Excellence in Exhibition
As a subcontractor to Amaze Design, Wondercabinet's Neal Mayer designed the Sensing Chicago family gallery
at the Chicago History museum. This exhibit won an honorable mention in the Excellence in Exhibition
competition sponsored by the American Association of Museums. A photo of the exhibit's Chicago Hot Dog is featured
on the cover of the Fall 2007 issue of Exhibitionist, the journal of the National Association for Museum Exhibition.
Making the List
The Boston Globe featured the Bunker Hill Monument and Museum as one (OK, technically two) of the
10 Things Not To Miss in December.
NPS Faneuil Hall Visitor Center
Wondercabinet recently met with representatives of the Boston National Historical Park,
an urban park of the National Park Service, to kick-off the development of a new visitor
center, to be located in the historic Faneuil Hall. For this project, we're working with
architects Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, the same firm we've been working with on another BNHP
visitor center, at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
New England Museum Association Conference
At the NEMA conference in Portland, Maine, Wondercabinet exhibited in the exhibit hall,
displaying the lovely models Neal built of the Agmazing! exhibit at the Children's
Discovery Museum and the Battle exhibit at the Bunker Hill Museum. Sari chaired a
session entitled "Something Old is New Again." This session was about reinterpreting historic
collections while maintaining some or all of the historic elements and the
historic nature of the collection displays.
The Designers are Coming! The Designers are Coming!
Since we just can't get enough of the Freedom Trail sites, we're excited to be working with
Fennick McCredie Architecture on a project at the Paul Revere House.
As the exhibit consultants to the architectural Master Plan, we're adding our expertise
and guidance to the plans for expanding the site.
A Decisive Day
There was pomp and a whole lot of circumstance. At the
official opening
for the new Bunker Hill Museum, the National Park Service and
Wondercabinet teams were joined by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Revolutionary War re-enactors, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of
Massachusetts and the
Freemasons, brotherly descendents of the Sons of Liberty.
Watch a video of the opening ceremony from New England Cable News.
Front Page News
The Boston Globe featured a
front page article
about the new Bunker Hill Museum we designed.
That's Neal up on the ladder.
Tellus Science Museum
Wondercabinet is designing the hands-on science gallery My Big Backyard for the new
Tellus Science Museum in Georgia. A collaboration with the project fabricator MurphyCatton,
My Big Backyard brings science home, letting kids explore the science of our
everyday lives, with interactives on magnetism, electricity, light, sound, machines,
weather and life science.
