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Accenture is a national capital program and project advisory firm offering solutions to public and private
sector clients implementing capital projects and programs. We bring best practice knowledge, technical
expertise, and a strong network of industry-leading professionals focused on the institutional market that we
can mobilize and scale to meet your needs.
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Studio A | Acentech is a specialized team of acoustics consultants and audiovisual designers within Acentech, focused on cultural and performing arts venues. We collaborate with art institutions and architects to facilitate arts-centered design, and to create new, extended or renewed facilities for tomorrow’s performing and visual arts.
We are one of the oldest and largest organizations of our type with roots stretching back more than 70 years, offering acoustics, audiovisual, telecommunications, security, and vibration consulting services to the built environment. We are unequaled partners to architects, engineers, institutions, manufacturers, planners, and designers worldwide.
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Adler Display has been designing and fabricating exhibits for museum and visitor centers for over 80 years. The exhibits include display cases, interactive displays, wall murals, interpretive panels as well as way-finding signage.
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Aegis Property Group, a leading owner’s representative firm, stands out in the industry for its comprehensive portfolio of work, highly skilled team, and longevity and reputation. Since its inception in 1980, Aegis has provided project management and real estate advisory services on hundreds of projects in the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond, including many transformative museum projects, successfully delivering end results that align with each client’s vision. Aegis offers a wide range of services from master and strategic planning, feasibility studies and assessments, to full scale project management through all phases of a project’s development. Aegis adapts its services to each client uniquely to ensure a level of service and accountability that meets a client’s internal needs and processes. A suite of proprietary project management tools and protocols, combined with a team possessing strong technical backgrounds in architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management, give Aegis the ability to effectively handle any challenge that may arise during a project’s timeline.
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Altieri has provided MEPF engineering design services to architects and building owners for over 65 years. Our reputation as an industry leader is based on the seamless integration of environmentally responsible systems within architecturally challenging environments. A Small Business Enterprise (SBE) certified by the State of Connecticut, the firm has twice been awarded the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Most Innovative Project for design creativity – 2022 Glenstone Museum and 2020 Corning Museum of Glass, Contemporary Art + Design Wing and Amphitheater Hot Shop.
Altieri is entrusted with designing optimal environments for cultural, education, community, and historic projects nationwide and beyond. Decades of design experience have been driven by our imperative to engineer the best solutions for each project, ensuring that our designs are sensitive to architectural integrity, support the creative vision of our clients, and enhance the user experience. With a portfolio of over 900 museum and gallery projects, we bring unmatched experience and expertise in designing systems that prioritize both collection preservation and the visitor experience. Whether supporting new construction or revitalizing existing buildings, we are recognized for aligning our work with project goals, respecting architectural integrity, and fostering early and ongoing collaboration.
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As the nation’s leading publisher of books of local nonfiction and rarely explored pockets of history, Arcadia’s mission is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another. Arcadia has a remarkable catalog of over 20,000 titles exploring the story of America, one town or community at a time. Using its proprietary Store Match system, Arcadia can create a highly customized hyper-local book assortment for any storefront in the nation
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Arup is a global collective of engineers, designers and consultants, that brings over 50 years of award-winning expertise to the world’s most inspiring museum and exhibit design projects. From heritage restorations to new museum design, Arup’s multidisciplinary teams expertly blend structural, building systems, acoustics, facades, lighting, sustainability and technology design disciplines to create future-ready cultural landmarks.
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Ayers Saint Gross works with a diverse range of cultural organizations and institutions including museums, libraries, visitor centers, educational institutions, and cultural landscapes to create immersive experiences of engagement and discovery.
In “Designing for Cultural Experiences,” we share projects and stories about our work designing for cultural institutions. Our interdisciplinary team works with clients to explore opportunities for creative, of-the-moment storytelling within landscape and buildings, while providing a framework for long-term evolution and flexibility.
