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A podcast on exhibition planning and design for museum leaders, exhibition teams, and visitor experience professionals.
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- Lost in Translation: The Multilingual Museum in the Age of AI, with Will Lach · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 72Can AI be trusted to translate all our museum catalogs, artwork labels, and gallery guides well, by itself? (Hint: Nope. And we’ll find out why.) Can a machine capture what an…
- Testing the Right Thing at the Right Time, with Jessica Sickler · 1 h 11 min · Episodul 71Why can’t we just ask our visitors what they want? Why bother evaluating our design ideas? Which type of evaluation is the biggest bang for your buck? Why is “timing and…
- Innovation Secrets of the Museum of Science, with Mike Horvath · 1 h 13 min · Episodul 70[ASTC 2026 Special] Science changes fast. How can science museums keep up? What’s a “technology toolkit”? Can one interactive turn into another? Can you do that same trick with…
- The 9/11 Museum, 25 Years After 9/11, with Mark Wagner · 1 h 20 min · Episodul 69A very special episode of Making the Museum, for the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. The unique, unforgettable story of the architect who found himself on the 9/11 debris pile right…
- Improving the Visitor Experience with Data, with Ryan Auster · 59 min · Episodul 68If we’re not studying our visitors, how can we fulfill our mission? What is a net promoter score? And what should a museum’s net promoter score be? How do you ask a survey…
- What Museums Can Learn from Casinos, Theme Parks, Sports, and More, with Renée Hampton · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 67What could museums learn right now — from their competitors? What’s happening out there that museums should know about? How can museums compete with a sports venue that has…
- Make Space for Change (The New Book), with Femke Bijlsma · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 66How can exhibitions create positive change in the world? Why is play the key? How can we build trust with a community that doesn’t know us? Why should exhibition makers preserve…
- Liminal Space Research, with Dan Clevenger, Monika Smith, and Helen Ho · 53 min · Episodul 65Museum lobbies have a huge influence on visitor experience. But what makes a good lobby? What is a “liminal space” in a museum? How does research actually work? What does…
- “Building a Museum: This is Not a Manual” (the New Book), with Jamē Anderson, Monteil Crawley, Sarah Ghorbanian & Chris Wood · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 64How do you build a museum? How do you build the right project team? How do you engage with community? What does it mean to plan a museum? What does it mean to design a museum?…
- “Serious Fun” at First Americans Museum, with Shoshana Wasserman, Kimberly Rodriguez, and Bill Smith · 1 h 18 min · Episodul 63How do you design for all ages at the same time? What is “serious fun”? Does nature ever go out of style? How do you create content for both Native and non-Native audiences? What…
- What Is Sustainable Exhibition Design? with Douglas Flandro · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 62How can we make our exhibitions more sustainable — in every way? Where do we start? What can museum teams learn from sustainability advancements in architecture? What’s a “red…
- Inclusive Design Will Change the World, with Sina Bahram & Corey Timpson · 1 h 5 min · Episodul 61One in four people has a disability. Why aren’t we designing museums better for them? What is inclusive design? How does it relate to universal design, or the ADA? Which…
- A Collaborative Approach to Exhibition Making (The New Book), with Emily Saich & Joey Noelle Scott · 1 h 2 min · Episodul 59Is there a better way to collaborate? What’s the secret to good feedback? How do you manage 40 people in a room? Are group facilitators ever truly neutral? Should you tell your…
- Making the Medal of Honor Museum, with Bassam Komati · 52 min · Episodul 58Is a museum where experiences happen — or is the museum the experience? Can a museum be designed to inspire? What is the Medal of Honor? What role does a bold design idea have in…
- Mission: Collaboration, with Barbara Miller and Danae Colomer · 57 min · Episodul 57What are the (top) secrets of better collaboration? Is collaboration like a game of ping pong? Or more like ballroom dancing? Is there a better way to disagree? Does having…
- The Art of Choosing a Museum Architect, with Susanna Sirefman · 57 min · Episodul 56How do you choose the right architect for your museum? Is architecture about more than a building? Is architect selection about more than architecture? What is a design “brief”?…
- Think Like a Children's Museum, with Edwin Link · 1 h 10 min · Episodul 55What if every museum were more like ... a children’s museum? Why is play “agnostic”? Can you design an entire museum for every generation, all at the same time? How are…
- A Museum Transformed with AI, with Kimberly Beaudin & Geoff Thatcher · 1 h 6 min · Episodul 54What can we learn from one of the most complex AI projects in any museum today? What is the history of AI in museums? Can we add AI to our experiences without a complete…
- Creating Effective Museum Experiences, with Lynda Roscoe Hartigan · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 53What if the secret to better museums was … neuroscience? How can museums inspire human creativity? How much media should be in a gallery — or should there be any? How soon…
- Museum as Lab, with Ann Neumann · 58 min · Episodul 52What if a museum were more like a laboratory? What if our exhibits were experiments? What if our galleries were more about questions, rather than answers? What if we didn’t fear…
