The Museum Arts Blog
Loving Care for Family Treasures
If you live with treasured antiques, treat them as you would like to be treated. Artifacts made of fabric, wood, paper, or plastic are safest in the same conditions that make humans comfortable. Anything else is destructive.
Read MoreCaptivate Repeat Visitors with Little to No Budget
In order to keep your museum from getting stale, we have a few suggestions on how to keep repeat visitors engaged without redoing your whole collection.
Read MoreInteractive Exhibits: What’s Best for Your Museum – Digital or Analog?
Let’s face it-exhibits can be very expensive! Interactivity adds even more costs to a basic exhibit. For the sake of argument, I’m generically dividing museum interactive exhibits into 2 categories-Digital and Analog. We’ll call Digital…
Read MoreMuseum Maintenance Tips To Keep Exhibits Looking New
Walking into a museum, it becomes clear very quickly if the museum and its exhibits and artifacts are a priority to the establishment. Burned out bulbs, dusty artifacts, smudged glass, and worn and faded graphics…
Read MoreFounder of Museum Arts, commercial artist Charles Paramore…
There’s a rough sketch pinned to the drawing table, a magnifying glass mounted alongside it. Art pencils, an eraser, a draftsman’s triangle, and careless pencil shavings litter the cabinet top beside the table. A pair…
Read MoreThe Springfield Nature Center gets a turtle tank like no other…
This custom built tank will house turtles inside the nature center. The mural art on the front was created by using pictures from the woods and creeks just outside the center. The details: A large…
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