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Becker & Frondorf specializes in Owner’s Representation and Construction Cost Estimating. Two services that are especially valuable to museums undertaking new construction, renovation, or expansion. We understand the unique challenges cultural institutions face, from preserving collections and engaging diverse stakeholders to balancing tight budgets and complex timelines. Our team serves as a trusted advisor throughout the entire process, advocating for the museum’s best interests every step of the way. We help museums define their project goals, select the right design and construction partners, manage budgets and schedules, and ensure the final result supports both mission and visitor experience. Whether navigating historic preservation requirements or planning state-of-the-art exhibition spaces, we bring clarity, accountability, and deep industry knowledge to every project.
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Bridgewater Studio is a full-service experiential design and fabrication agency with a multidisciplinary in-house team. With all capabilities in-house from concept through fabrication and installation we’re able to move quickly, meet tight deadlines, and deliver a consistently high-quality product.
We work alongside leading global brands, educational and cultural institutions to bring museum experiences, retail environments, and corporate space buildouts to life.
We pride ourselves on honest communication, solid craftsmanship, and reliable creative problem-solving bringing bold ideas to life in ways that are practical, durable, and built to perform in the real world.
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The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) is the premiere professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it’s applied across various fields including museums and cultural centers. Rooted in Carnegie Mellon University’s legacy of excellence in the arts and sciences, the ETC blends creative exploration with technical rigor in a uniquely collaborative environment. Our students learn by doing: through project-based work,interdisciplinary collaboration, and mentorship from faculty and industry leaders.
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Casewerks, LLC celebrates 25 years as a trusted resource for museums, libraries, and collecting institutions. As the North American agent for Vitrinen- und Glasbau REIER GmbH, Casewerks is part of an elite global network providing museum-quality exhibit furnishings distinguished by precision engineering, advanced glass technology, and security. With a focus on archival methods and sustainable materials, our mission is to deliver practical, long-lasting solutions that ensure the preservation of fine art, historic artifacts, and cultural heritage for future generations.
Call 1-800-810-2852 or visit http://www.casewerks.com to learn more.
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Click Netherfield are museum showcase experts, with more than 50 combined years of showcase manufacturing and consultancy experience.
Our job is to make your life easier. From concept to completion, we’ll give you everything you need to make your project a success.
With headquarters just outside of Edinburgh in Scotland, Click Netherfield have been winning awards since the 1980s and have been Royal Warrant holders since 2010, so it’s no wonder that we’ve been chosen to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects.
We have the IN-HOUSE resources to complete the largest international projects, and the customer focus to provide the highest levels of service.
We are Click Netherfield – let us showcase your vision.
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Consigli Construction Co., Inc. is a leading construction manager in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Consigli services clients across all markets, including academic, healthcare, life sciences, institutional, energy, corporate and federal. Founded in 1905, Consigli is now a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) company, providing its people a direct benefit of its success and creating a culture of accountability. The company has offices in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, New Hampshire and the Caribbean. Consigli has received numerous awards for its craftsmanship and employment practices, including national recognition as a Forbes Best Employer.
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The Cooperstown Graduate Program is proud to be like no other. We train creative, entrepreneurial museum leaders committed to generating programs and services for the public good. Our students learn by doing tangible, useful work on real-world projects. They dedicate themselves to developing institutions that play a central role in their communities, encouraging broad public audiences to use artifacts and the study of science, art, and history as a catalyst for social change.
Students choose to focus on one of two tracks during their time at CGP: Science Museum Studies and History Museum Studies. Both tracks have a generalist curriculum, so students explore many aspects of museum work.
Our students benefit from small class sizes and a high faculty to student ratio. This allows students to get to know and work closely with professors, who are leaders and innovators in the field. Although CGP itself is a small program, as an academic division of SUNY College at Oneonta students also have access to the resources of a much larger state university.
We love to connect with prospective students, professionals in the field, alumni, or anyone interested in museum studies! Follow us on Twitter and check out our Facebook page.
