Smithsonian's African American Museum Picks Holocaust Museum's Exhibit Designer
The New York Times Blog
February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. - The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the new Smithsonian museum set to open in 2015, has chosen a designer for its exhibitions. The museum has hired Ralph Appelbaum Associates, whose past projects include the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, several major permanent exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. In a conversation earlier this week, the museum’s director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, said that Mr. Appelbaum had brought together a group of young, culturally diverse designers to work on the project. The Smithsonian will pay Mr. Appelbaum’s firm roughly $3 million to design of the museum’s planned 82,000 square feet of exhibition space. [link]
February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. - The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the new Smithsonian museum set to open in 2015, has chosen a designer for its exhibitions. The museum has hired Ralph Appelbaum Associates, whose past projects include the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, several major permanent exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. In a conversation earlier this week, the museum’s director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, said that Mr. Appelbaum had brought together a group of young, culturally diverse designers to work on the project. The Smithsonian will pay Mr. Appelbaum’s firm roughly $3 million to design of the museum’s planned 82,000 square feet of exhibition space. [link]