Museum Pros LLC

In my head, exhibit design is a pristine process, dreamed up in a serene office setting with a hot cup of coffee and a motivational playlist going. More often it's a messy brain fart that appears in the most unlikely and uninspiring of spots. Today, we are designing the new Pinal County Historical Museum at 0600 on concourse C of the DFW airport. At least the coffee is a constant!

Here are a few highlights of our crazy M/P week in Arizona.

Sometimes crazy ideas come to fruition! This concept for a pivoting museum door/wall was framed up about 6 months ago on a restaurant napkin. Today, we tested the prototype and so far - wow! Even Peep approved!

Our first Texas Association of Museums conference. Having a blast!

Look at us! We're in McAllen TX at the TAM conference..... hangin' with the big dogs! (Zoom in.....farther......near the bottom right!)

Congrats to SRP and the Phoenix Symphony for a fantastic America 250 Concert celebration. We were so happy to help design and build the SRP pop-up display! And thanks for the extra muscle and engineering!

Scenes from York. So. Much. History.

Day 2 of our trip to PA was sloppy and wet, but we found another gorgeous, 1902 train station in Staunton VA. Oh, and I have to take back my comment about truck stop architecture! Sometimes it can be entertaining. Moonshine! Next stop - the Small Museums Conference in York.

Historians cannot live on truck stop architecture alone. Our roadtrip goal this year is to pause and soak up some history and art in towns we normally buzz right through. First pause on this trip was to check out Union Station in Texarkana. Gorgeous, aged, and much in need of restoration, this ode to the days of railroad boom towns was a welcome sight.

With quaint main streets, fun murals, and restaurants that looked inviting, it was a shame to jump back on the road. *sigh*

Museum Pros is on the road again, this time en route to Pennsylvania. The shotgun seat office is set up and Joe is busy inspecting the new wifi device.