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Corgan is an employee-owned architecture and design firm with 21 locations and more than 1,200 team members globally. The firm, ranked as the No. 4 architecture firm by Building Design + Construction, works with clients in a variety of sectors including aviation & transportation, data centers, education, government, health, hospitality & retail, mixed-use, multifamily, office, urban, campus & cultural, and workplace. The firm’s core disciplines are supported by a wide range of supplemental services including brand & graphics, furniture services, master planning and sustainability – all of which have a singular goal: to build environments where clients thrive. Founded in 1938, Corgan has developed a strong reputation for agility in design by anticipating marketplace changes and leading clients to thoughtful, data-driven design solutions. Its research insights and design expertise empower the organization to foresee emerging changes and develop solutions that minimize risk, create flexibility, and maximize longevity. To learn more about Corgan, visit http://www.corgan.com.
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CORIS Monitoring provides environmental monitoring systems to institutions of all sizes. Besides temperature and relative humidity, we also provide water sensors for leak detection, door open sensors, sensors for LN2 tanks and -80C freezers, light sensors, alarm port sensors (usually NO/NC), and others. Our systems both permanently log all sensor readings, and they they send out alerts when conditions are outside acceptable limits, to provide time to protect collections and exhibits. Pricing and support keep our customers happy!
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D&P is the oldest and largest museum fabricator in the United States and prides itself on being able to serve its clients as a “one-stop shop” for all their exhibit, lighting, and AV needs within any given project.
Working with a wide range of museums, designers, architects, general contractors, and a variety of other stakeholders, D&P tackles highly complex, multi-discipline projects in the U.S. and abroad.
Our services for design/build and design/bid contracts include owner’s representation/program management, pre-construction services, exhibition design management, project management, prototyping, exhibit planning, engineering, detailing, exhibit fabrication and installation (including archival casework), graphic design support and production, media hardware and lighting integration, and artifact mounting.
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DLR Group is an integrated architecture, engineering, and specialty discipline firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This promise fuels the work we do around the world, enriching communities and empowering creative expression. Our award-winning portfolio comprises over 40 museum projects of diverse scales and contexts. These projects encompass traditional object-based gallery spaces as well as interactive exhibits and technology-rich environments. Current clients include the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Arizona Science Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, and Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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Founded in 1934, ERCO is a global leader in museum and architectural lighting. Made in Germany, our LED solutions enhance exhibitions while preserving artifacts. Trusted by institutions like the Louvre, National Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, ERCO delivers precision, consistency, and sustainability. From galleries to outdoor spaces, our modular tools transform environments—making light the fourth dimension of architecture.
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EwingCole’s vision is to design places that elevate the human experience; our goal is to build a design culture that can transform the most common buildings and landscapes into meaningful experiences. We bring together research, creativity, and technology through a rigorous process to create places where people live, learn, heal, work, and play.
Galleries and exhibit spaces allow us to step into the past, interpret its meaning, and look to the future. Working directly with exhibit, we enable those stories to be told in new and meaningful ways, designing and planning spaces that allow for flexibility in showcasing various types of collections and accommodating different exhibit formats. From large institutions to small museums, we create transformative environments that educate and inspire, incorporating interactive displays, multimedia installations, and hands-on activities to engage visitors and enhance the learning experience.
In addition to the featured exhibits and collections, many of our museum designs include retail and food service spaces that are inspired by the museum’s mission and are informed by their environment and surroundings. We work closely with clients and expert consultants to create one-of-a-kind experiences based on data-driven decisions and increased opportunities for revenue generation, providing spaces for visitors to relax, socialize, and enjoy refreshments within the cultural complex.
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Every display or preservation project is unique. At Gaylord Archival, we understand the challenges you face and can provide the customized solutions you need, plus the best value, quality, selection and support.
More than a showcase, our innovative, patent-pending exhibit solution is hugely scalable yet easily accessible. Learn about the AXS Showcase System: gaylord.com/axs
Shop our complete selection of exhibit & display cases, supplies and accessories or get help from our exhibit consultants. We Are Exhibit: gaylord.com/we-are-exhibit
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Saving history is a big job, and the work you do to defend and protect cultural treasures enriches us all. We’re proud to be your partner in preservation.
