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National capital program and project advisory firm offering solutions to public and private sector clients implementing capital projects and programs. The consulting services we provide cover the entire lifecycle of capital development, starting with early-stage organizational readiness and delivery strategy through managing the tactical execution of projects. We have a diverse and talented team of over 900 professionals, including architects, engineers, construction managers, inspectors, project managers, estimators, certified professional accountants, management consultants, financial analysts, procurement specialists, system configuration specialists, and construction auditors.
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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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Aegis Property Group, a leading owner’s representative firm celebrating 45 years in business this year, 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 65 years. The firm is entrusted with designing optimal environments for museum, theatre and performing arts, higher education, and distinguished private residential projects. Our reputation as an industry leader is based on the seamless integration of environmentally responsible systems within architecturally challenging environments. Our work is valued by distinguished award-winning architects who have sought our imagination and expertise over many decades, and is recognized industry-wide with significant honors for innovation. 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: 2020 Corning Museum of Glass, Contemporary Art + Design Wing and Amphitheater Hot Shop, Most Innovative Project Under $100M and 2022 Glenstone Museum, Most Innovative Project Over $100M.
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Art Processors are leading experience designers shaping the world’s most memorable destinations. Partnering with cultural and tourism organizations, we apply bespoke technology and innovative storytelling to craft journeys that profoundly resonate with audiences. We are committed to genuine impact and building a better tomorrow through experiences that foster empathy and exploration. We champion diverse voices to craft stories that forge new perspectives. Create Worlds™ with Art Processors. Let’s reimagine, together.
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Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, advisors and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our museum clients and design collaborators using imagination, technology, and rigor to shape a better world. Our unsurpassed expertise in technical disciplines – acoustics; multimedia and lighting design; structural and mechanical engineering; façades; wayfinding; and more – allows us to provide practical insight throughout the life of a project.
Our extensive experience in creating unique museum spaces arises from a fascination with the way in which space can not only house art but also inspire artists in the creative process, ensuring that the functionality of art buildings is in line with the evolving concerns of artists, visitors, and institutions. From optimizing the visitor experience in both the physical and digital space, through to tackling issues around accessibility, equity and environmental sustainability, we work with our museum clients and collaborators to arrive at design solutions that meet their current and future needs.
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Atelier is a second-generation, full-
We have a proven track record of managing complex projects for museums, estates, and libraries. Our facilities include extensive, museum-quality storage space across the East Coast, fabrication shops for custom crating, and a fleet of climate-controlled, high-
With a team of over 125 skilled professionals, including client services, art handlers, technicians, project managers, and registrars, we provide comprehensive art care. Our expertise extends to collection management, with secure, climate-controlled storage options designed to preserve valuable artwork.
Atelier collaborates with a network of leading conservators, appraisers, and other specialists, enabling us to offer complete, end-to-end solutions tailored to each client’s specific needs.
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Ayers Saint Gross is an internationally recognized design firm that works with mission-driven clients to create places for shared knowledge and culture. Our work is driven by a respect for past wisdom, a mind to future potential, and an obligation to leave places better than we found them.
Our designers work with a diverse range of cultural organizations and institutions including museums, libraries, visitor centers, educational institutions, and cultural landscapes to create immersive experience of engagement and discovery.
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Becker & Frondorf specializes in guiding construction projects with precision and care. We offer two complementary services: Owner’s Representation and Construction Cost Estimating. Our skilled Project Managers and Estimators collaborate to ensure successful project outcomes while safeguarding our clients’ schedule and budgets. With expertise tailored to the unique needs of museums and cultural institutions, we are committed to delivering excellence at every stage of the construction process.
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Beyer Blinder Belle is comprised of 190 professionals in New York City, Washington, DC, and Boston engaged in architecture, planning, and interiors. BBB is committed to the process of institution-building in the fullest sense. Our portfolio includes performance venues, sacred spaces, museums, libraries, parks and gardens. We work collaboratively with our clients, sometimes at multiple sites and often over the course of many years, to create customized programs and inspired spaces that transform institutions.
