreme environments and found nowhere else in the world—but most are extremely threatened and could disappear …
Is the commercialization of museums the “new normal”? Nonprofit status subsidizes museums through the public tax code. The status was invented more than a century ago to foster diversity of independent thought, free from the narrow economic demands of business or the ideological commands of government. Today, that independence is …
My latest article—an opinion piece—just came out in Museum magazine (January 2014 issue). In it, I talk about a variety of initiatives that extend science education/communication beyond the walls of museums. The digital edition is available to members of the American Alliance of Museums.