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Founded in 1952, Goppion is the global leader in the design and construction of museum display cases and complex exhibition fit outs, delivering solutions that meet the highest standards of conservation and security. From the beginning, Goppion has combined engineering excellence with a deep understanding of museum needs, working closely with museologists, curators, and architects to develop solutions that both protect and showcase masterpieces. Our craftsmanship is trusted by the world’s most prestigious institutions, including the Louvre, the Tower of London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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GWWO specializes in the design of inspirational, evocative, and progressive museum environments. The firm’s thorough and thoughtful design philosophy results in projects unique to each institution, each with a keen focus on supporting and maximizing the Museum’s mission.
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Established in 1965, Hartman-Cox Architects is a Washington, DC-based firm that continuously produces award-winning, imaginative and responsible design for institutional, educational and civic clients. There are three partners: Mary Kay Lanzillotta, FAIA, Scott Teixeira, FAIA, and Carl Holden, AIA, who are all actively engaged in the design and management of projects in a highly collaborative environment.
Hartman-Cox is particularly noted for its sensitivity and response to site and context, as well as its stylistic flexibility which has consistently created buildings that are appropriate to their surroundings and their function. The firm has won over 160 design awards, including six American Institute of Architects Honor Awards, the Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture, the 2006 Arthur Ross Award for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects Architectural Firm Award, the highest award the AIA bestows on a firm for design.
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We’re a full-service museum and experiential design firm staffed by talented and passionate graphics and exhibit designers. We create successful visitor experiences through museum master planning, exhibition design, environmental graphics, branding, and print communications. We collaborate with our clients to tell engaging, meaningful stories through multi-faceted visitor experiences.
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HGA’s nationally recognized arts and culture practice is a creative and collaborative team who uses our expertise and passion for the arts to design beautiful, sustainable, and equitable environments. We offer a multidisciplinary team that specializes in the planning and design of museums, galleries, collections/archives storage, and related cultural amenities. We collaborate with our clients to create cultural centers that reflect and inspire the communities they serve, providing interactive spaces for exhibition, learning, research, performance, and community engagement.
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ikon.5 architects is an award-winning, New York City based architecture practice that provides its clients with innovative and sustainable design solutions that exhibit a high level of craft, are aesthetically refined, carefully detailed, and achieve design excellence. Practicing nationally, our clients include museums and cultural institutions, non-profit organizations, colleges and universities, governmental bodies, and corporations. We distill an architecture that responds to a broad constituency, is uniquely tailored to its setting, and connects people with places and activities in meaningful ways. Our collaborative working style, unwavering commitment to design excellence, and exceptional client service has resulted in a high level of return clients and earned the firm over 100 global design awards, as well as multiple nominations for the National Design Award by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and recognition by Architizer as the Best Public Project Firm in the United States.
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With decades of experience in artifact relocation and installation, IWEISS brings unmatched expertise and care to every project. Our team includes certified riggers and artifact handling specialists who understand the unique challenges of working with irreplaceable items. From mounting mammal skeletons to suspending over 90 aviation artifacts, we ensure safe, precise execution every step of the way.
IWEISS combines curatorial awareness with technical skill, offering custom fabricated rigging attachments and conveyance systems tailored to each artifact’s needs. Our team includes certified lift operators and licensed structural engineers available across all 50 states, allowing us to work seamlessly with museums, institutions, and architects nationwide.
Every detail is handled in-house, from submittals and drafting to final installation with a deep commitment to preservation standards and project coordination. Whether the goal is permanent exhibition or secure relocation, IWEISS delivers trusted solutions that protect the integrity and history of every artifact we touch.
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JGL Consultants is a boutique food service and retail consultancy specializing in cultural institutions. The firm has worked with more than 300 cultural organizations across the US and Canada at various stages of development. Our specialty is working with the owner and architect to develop visitor food service, facility rental, and retail programs that enhance the guest experience and maximize earned income potential.