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With the free Bloomberg Connects app, explore expert-curated content and guides to over 550 museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces from the palm of your hand. From behind-the-scenes guides, to artist and expert-curated video and audio content, Bloomberg Connects makes it easy to discover arts and culture, anytime, anywhere.
Created by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Connects benefits over 550 museums, galleries, gardens, and cultural spaces — with more joining every month — by providing a pre-built, easy-to use app interface customizable to their content and mission. We empower our partners with training, marketing, and technical support to deliver digital experiences to their visitors and a global audience.
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Established in 1970, BNIM is an employee-owned design company recognized as an innovative leader in designing high-performance, human-purposed environments. BNIM’s instrumental role in the development of the USGBC, LEED, and the Living Building concept, combined with projects, methods, and research, has shaped the direction of the sustainable movement. Through this involvement, the firm continues to redefine design excellence to elevate the human experience for all people in beautiful, equitable, inclusive, and healthy environments. In practice, this multifaceted approach to design excellence has yielded national acclaim, including the AIA National Architecture Firm Award, and consistent design recognition nationally and internationally. BNIM is Building Positive, a notion that describes how our practice leverages its collective capacity for design thinking to solve issues at every scale that is focused on building the positive attributes of community and the built environment. Through an integrated process of collaborative discovery, BNIM creates transformative, living designs that lead to vital and healthy organizations and communities.
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Buro Happold is an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers, with a presence in 35+ locations worldwide, over 80 partners and 2,500 employees. For over 45 years we have built a world-class reputation for delivering creative, value led solutions for an ever challenging world.
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Since 1954, C. Erickson & Sons, Inc., a family owned business, has been a premier leader in Commercial Construction Management and General Contracting throughout the region. Our founding principles of INTEGRITY, RELATIONSHIPS and SERVICE are the cornerstones of our professional partnerships and the keystones to our continued success.
For over 65 years, Erickson has been a part of shaping the Greater Philadelphia skyline through its growth, evolution and revitalization. We are proud to have served as the Construction Manager for some of the region’s largest and most recognizable companies and institutions. Our multitude of capabilities range from interior renovations to historical restorations, buildouts and additions, as well as new construction, all while delivering the highest quality craftsmanship and attentive customer service, making us a leader in our class.
Since 1954, C. Erickson & Sons, Inc., a family owned business, has been a premier leader in Commercial Construction Management and General Contracting throughout the region. Our founding principles of INTEGRITY, RELATIONSHIPS and SERVICE are the cornerstones of our professional partnerships and the keystones to our continued success.
For over 65 years, Erickson has been a part of shaping the Greater Philadelphia skyline through its growth, evolution and revitalization. We are proud to have served as the Construction Manager for some of the region’s largest and most recognizable companies and institutions. Our multitude of capabilities range from interior renovations to historical restorations, buildouts and additions, as well as new construction, all while delivering the highest quality craftsmanship and attentive customer service, making us a leader in our class.
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We are Click Netherfield, your favourite showcase experts.
For over 50 years, we have been working with institutions and communities from Royal Families and National Institutions, to Independent Galleries and Private Collectors. With roots in Scottish soil, and North American operations based in New Jersey, and projects completed around the globe, we are extraordinarily proud to have the distinct honor in working with the Museum Community in North America for over 25 years.
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, Rhode Island 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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Cooper Robertson is a leading New York-based architecture and urban design firm with a diverse body of work spanning all scales. From buildings to public spaces to cities, the firm is recognized nationally for design excellence with more than 150 awards for projects integrating architecture and urban design.
The firm’s renowned cultural portfolio, led by Partner Erin Flynn, RA and Bruce Davis, AIA, includes the reinvention and expansion of more than 55 museums internationally. Acknowledged as one of the foremost museum planning and design firm in the country, Cooper Robertson has completed new buildings for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Gateway Art Museum, as well as strategic planning and visioning for the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
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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, craftspeople, 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, and detailing, exhibit fabrication and installation (including archival casework), graphic design support and production, media hardware and lighting services, 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 includes more than 40 museum projects of varying scales and contexts. These projects encompass traditional object-based gallery spaces as well as immersive museums involving interactive exhibits and technology-rich environments. Current clients include the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Heard Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, and Cleveland Museum of Natural Science.
