[ { "id": "1220-fabrication", "name": "1220 Exhibits", "aka": [ "1220" ], "website": "https://1220.com", "hq": { "city": "Nashville", "state": "TN" }, "founded": 1972, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active project/capabilities pages and job postings maintained on 1220.com as of this check; credited on the National WWII Museum's 2023 capstone Liberation Pavilion phase.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "1220 Exhibits is a Nashville, Tennessee-based exhibit fabrication company, operating since 1972, building museum exhibits, scenic environments, and large-scale installations for cultural, corporate, and collegiate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://1220.com/", "https://1220.com/about/", "https://1220.com/capabilities/fabrication/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/nmaam/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/wwii/" ] }, { "id": "2x4", "name": "2x4", "website": "https://2x4.org", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Beijing", "country": "CN" } ], "founded": 1994, "roles": [ "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Princeton University Art Museum's new building (2025); active current client roster and team pages on its own site.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "2x4 is a New York-based graphic design and brand strategy studio founded in 1994 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout, working on identity, environmental graphics, and wayfinding for cultural and commercial clients, with a satellite studio in Beijing.\n", "sources": [ "https://2x4.org/", "https://2x4.org/about/" ] }, { "id": "a-zahner-company", "name": "A. Zahner Company", "aka": [ "Zahner" ], "hq": { "city": "Kansas City", "state": "MO" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabricated 323 perforated stainless steel panels for the Pacific Plaza Park Pavilion in Dallas, TX (opened 2019); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "A. Zahner Company is a Kansas City-based metal fabrication company known for custom architectural facade and sculptural panel systems.\n", "sources": [ "http://www.azahner.com/projects/pacific-plaza-park-pavilion/" ] }, { "id": "adirondack-studios", "name": "Adirondack Studios", "aka": [ "Adirondack Scenic, Inc." ], "website": "https://www.adkstudios.com", "hq": { "city": "Argyle", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Pasadena", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "founded": 1975, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "126,000 sq ft Argyle, NY headquarters and production facility with ~150 local / ~300 global employees as of its 50th-anniversary coverage (March 2025); active company blog, careers page, and portfolio as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Adirondack Studios (formerly Adirondack Scenic, Inc.) is an Argyle, New York-based scenic design and fabrication studio, founded 1975, providing concept/schematic design, custom fabrication, and installation for theme parks, museums, and other themed and experiential environments.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.adkstudios.com/", "https://www.saratoga.com/saratogabusinessjournal/2025/03/adirondack-studios-celebrates-50-years-of-innovation-and-global-impact/" ] }, { "id": "akustiks", "name": "Akustiks, LLC", "aka": [], "founded": 2001, "hq": { "city": "Norwalk", "state": "CT" }, "roles": [ "acoustics" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Acoustics consultant on the San Diego Symphony's Jacobs Music Center renovation (opened 2024); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Akustiks, LLC is a Norwalk, Connecticut-based acoustics consulting firm founded in 2001.\n", "sources": [ "https://hga.com/hgas-redesign-of-san-diego-symphonys-jacobs-music-center-elevates-performance-experiences-for-artists-and-patrons/" ] }, { "id": "aldrichpears-associates", "name": "AldrichPears Associates", "aka": [ "Aldrich Pears Associates" ], "website": "https://aldrichpears.com", "hq": { "city": "Vancouver", "state": "BC" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1979, "roles": [ "interpretive-planning", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Firm website lists in-progress current-year work, including a Washington State History Museum Great Hall re-design and a Valley of Fire State Park visitor center exhibit project; project archive includes work dated 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "AldrichPears Associates is a Vancouver, British Columbia interpretive planning and exhibit design firm founded in 1979 by Ron Pears and Phil Aldrich. It works internationally for museums, science centers, interpretive centers, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and children's museums, including visitor center exhibits at Hoover Dam and Pearl Harbor and gallery renewal at the Manitoba Museum.\n", "sources": [ "https://aldrichpears.com/", "https://aldrichpears.com/projects/", "https://aldrichpears.com/project_year/2025/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AldrichPears_Associates" ] }, { "id": "amaze-design", "name": "Amaze Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.amazedesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Philipse Manor Hall exhibits opened November 2022 and received the 2024 American Association for State and Local History Award of Excellence (announced June 21, 2024); firm's portfolio site actively maintained as of 2026-07.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Amaze Design is a Boston-based exhibit design and interpretive planning studio working with national parks, historic sites, science centers, and history museums across the United States, developing interpretive exhibits and master plans for cultural and natural-history institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.amazedesign.com", "https://clutch.co/profile/amaze-design", "https://www.amazedesign.com/work/africanburialgroundnewyork-99bn2-6734w" ] }, { "id": "andrew-merriell", "name": "Andrew Merriell & Associates", "aka": [ "Andrew Merriell + Associates" ], "website": "https://merriell.com", "hq": { "city": "Santa Fe", "state": "NM" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Recent client engagements including the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque Balloon Museum (2024) and Idaho State Historical Society / Idaho State Parks (2025), per the firm's own client list.