Studio Tectonic has compiled a list of dozens of ways museums, zoos, and other institutions can react to our changing world. We think about broad-ranging topics like technology, staff, design,... read more →
Today I'm taking a break from serious session reporting. (Although, I'll circle back 'round to report out a session on museums of social conscience tomorrow.) The NAME (National Association for... read more →
Greetings from Minneapolis - home of this year's American Associations of Museum's conference. The AAM conference is always a bit of a whirlwind of connecting with old colleagues, seeing the... read more →
A session highlight from today's AAM was "In Memoriam: Interpreting Human Tragedy". Panelists were from institutions including Holocaust remembrance museums, 9/11 memorials, and academics involved with conveying the histories and... read more →
The upcoming Chief Niwot exhibition at the Boulder History Museum was previewed in the Sunday Boulder Daily Camera. Here’s the article (the newspaper incorrectly identified me as being directly part... read more →
The Chief Niwot ~ Legend and Legacy exhibition has won the History Colorado's Josephine H. Miles Award. The award is given for "making a major contribution to the advancement of... read more →
Seth Frankel, Studio Tectonic's principal, is a contributing author to a new professional book entitled Fostering Empathy Through Museums. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, the book release is scheduled for Spring, 2016,... read more →
Designing for Empathy has recently been submitted for publication (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). It is a follow up to Fostering Empathy through Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, edited by Elif Gokcigdem. Studio... read more →
Seth Frankel presented on the creation and opening of the Sierra Leone Peace Museum at the 8th INMP conference – this year in South Korea. The conference occurs every three years... read more →
Seth Frankel's paper Sierra Leone Peace Museum: A Remembrance of Violence, Peace and Rebuilding was recently published as a Best Conference Papers by the No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation... read more →