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Electrosonic is an award-winning audiovisual and technology services company. We created the AV industry in 1964 and continue to deliver the world’s largest and most complex projects. Our talented teams push the boundaries of audiovisual technology and provide a ‘start-to-finish’ service by designing, building and supporting impactful spaces in 44 countries around the globe.
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Elevativ provides strategic, market, economic and programmatic insights to varying place-based organizations and attractions worldwide.
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Owner’s Representation and Project Management
Our nimble team custom-tailors each project to your needs so it gets done on time, on budget, and with your program goal at the forefront.
We embrace every client’s unique culture and process and customize our management style accordingly.
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Founded in 1934, ERCO is a global leader in architectural and museum lighting, offering premium LED solutions that enhance exhibitions while preserving artifacts. Manufactured in Lüdenscheid, Germany, ERCO’s lighting tools ensure quality, consistency, and sustainability.
Trusted by world-class institutions like the Louvre, National Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, ERCO transforms spaces with precision and innovation. From galleries to outdoor areas, ERCO’s modular systems create immersive, efficient, and visitor-friendly 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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Fireline is an expert in fire alarm and suppression systems for cultural facilities. We offer solutions intended to minimize the impact to facilities and artifacts in the event of fire.
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With a focus on both physical and digital spaces, we integrate experience design and media with the physical environment to produce immersive storytelling experiences that engage, entertain and create measurable impact. We provide informed strategic services with a touch of disruptive creative execution. Our work delivers a harmony between technology, narrative, and physical design. We are the multidisciplinary firm equipped to bring your project from idea to reality.
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Gecko Group is a small, dedicated team passionate about creating excellent visitor experiences through relevant storytelling and beautiful design.
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If you are managing a construction project that uses heavy equipment or blasting, your project will create off-site vibrations that can put your organization and reputation at risk. GeoSonics/Vibra-Tech has been providing vibration and blast consulting services for over 70 years. We have the tools and experience to help you manage your construction risk. Our Re:mote Monitoring Technology, a fully automated monitoring system with web-based data access and smart phone apps, continuously collects and posts data to a customized website, keeping project personnel notified through email/text alarms. Re:mote monitoring capabilities bring the field to you whether you need vibration, noise, dust, geotechnical or environmental monitoring. We also offer pre-construction inspections, damage claim investigations, project criteria development and expert testimony. Visit http://www.geosonicsvibratech.com.
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Glenmede’s Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) offering helps museums, cultural institutions and other nonprofits pursue their financial objectives and mission-driven goals. As an OCIO, we operate with discretion and seek to build diversified, dynamic portfolios grounded in our best thinking and customized to each institution’s objectives. Ultimately, our objective is to help each museum and cultural institution that we serve grow and protect their assets for the long-term.
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Goppion manufactures and installs the highest quality conservation display cases and exhibit fabrication components in the most celebrated cultural institutions around the world. The company’s Boston office serves the North American market, while the Milan headquarters coordinates projects in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
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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, but each with a keen focus on supporting and maximizing the Museum’s mission.
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Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, Hartman-Cox Architects is a Washington, DC based architectural firm that has continuously produced award-winning, imaginative and responsible design for academic, institutional and private clients. Hartman-Cox is particularly noted for its sensitivity and response to site and context, as well as its stylistic flexibility. This approach has consistently created buildings that are carefully tailored to, and expressive of, their function. The overriding principle behind the design of all our projects has been to create a memorable building while reinforcing its surroundings.
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HealyKohler Design is a full-service design firm that combines multiple design disciplines to create successful visitor experiences through Museum Planning and Exhibition Design, Environmental Graphics, Interpretive Design and Exhibit Branding. We develop the client’s vision while never losing sight of the most valuable experience—that of the guest. We creatively share stories that bring content alive through engaging displays, thoughtful graphics, and dynamic multimedia tools.
