museumplanner.org had a wonderful 2011 – Thank you all !
Accomplishments in 2011:
- Museum Planner has become the world’s most followed resource for Museum Planning and Exhibition Design (Alexa ranking)
- 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
- Continue to define the best practices of museum planning and exhibition design
- “Museums are Hospitality” most followed post to date on AAM Linkedin
- Hub Museum concept better defined
- “Connecting with the Muses”
- Phases of museums, “Future of Interactivity”
- Continue to answer the “Fequently asked questions”
- Launch of museum-exhibits.com
- Launched Museum News Links, weekly museum news updates, link for weekly email
- Launched Museum Planner on Facebook
- Launched Museum Planner on Twitter
- Linkedin Group Sculpture Science & Museums
- Alcatraz: Life on the Rock opened at Ellis Island
- Trans Studio opened
- Solar Decathlon 2011 juror
- 2011 Best Exhibitions
Plans for 2012
- 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey
- Top Museums 2011 Report
- 2012 Best Exhibitions
- Weekly “Museum Trends”, oriented to museum planning, the future of museum exhibitions, interactive sculpture, trends in museums,
- One post per week on, museum planning, exhibition design and the future of museums
- Mark Walhimer Exhibition Design, LLC to become Museum Planner, LLC
- More content on kinetic sculpture
- More content on “Museum 4.0″
- museum-exhibits.com at ASTC
- museum-exhibits.com to become the internets most respected website for “off the shelf exhibits and interactive sculpture”
- Interactive sculpture installed at a museum
- First draft of a book on museum planning
- “Museum U“ - set up online museum class content
- Apply for Hub Museum as a NFS Grant
- Science Center project
- Set up on line resource for “Museum Satisfaction”
- Continued success of “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock”
- More great clients in 2012 !
Thank you for the great year! Looking forward to completing more research on the topic of Museum Planning & Exhibition Design at museumplanner.org and working with more great clients in 2012.
~Mark Walhimer
Museum Planner
