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MUSEUM CONSULTING & DESIGN SERVICES

The Palmer Group assists museums, non-profit museum foundations, and historical societies by providing experienced, professional assistance to help you design your museum, build exhibits and manage your collections more effectively. We are experienced museum consultants with diverse backgrounds in museum management, exhibit design, fundraising and collections management.

Palmer Group staff can provide quick and responsive assistance with your museum design and exhibit creation needs and can help with all areas of museum operations and management. Working with your museum’s leadership, our “one-stop” creative team of consultants, designers, videographers, fabricators, artisans and craftsmen can turn your vision into reality from conceptual design to finished dioramas…without breaking the bank. Our emphasis is on assisting the institution to articulate and achieve its own vision with the best possible results. We do not come with preconceived solutions and we recognize the uniqueness of each institution and community.

EXHIBIT DESIGN

The complexity of intentions for exhibitions makes exhibition design most interesting and rewarding, and yet one of the most challenging aspects of a museum. The interpretation of story line, the presentation of artifacts, the provision of access to these objects and their meaning, and response to multiple audience needs and abilities is a significant challenge.

One of the strengths of The Palmer Group is the ability to take the intellectual concept behind an exhibition and translate it into a meaningful spatial concept in which order, movement, and visual perceptions all reinforce the essential purposes of the exhibition. The sequence of intellectual concept › spatial concept › physical design is an important process principle.

Design of dioramas, cases and fixtures must be carefully done, blending creativity and interactivity with principles of preventive conservation and operational practicality. However, it is important that the design process be consistent with the larger conceptual framework. The form and context of exhibition spaces must enhance the artifacts and objects that from the basis of the exhibit. So must the hardware of the exhibition leave the primary impact to the objects and interpretive media. We specialize in creating distinctive and interactive diorama settings for large artifacts and unique story lines.