Founded in 2008, our team includes exhibit designers, graphic designers, writers, and project managers. HealyKohler Design’s work includes public and private museums, visitor and interpretive centers, traveling exhibitions, corporate headquarters, and professional institutions.
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“Howes Studio’s team of museum, education, and media experts will plan, produce, assess & support your hybrid educational programs and E-learning environments.”
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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 global 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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IT’s a Grind provides information technology advisory services to nonprofits and commercial organizations. We provide fractional CIO/CTO support, Business and Technology Alignment, Technology Cost Analysis, and other Advisory services.
We can help you optimize user experiences, improve productivity, reduce costs, and ultimately achieve your strategic objectives. By fostering collaboration, setting common goals, and overcoming challenges through best practices, businesses can ensure that their IT efforts are closely aligned with their overall business objectives.
We are Passionate Problem Solvers and have supported dozens of Fortune 500, Federal Agencies, and State Governments with their biggest challenges. Let us help you see the forest through the trees. We know IT can be a Grind, but we can provide a disciplined approach and leadership to ensure success.
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iZone Imaging is North America’s leading manufacturer of sign solutions using panels made of Custom High Pressure Laminate (CHPL) . Our CHPL sign panels are printed, pressed and finished under one roof in a fully integrated facility located in Central Texas. iZone panels are the perfect material for creating outdoor signs, museum exhibits, interpretive and wayfinding signage, decorative wall panels, and more. We pride ourselves on creating products that leave a lasting impression.
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JacobsWyper Architects is an architectural, design and planning firm located in downtown Philadelphia, Austin, and Raleigh providing services to corporate, institutional, and non-profit clients.
We understand the unique challenges faced by museums and cultural institutions, who must find new and creative ways to engage their broader communities, creating spaces that bring together long-time patrons with those whose first visit may be tomorrow night. They must expand the impact of their educational mission with specialized classrooms, meeting spaces, and maker spaces that serve the needs of a wide range of learners. And of course, they must do all of this within funding, scheduling, and spatial constraints. This is exactly the kind of puzzle we love to solve. In fact, our team has been doing it for more than 45 years.
As with any creative endeavor, we approach museum and cultural work as a truly collaborative process between our team and that of our clients and stakeholders. Together, we build innovative and dynamic environments that support cultural institutions and museums to grow and serve their community both now and in the future.
JacobsWyper Architects is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
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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 three hundred cultural organizations across the US and Canada in varying phases 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 dedicated to providing exceptional mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology design, as well as comprehensive energy analysis, sustainable design, and commissioning services. From our offices in New York, New York, and Danbury, Connecticut, our team of over 70 professionals collaborates with prominent architectural firms on a wide array of regional and nationally recognized project assignments. Commissions include those for world renowned museums, fine and performing arts centers, prestigious universities, state-of-the-art educational facilities, luxury residences, and recreation establishments. Additionally, we have the privilege of designing specialty systems for landmark sites and historically significant buildings across the country.
We have a successful history of providing innovative, reliable, and energy-efficient engineering & design services, combined with unsurpassed client service. Our engineering solutions are guided by a commitment to both sustainability and building integrity. We view each challenge as an opportunity to blend advanced technology with timeless design, delivering context-sensitive solutions that respect the past while advancing toward the future. By examining each project from the client’s point of view and via effective communication, we assist our clients in making informed decisions for the good of their building project and our shared environment.
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Luci Creative is a woman-owned, full-service museum design firm empowering organizations to realize their goals through dynamic experiences and exhibits. We believe that powerful stories drive the human experience. Our need to create meets a restless curiosity—realized in a knack for telling stories in new ways. We ignite discovery, connection, and change through physical spaces of all scales, bringing together the best expert partners to realize the project and manage every step of the creative process for our clients along the way. Luci’s team of designers tailor a collaborative approach to every project, generating fresh experiences that are engaging, meaningful, and memorable. You have a story—we make it real.