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Kohler Ronan is a multi-disciplined engineering consultancy providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology design, along with energy analysis, sustainable design, and commissioning services. From offices in Danbury, CT, and New York, NY, our 70+ professionals collaborate with leading architects on regional and nationally recognized projects. Our portfolio spans cultural and academic institutions as well as historically significant buildings across the country.
Founded in 1998, the firm’s seven partners bring nearly 200 years of combined experience. Kohler Ronan is recognized for its innovative approach to sustainable design, with nearly 20 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff and a growing portfolio of net-zero, net-zero-ready, and high-performance building projects. One partner also holds WELL AP, Fitwel Ambassador, Living Future, and Certified Passive House Designer credentials. The firm is a certified Small Business Enterprise (SBE) and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
We are approved Technical Consultants under NYSERDA’s Commercial New Construction and FlexTech programs and Connecticut’s Energize CT initiative, providing energy modeling and commissioning to help clients improve efficiency and access incentives. Kohler Ronan is also a signatory of the Carbon Leadership Forum’s MEP 2040 Challenge.
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MGAC is an owner’s representation consultancy and advisory firm dedicated to managing and representing our clients’ interests. MGAC’s Cultural practice has been privileged with delivering a wide range of challenging cultural projects across North America and internationally. Our success is rooted in hiring exceptional people who are driven to do challenging project management work with the experience, integrity, creativity, and commitment that separates us from our competitors.
Our objective is to implement the owner’s vision and create educational, inspirational, and immersive environments. We achieve this through various services, including strategic museum planning; exhibit design management; museum operations development; design and construction management; budget and schedule control; assistance for the care and handling of artifacts; procurement and installation of Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment (FF&E). Additionally, we coordinate the interplay between conservators, architects, engineers, exhibit designers, media producers, exhibit fabricators, and contractors.
Our team’s work in MGAC’s Cultural practice is meaningful because we help our clients create more than buildings. Cultural institutions and public artworks offer local community members access to contemplative space, and the opportunity to actively participate with meaningful cultural experiences. How these planned experiences become real, is where MGAC brings experienced leadership to a project.
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Monadnock designs and produces powerful and provocative media experiences for museums and other cultural institutions. We work closely with architects, designers, and museum staff to seamlessly integrate media into the visitor experience. Our commitment to engaging audiences, uplifting less heard voices and stories, and conveying honest history and science, combined with our expertise in technology, results in novel experiences across every media form: immersive theaters, interactive environments, multiplayer games, AR/VR, and more.
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From museums and airports to theaters and restaurants, Morlights creates lighting experiences that are immersive, memorable, and transformative. Based in Chicago, Morlights is an award-winning firm known for pushing the boundaries of design—using light as a storytelling medium that shapes architecture and experience.
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Mueller Associates is an MEP/FP engineering firm with 60 years of specialized experience serving museums, special collections, and cultural institutions.
Mueller has built a national reputation for engineering excellence on projects that demand extraordinary technical sophistication and cultural sensitivity. Our cultural facilities portfolio includes landmark institutions such as the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art, among others. We’ve provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering services for complex renovations, expansions, and new construction projects where protecting irreplaceable collections is paramount.
Mueller’s engineers understand the unique environmental requirements of museums and special collections facilities—from precise humidity and temperature control to specialized fire suppression systems and security integration. Our work encompasses everything from historic preservation projects that require sensitive interventions to cutting-edge installations that incorporate smart building technologies.
Beyond engineering design, Mueller is deeply committed to the cultural facilities community. We actively participate in professional organizations like MAAM, sharing knowledge and advancing best practices. Our collaborative approach brings together technical expertise, institutional experience, and genuine passion for preserving and presenting our shared cultural heritage.
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The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is the official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Created in 1945, we are responsible for the collection, conservation, and interpretation of Pennsylvania’s historic heritage, which we accomplish through the Pennsylvania State Archives, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Trails of History (historic sites and museums), the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, and the Bureau of Management Services.