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Andrew Merriell & Associates is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based interpretive planning and exhibit design practice led by Andrew Merriell, who has worked on museum, visitor center, zoo, and public garden projects since 1973. Merriell now operates independently under the same practice name, providing interpretive master plans, concept studies, exhibition development, and exhibit design.\n", "sources": [ "https://merriell.com/about", "https://merriell.com/portfolio-overview" ] }, { "id": "anita-jorgensen-lighting-design", "name": "Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design", "aka": [ "AJLD" ], "website": "https://www.ajld.net", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lighting design credited on the Frick Collection's building-wide renovation and enhancement project, reopened April 2025 (frick.org); firm portfolio site actively listing projects as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design is a New York City architectural lighting design studio, founded and led by Anita Jorgensen, working on museum galleries, exhibitions, and institutional and commercial interiors nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.ajld.net/", "https://www.ajld.net/profile", "https://www.ajld.net/project_list.php?id=1" ] }, { "id": "architectural-associates-inc", "name": "Architectural Associates, Inc.", "aka": [ "AAI" ], "hq": { "city": "Belleville", "state": "IL" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Museum architect (as \"AAI,\" Chuck and Cal Morris) on the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center (Collinsville, IL, opened 1989); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Architectural Associates, Inc. (AAI) is an Illinois-based architecture firm.\n", "sources": [ "http://aaicinc.com/projects/cahokia-mounds-museum-interpretive-center/" ] }, { "id": "arrowstreet", "name": "Arrowstreet", "aka": [ "Myer and Ashley" ], "website": "https://www.arrowstreet.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1961, "roles": [ "architecture", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed One Milestone at Harvard University's Enterprise Research Campus (opened June 2026, as architect of record with Studio Gang and Henning Larsen); ranked #16 largest architecture firm in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal (2026) and #9 among Boston's largest architecture firms (2025); Banker & Tradesman Best of 2025 Gold awards for commercial architecture/design and commercial real estate interior design.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Arrowstreet is a Boston-based architecture, interior design, and environmental/experience graphic design firm founded in 1961 (incorporated under founders Jack Myer and Fletcher Ashley; took the Arrowstreet name in 1973). Alongside its broader architecture and planning practice, its in-house graphic design studio produces environmental graphics, wayfinding, interpretive panels, and exhibit-adjacent installations for museums, libraries, and other civic and cultural clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.arrowstreet.com/about/", "https://www.arrowstreet.com/2011/03/1213/", "https://www.archpaper.com/2026/07/one-milestone-by-studio-gang-henning-larsen-and-arrowstreet-opens-at-harvard-universitys-enterprise-research-campus/" ] }, { "id": "art-guild-inc", "name": "Art Guild, Inc.", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.artguildinc.com", "hq": { "city": "West Deptford", "state": "NJ" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as exhibit fabricator on the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music (opened June 2026), the Kimmel Center's \"Seat at the Table\" (2020), and multiple museum exhibit projects through 2016-2018; current company website actively promotes museum/environments work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Art Guild, Inc. is a West Deptford, New Jersey-based fabricator of trade show exhibits, museum exhibits and environments, retail displays, and events, operating large-scale production and warehousing facilities across multiple states.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.artguildinc.com/about/", "https://www.artguildinc.com/museums-environments/" ] }, { "id": "arup", "name": "Arup", "aka": [ "Arup Group", "Ove Arup & Partners" ], "website": "https://www.arup.com/en-us/", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "London", "country": "GB", "note": "Global headquarters" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1946, "roles": [ "technical-consulting", "acoustics", "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing reopening (2025); active North American practice across dozens of offices (first US office opened 1985 in San Francisco; New York is the leading multidisciplinary Americas office).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Arup is a global engineering and technical-consulting firm founded in London in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup, with a substantial North American presence (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other offices) dating to 1985. In the experiential-design space it is typically credited for acoustics, theatrical/AV technical consulting, and lighting engineering on museum and cultural-venue projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.arup.com/en-us/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arup_Group", "https://www.arup.com/en-us/contact-us/offices/" ] }, { "id": "ashton-design", "name": "Ashton Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://ashton-design.com", "hq": { "city": "Baltimore", "state": "MD" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1985, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Baltimore Museum of Industry \"Collective Action\" exhibit (2024) honored at the 2024 Preservation Celebration; Jewish Museum of Maryland reopening exhibits (2024); firm website news/work pages actively updated.