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Mad Systems is an award-winning exhibit technology company. We specialize in audiovisual/interactive consultancy as well as AV system design and integration of exhibits for museums, visitor centers, traveling exhibitions and more. We are a majority woman-owned business that uses creative technology to develop long-lasting and easy-to-maintain systems. Mad implements the latest technology using non-proprietary equipment whenever possible.
Mad provides a full range of traditional audiovisual solutions from video displays to interactive computer systems. We also offer the AV++® line of solutions, all which reduce infrastructure and increase longevity. Part of AV++® is the QuickSilver® system. QuickSilver® is an affordable, flexible and comprehensive AV system comprising all that is needed for your AV solutions. This IT computer based system uses non-proprietary hardware and is designed to allow for personalized media delivery, and advanced ADA support. Whether we’re implementing traditional AV solutions or our own technologies, Mad exceeds clients’ expectations – without exceeding budgets.
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Marshall Craft Associates was founded in 1986 to provide architectural, planning, programming, interior design, and facilities technical support services to institutional clients in the Mid-Atlantic who own, occupy, and maintain their physical environments. Today, Marshall Craft has offices in Maryland and Virginia, and we design projects across the U.S. We approach our clients with a personalized level of exceptional services, and we have been honored to work with world-class cultural and civic organizations ranging from museums and community centers to national parks.
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Masterpiece is the premier fine art logistics company in America. Since 1989, our dedicated team has specialized in the coordination, packing, and transport of museum exhibitions, acquisitions, and exchanges. Our staff is experienced in the movement of all types of shipments, from the simple one crate move to chartering the largest air cargo freighters currently operating.
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EXPERTS IN MUSEUM SHOWCASES
Meyvaert has grown from a small mirror factory created in 1826 in Belgium into a global leader in innovative and custom display solutions to present, preserve & protect the most valuable artifacts, and also elevate the aesthetic appeal of exhibits worldwide. With our state-of-the-art facilities, our team of highly skilled engineers, experts project managers and rigorous installers, we have gained a reputation for excellence in design, engineering, fabrication and installation.
Capabilities
Our portfolio encompasses a variety of display solutions, ranging from full exhibit fabrication services and custom showcases to an extensive range of pre-engineered cases and components, as well as off-the-shelf available, thoroughly developed cases, including modular options.
Our continuous focus on R&D enables us to be at the forefront of technological innovation and integration of unique features, such as climate monitoring and security systems, to meet the evolving needs of the museum and exhibition industry.
In addition to our emphasis on superior quality and customization, our collaborative approach with our clients lies at the center of our project methodology. It starts with a consulting and design assist phase to ensure that the proposed solution aligns perfectly with the unique requirements of each individual project and continues throughout the entire project life.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to be solution-driven innovators, who go the extra mile and provide a flawless execution to ensure that stories told endure for generations to come.
Clients Portfolio
Our flexible and yet structured approach, and our commitment to quality and high performance have positioned us as a trusted partner for many museums, galleries, private collectors and institutions across the globe. (see attached list of completed and ongoing 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 unheard voices, and conveying honest history and science, combined with our knowledge of technology, results in novel experiences in every media form: immersive theaters, interactive environments, multiplayer games, AR/VR, and more.
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Morlights pushes the boundaries of design and storytelling using light as its medium. Founded in 1999 by industry veteran Avraham Mor, Chicago-headquartered Morlights employs a theatrical lens in its lighting designs to balance creativity with practicality. Each project is executed with leading-edge technology and a unique approach that combines imagination, inspiration and integrity.
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Page is a national design firm active in the design and rehabilitation of culturally significant buildings. Page is a full-service architecture, engineering and design firm committed to advancing the world through performance-based design.
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Boutique exhibition design firm fusing architecture + design to create immersive spatial experiences with distinct visuals.
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Pepper Construction is a family owned company that was established in 1927 and centers its values on safety, quality and diversity. Our mission is to continuously improve people’s quality of life through the built world.
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Founded as an architecture firm in 1965, PGAV has evolved to meet the needs of our clients and the visitors they serve. Today our services include interpretive planning, experience master planning, exhibit design, media production, architecture, and landscape architecture. Project experience includes science museums, history museums, cultural museums, visitor centers, zoos, aquariums, and themed entertainment. Each year over 150 million people visit the destinations we planned and designed, located in 35 states and five continents.