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Pepper Construction Company is a family owned business that began in 1927. Our mission is to continuously improve people’s quality of life through the built world. This is done through our core values of safety, integrity, stewardship, diversity, partnership, leadership and enjoying life.
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Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.
That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal.
We’re committed to Living Design, an approach that integrates environmental, social, and design considerations to advance ecological health and well-being. Interior Design named Perkins&Will a “Sustainability Giant” in 2024; Architizer named us the world’s “Best Sustainable Firm” in 2023, and Metropolis named us “Firm of the Year” in 2022 for our industry leadership in advancing climate action and social justice. Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture three times, and in 2021, it added Perkins&Will to its list of Brands That Matter—making us the first architecture practice in the world to earn the distinction.
With an international team of more than 2,400 professionals, we have over 30 studios worldwide, providing integrated services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, and landscape architecture.
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Since 1989, Quatrefoil has been creating immersive engagement opportunities for museums, parks, and visitor centers. From master planning to graphic design, media production to digital interactives, project management to full exhibition design, we are your one-stop-shop for exhibitions that are flexible, memorable, and uniquely fun.
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Relative Scale is a creative agency that partners with brands and institutions to deliver bespoke media experiences, and our mission is to help add meaning and fulfillment to the human experience. Prioritizing an understanding of the target audience, the spatial environment, and the tone and tenor of the message, the philosophy that underlies our creative approach is based on the careful consideration of scale—both physical and conceptual—in every media experience we produce.
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Riggs Ward Design (RWD) is an award-winning design and media development studio located in Richmond, Virginia. Since 1997, our team has provided exhibition and interactive design, strategic master planning, research, content analysis, storyline development, and exhibit script writing for established, new, and emerging museums, visitor centers, and cultural institutions.
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Insurance broker focused on delivering loss control and insurance solutions to the museum community.
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Roto is a premier experience design and production firm serving the museum, aquarium, zoo, and attraction markets. Organized into a dynamic network of multidisciplinary design and technology studios, we thrive on creating bespoke environments that foster genuine human connections through nature, play, creativity, science, and multisensory immersion.
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Schwartz/Silver is a nationally recognized practice that is committed to architectural excellence in the public realm. We serve museums, libraries, academic institutions, and public agencies in New England and across the country with work that is respectful of the physical context, inquisitive in approach, and authentic to its own place in history.
At Schwartz/Silver, we believe that well-managed collaboration drives innovation and lasting design quality. Each project is an adventure defined by the particular circumstances and participants, rather than reflecting a standard design style or process. We frequently work within historic and/or urban settings to adapt existing buildings or create new ones; we are problem solvers, developing elegant, often unexpected, solutions to difficult design challenges. We create projects that are relevant and responsive, and architecture that strengthens and supports the evolving needs of communities.
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Science shapes every aspect of our daily lives, but people rarely understand how, why, or where that happens. The Science History Institute is a free museum and library that serves as a trusted cultural resource. We share the “stories behind the science” to encourage people to think differently about the role of science in their world. Because science has a story.
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Shawmut Design and Construction is a $2.3 billion national construction management firm with a reputation for completing extremely complex and logistically challenging projects. As a 100% employee-owned company, Shawmut has created a culture of ownership, proactive solution-making, and forward-thinking. Over 80 percent of its business comes from repeat clients, with a strong focus on building lasting partnerships. Shawmut has 15 offices, including Boston, Worcester, Providence, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. For more information, please visit http://www.shawmut.com.
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SmithGroup is a fully integrated architecture and engineering firm with a dedicated Cultural Practice focused exclusively on the planning and design of museums.
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Solid Light has delivered award-winning visitor experiences for museums, tourism and cultural institutions, corporate environments, and public spaces nationwide since 1999. For more information about Solid Light, Inc., visit https://solidlight-inc.com/.
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Protect the past and prepare for the future with Spacesaver’s museum cabinets, art screens, compactors, shelving, and more. Our engineers and project managers team up with your local distributor to provide design assistance, installation, and maintenance for any museum, large or small. Contact us to arrange a free on-site consultation.
