Projects

This multi-tiered interactive installation provides a variety of activities and behind-the-scenes expert insight to reveal how this unusual Los Angeles native was discovered, understood, and exhibited.

Mysteries surrounding animals and environments from the past are unraveled through these two activity-based interactives.

Seventeen interactive case explorers amplify the historic exhibit of native Alaskan artifacts at Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.

Interactive kiosks at The Autry National Center enhance their exhibit, Art of Native American Basketry, with an experience that draws connections across cultures via the unique craft of basket weaving.

The artwork within a 15th-century medieval masterpiece is revealed, enhanced, and interpreted in the enchanting interfaces of this Web site and installation.

Visitors read and study a facsimile of this key political document, in which Mexico ceded regions of the southwest to the U.S., while contemporary interviews play out competing interpretations of the treaty.

High-resolution interactive images of animal hide paintings give an unprecedented view of these 18th-century artifacts that depict early encounters in New Mexico’s history.

Historic photographs, an environmental sound installation, and an interactive guest book transports visitors into the past to learn about the spectacular history of the Marion Davies Guest House.

The organizational scheme for Thomas Jefferson’s library—the foundation of the Library of Congress—forms the interactive method for accessing every volume in the Jefferson collection and special tomes on display.

Two monumental Bibles mark the transition from pen to press: one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts and the most famous first printed book are paired for exploration in this insightful interactive experience.

The creative acts of our Founding Fathers are illuminated through enhanced electronic documents that reveal their thinking, their inspiration, and their iterative, collaborative process.

Abraham Lincoln’s famous words are interpreted for visitors, and can be examined in detail, on two large touch screens showcasing the Gettysburg Address.

Artifacts in a display case are liberated for discovery in this interactive station that illustrates the diverse writing systems for recording knowledge in the early Americas.

An exhibit interactive and Web site piece together a rare Japanese scroll for visitors to explore, transcribe, translate, and understand in its entirety.

Two expansive interactive tables engage groups in diverse activities that reveal the strategic and technological aspects of the Great War as well as its cultural and political legacies.

Recreated in three dimensions, this interactive whaling ship lets visitors examine every notable feature above and below decks to learn about life on board a vehicle that brought us America’s first oil industry.

Visitors can magnify, transcribe, and come to understand the significance of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights on three large touch screens.

An exhibition video reveals the science behind the authentication of a J. Paul Getty cabinet believed to have been a fake.

The process of dating the wood in a Renaissance cabinet is explored to demonstrate the authenticity of an artifact in this exhibition video.

The process of how Cizhou wares were made during China’s Song and Yuan dynasties is revealed as visitors create their own vessel using the Web site’s tools.

Visitors can transcribe a seventeenth-century Japanese scroll, then create their own poems which are painted into it and ready to print from this Web site.

Web site visitors explore the piece-mold process that was used to create a Chinese tsun from the Western Zhou period as they create their own vessels.

Through a comprehensive database of images and objects connected to an interactive map of the plantation and a navigable 3-D recreation of the home, this Web site brings the experience of being at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to life online.

A touch screen installed next to a display case lets visitors explore an inscribed Mayan artifact, and transcribe and study its hieroglyphics.

In these three installations visitors slide a touch screen across archival storage boxes to reveal materials and evidence preserved from famous investigations, such as those on UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, the Kent State shootings, and Watergate.

Through enhanced access to original documents, this interactive explores the records that document how agents of the bureau assisted freepersons from 1865 to 1872.

Through this media-rich experience, Web site and kiosk users explore a 3-D house to discover a Chinese region’s renowned architecture and the generations of a family that made it their home.

Touch screens mounted near display cases give visitors an enhanced understanding of adjacent artifacts on view.

An interactive interpretation of Jimi Hendrix’s personal notebook, this enhanced artifact allows visitors to explore and transcribe his writings, while listening to the evolution of his creative process.

An exhibition’s companion Web site features interactives that detail the artistic, biographical, and symbolic elements in a monumental portrait of our first president.