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Quatrefoil is a museum experience and exhibition design firm with offices on both the east and west coasts of the USA. We bring an expert team of artists, engineers, and storytellers to every phase of exhibition and project development, from master planning, accessibility, sound and graphic design to multimedia interactives and program development. Our work extends the museum visit beyond its walls to reach new audiences and activate informal learning in communities, cities, outdoor spaces and online.
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Risk Strategies was founded in Boston in 1997 as a different kind of broker. We always believed an insurance brokerage could be more — a trusted risk management advisor and partner where a focus on employee and client needs would create value and success.
Risk Strategies is a privately held U.S. brokerage firm and a part of the Accession Risk Management Group parent brand – a family of specialty insurance distribution and risk management companies.
We offer our clients comprehensive risk management advice, insurance and reinsurance placement in five core business segments:
-Property & Casualty
-Employee Benefits
-Private Client Services
-Consulting Services
-Financial & Wealth Solutions
With more than 30 specialty practices and 150 offices across North America, we are a top five player in many of our targeted industry and product line segments. Our growth has been fueled by both organic growth and a focus on M&A with more than 170 firms having joined the Accession family.
As the world becomes more dynamic and complex, so do our clients’ risks. Risk is not generic, nor are our clients’ needs. As an independent, specialty insurance broker, the foundation of our value proposition is a specialist approach. We provide the specialty insight, practical advice, and custom insurance to protect the things that matter most in life and business.
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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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WE TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THE SCIENCE. The Science History Institute explores lesser-known and overlooked stories from the history of science and technology. We dive deep into the history of scientific successes AND failures, with a focus on expanding knowledge and broadening our understanding of how science and society intersect.
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Established in 1992, Seneca Group is a distinguished real estate advisory and project management firm, recognized for our leadership and concierge-level client service in various sectors including cultural, civic, education and corporate. We deliver complex new buildings and interior buildouts in alignment with our clients’ goals and missions. From the earliest stages of planning through construction completion and move-in, we tailor our services to meet our clients’ specific needs.
We are a diverse team of 65 seasoned professionals, based primarily in Seattle and the D.C. area, with deep technical backgrounds in architecture, engineering, construction, historic renovation, development, finance, sustainability and facilities management. This dedicated team of now-project managers has an in-depth understanding of developing boutique projects including museums, large-scale sculptures, performing arts venues, public squares and parks, visitor centers, unique campuses, retail and destination hospitality. Their expertise brings exceptional value to every client, wherever they choose to build – nationally or internationally.
Our clients create and innovate with high-profile projects that have a tangible and measurable impact on the world. We lead these mission-driven projects with expertise and commitment to excellence.
Seneca Group – Transforming the Built Environment.
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SmithGroup is one of the world’s preeminent integrated design firms with a team 1,400 experts working across a network of 20 offices in the U.S.. Specializing in museums, galleries, science centers, sites of significance, and collections care, the multidisciplinary team of SmithGroup’s Cultural Practice brings dedicated experience to the challenges facing cultural institutions. Partnering with institutions of all scales across the country, our team of architects, museum planners, systems engineers, collections experts, lighting designers, and exhibit designers, deliver feasibility analysis, planning, and design, that is informed by the unique needs and aspirations of each institution.
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Solid Light was founded on the premise that people share a passion for great stories. For 25 years, our in-house design, fabrication, film, and digital experts have transformed audiences’ understanding and love for museums, branded environments, educational institutions, and public spaces by telling those stories in unforgettable, engaging ways.
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stabaArte has been designing, manufacturing and installing bespoke art storage systems for museums for over 50 years. Our experienced team of engineers develops custom-tailored solutions to provide the optimal storage solution for each individual collection. Our product line includes art racks, shelving, compact shelving, cabinets, and temporary exhibition walls.