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Studio Gang is an internationally recognized architecture and urban design practice founded and led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang. Based in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris, the Studio works as a collective of over 100 architects, designers, and planners that use an iterative, research-based design process to create places that strengthen relationships between people, communities, and the natural world.
Studio Gang’s diverse, award-winning portfolio includes cultural centers, public spaces, and strategic framework plans, across architecture, planning, interiors, and exhibitions. Notable among these are the American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation in New York and the reimagined Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. Studio Gang also develops research, publications, and exhibitions that push design’s ability to create public awareness and give rise to change—a practice the Studio calls “actionable idealism.” Jeanne Gang’s most recent book, “The Art of Architectural Grafting,” provides a new framework for bringing new life to older structures.
The Studio has been honored with numerous awards, including AIA California’s 2025 Firm of the Year, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company in Architecture, and Architizer’s A+ Firm of the Year Award.
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The Design Minds provides full-service, content-based exhibit design, content development and scriptwriting, and interpretive planning to museums, visitor centers, corporations, and other public and private institutions. Our process is rooted in thoughtful design: seeking creative, meaningful solutions that maximize both client value and audience experience. Embracing and celebrating cultural differences produces superior products, and we strive to embed these principles in every aspect of our work.
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The Frick Pittsburgh offers authentic experiences with art, history and nature that inspire and delight. Visitors of all ages and backgrounds are warmly welcomed to explore collections of fine and decorative arts, vehicles, historic objects, and buildings – including Clayton, the Frick family home and only intact Gilded Age mansion remaining from Pittsburgh’s Millionaire’s Row – left as a legacy to the people of Pittsburgh by Helen Clay Frick, daughter of noted industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. Alongside these treasures, the Frick offers an active schedule of temporary exhibitions and programs on our 10-acre garden campus in the heart of Pittsburgh’s East End.
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Whiting-Turner provides construction management, general contracting, design-build and integrated project delivery services on projects small and large for a diverse group of customers. We constantly strive to exceed each client’s expectations through innovation, collaboration and best practices.
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In the United States, TYLin’s Buildings Sector currently comprises 200+ professionals including 70+ professional engineers and 20+ LEED accreditedpersonnel. Our personnel bring creativity, a collaborative ethos, and technical excellence to buildings of all types and scales. We are located across the country with offices in New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Boston, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, and San Antonio
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Venue is a professional cost consultancy firm dedicated exclusively to museums and cultural arts facilities—that’s all we do, day in and day out.
For more than 20 years, our work has taken us across the United States and internationally, with past and current projects in 17 countries, 39 U.S. states, and 196 U.S. cities.
Within the cultural projects community, Venue is known for its ability to accurately predict construction costs from the earliest master plan, program, or concept design, and to guide projects confidently through the design phases while maintaining budget alignment. Our track record of forecasting bid outcomes from early-stage estimates is consistently strong and widely trusted by owners and design teams alike.
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Ziger|Snead Architects is an award-winning Baltimore-based studio working at the intersection of history, sustainability, and community to craft enduring environments. Founded in 1984, the firm has built a legacy rooted in civic, cultural, and institutional work, adaptive reuse, and a refined commitment to design that enriches places and people.
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Zubatkin Owner Representation, A Cumming Group Company specializes in the planning and management of capital construction projects for not-for-profit organizations, including museum, cultural, educational, and performing arts clients. We oversee all aspects of a project’s development – from initial real estate analysis, master planning and programming through design, construction, and facility operations. Our portfolio ranges from historic restorations, exhibit development work, and tenant fit-outs to large-scale expansions and new construction.
Over our 30-year history, our evolution has been based on assembling the right expertise and resources to help institutions navigate the design, implementation, and operational challenges inherent in the development of cultural projects. As an integrated part of Cumming Group, we have over 3,000 professionals across the United States with specialties in museum planning, construction management, cost estimating, engineering, architecture, exhibit design & fabrication, landscape architecture, and facility operations & maintenance.