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The mission of the Lepage Center is to advance our conviction that historical study can further public understanding of the present moment. The Center promotes the importance of historical knowledge and perspectives by organizing diverse events and programs that gather scholars, educators, journalists, policymakers, activists and students to reflect upon the present through the lens of the past. Committed to training the next generation of historians, the Lepage Center offers Villanova students a range of opportunities to gain first-hand experience with public history, communications and event programming.
Committed to training the next generation of historians, the Lepage Center offers Villanova students a range of opportunities to gain first-hand experience with public history, communications and event programming.
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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.
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The Lighting Practice has been a leader in lighting design since 1989. With design offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York, and Philadelphia, the firm partners with developers, building owners, and design professionals to develop innovative lighting solutions. TLP’s talented team of lighting design professionals creates dynamic and innovative lighting strategies for projects in museum, civic, corporate, healthcare, higher education, historic, hospitality, retail, mixed-use, and multi-family markets.
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The Projects Group (TPG) offers comprehensive owner’s representative / project management services for cultural projects where we can work on behalf of the owner, centering their best interests. As a certified 100% employee-owned firm, we provide impartial guidance tailored specifically to our clients’ objectives, from project development to completion. Our meticulous attention to detail, coupled with our capacity to predict and address challenges, ensures that projects transition seamlessly from ideas to lasting, sustainable landmarks within their communities. Through our productive partnerships, we also provide valuable master planning, cost estimating, and feasibility/market studies, providing the owner with critical information in the early stages of a project.
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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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Threshold designs places of gathering to learn, share wisdom, and pass along culture. We are a studio of Acoustic and Audio/Video design consultants who help our museum clients see what they want to hear.
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TYLin is a global, multidisciplinary engineering services firm recognized for solving some of the most significant infrastructure challenges of our time. Founded in 1954, the company employs 3,200+ professionals, in 65 offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and provides expansive services in the Buildings, Transportation, and Water/ Wastewater markets. Known for impeccable project delivery and continuously striving for excellence in technical innovation, TYLin collaborates closely with clients from all over the globe to understand their needs and create impactful results.
TYLin’s Buildings Sector began with the vision to support great architecture through the highest level of technical excellence – and to find joy along the way. With TYLin’s acquisition of Silman and Architectural Engineering Collaborative, two nationally recognized structural engineering firms, the Sector now comprises 200+ professionals including 70+ professionally licensed engineers and 20+ LEED accredited professionals. Buildings Sector office locations include New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Boston, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, and San Antonio.
New structures ranging from cultural and educational facilities to commercial and residential buildings account for about half of ongoing work. TYLin has also consulted on over 400 registered landmark structures, developing invaluable expertise in the restoration and preservation of historic buildings. Renovations and adaptive reuse projects are another major segment of active projects, drawing from TYLin’s knowledge of structures both old and new.
Recognizing that culture and the arts are vital to society, the firm prides itself on being involved with institutions that serve to educate, captivate, and inspire. TYLin’s clients include museums, performing arts centers, and libraries. The firm also has a long history of collaborating with artists and institutional clients on high-profile installations and sculptures across the country.
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Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates is a global firm of engineers, architects, and materials scientists committed to helping clients solve, repair, and avoid problems in the built world. We have worked with leading cultural institutions around the nation to help monitor and protect museum art collections from vibrations.
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Campuses, organizations, and communities are transformed through Ziger|Snead Architect’s mission that great design can have a positive social impact. Clients value the firm’s dedication to a distilled design approach, focus on relationships, and active community engagement. Its projects have been recognized with more than 100 local, state, national, and international awards for design excellence.
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Zubatkin Owner Representation, A Cumming Group Company, specializes in the strategic development and management of capital construction projects for not-for-profit institutions and private development clients.
Our diverse portfolio includes collaborations with the American Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Mathematics, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Guggenheim Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Planet Word, Studio Museum in Harlem, Clark Art Institute, and USGA.
As project managers, we partner with our clients across all stages of the project life cycle – from initial strategic planning and feasibility assessments through design, exhibit integration / management, approvals, procurement, construction, commissioning and closeout. Our in-house expertise includes program development, cost estimating, scheduling, and risk management.