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ashton Design is a Baltimore, Maryland studio founded in 1985 working across identity, environmental graphics, exhibitions, and branded environments for cultural institutions, campuses, and public spaces. Museum credits include exhibit and wayfinding work at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the FDNY Fire Zone, and the Merriweather District.\n", "sources": [ "https://ashton-design.com/", "https://ashton-design.com/work/baltimore-museum-of-industry", "https://www.thebmi.org/exhibits/building-a-baltimore-landmark/", "https://ashton-design.com/studio" ] }, { "id": "auerbach-pollock-friedlander", "name": "Apeiro Design", "aka": [ "Auerbach Pollock Friedlander", "Auerbach Glasow", "Auerbach + Associates" ], "website": "https://apeirodesign.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "founded": 1972, "roles": [ "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Auerbach Pollock Friedlander and sister firm Auerbach Glasow rebranded as Apeiro Design in July 2023, marking the practice's 50th anniversary; per the firm's own site (apeirodesign.com) it remains active with 30+ staff across four offices as of this check. Theatre-consulting credits in this index (SFJAZZ Center, Mondavi Center, Zankel Hall, Writers Theatre) predate the rebrand and were delivered under the Auerbach Pollock Friedlander name.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Apeiro Design — founded in 1972 in San Francisco as Auerbach + Associates and long operating as Auerbach Pollock Friedlander — is a theatre planning and audiovisual/technical consulting firm serving performing arts centers, concert halls, and cultural venues nationally, rebranded to its current name in 2023 after 50 years of practice.\n", "sources": [ "https://apeirodesign.com/about/", "https://www.auditoria-magazine.com/news/design/auerbach-pollock-friedlander-and-auerbach-glasow-rebrand-to-apeiro-design.html", "https://www.livedesignonline.com/sfjazz-opens-auerbach-pollock-friedlander-theatre-consultants", "https://bbinet.com/works/the-robert-and-margrit-mondavi-center-for-the-performing-arts/" ] }, { "id": "av-c", "name": "AV&C", "aka": [ "Audio Video & Controls" ], "website": "https://www.av-controls.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "media-design", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "\"An Atlas of Es Devlin\" with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum ran through Aug 2024; active project portfolio maintained on av-controls.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "AV&C is a New York experience-design studio founded by David Bianciardi in 1999, combining experience design, custom software, and systems integration to build interactive and architectural media installations for museums, cultural institutions, and brands.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.av-controls.com/about", "https://www.av-controls.com/synapse", "https://www.av-controls.com/janes-carousel-gallery" ] }, { "id": "available-light", "name": "Available Light", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.availablelight.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "founded": 1992, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active project portfolio maintained on availablelight.com as of this check; credited on the National Medal of Honor Museum firm status_basis project window and multiple 2018-2022 museum openings.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Available Light is a Boston-based lighting design firm, operating since 1992, specializing in exhibition and architectural lighting for museums, themed environments, and immersive spaces.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.availablelight.com/", "https://www.availablelight.com/specialties/museum-exhibition", "https://www.availablelight.com/team/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/sazerac/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/spy/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/max/" ] }, { "id": "avi-spl", "name": "AVI-SPL", "website": "https://www.avispl.com", "hq": { "city": "Tampa", "state": "FL" }, "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Its XTG (Experience Technology Group) division delivered the AV system for SeaWorld San Diego's \"Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Experience,\" which opened March 15, 2025 and is documented on AVI-SPL's own site.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "AVI-SPL is a Tampa, Florida-based audiovisual systems integrator formed in 2008 from the merger of Audio Visual Innovations (founded 1979) and Signal Perfection Ltd. Its Experience Technology Group (XTG) division delivers AV integration and media-design work for museums, attractions, and brand experiences alongside the firm's larger enterprise AV/UC business.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.avispl.com/about-us/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI-SPL", "https://avispl.com/xtg/our-work/seaworld/" ] }, { "id": "ayers-saint-gross", "name": "Ayers Saint Gross", "aka": [ "Sill, Buckler & Fenhagen" ], "website": "https://ayerssaintgross.com", "hq": { "city": "Baltimore", "state": "MD" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Tempe", "state": "AZ" } ], "founded": 1912, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "National Aquarium Harbor Wetland completed and opened (Aug 2024); Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at Missouri Botanical Garden won Best of Show + Honor Award at the 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards and won Interior Design magazine's Best of the Best Award (Dec 2025).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ayers Saint Gross is a 100%-employee-owned architecture, planning, and design firm based in Baltimore, with a cultural-institutions and higher- education practice spanning visitor centers, museum master plans, and campus buildings across three US offices.\n", "sources": [ "https://ayerssaintgross.com/practice/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayers_Saint_Gross", "https://ayerssaintgross.com/work/project/national-aquarium-harbor-wetland/", "https://ayerssaintgross.com/practice/news/2025/12/jack-c-taylor-visitor-center-wins-interior-design-magazines-best-of-the-best-award/" ] }, { "id": "batwin-and-robin", "name": "batwin + robin productions", "aka": [ "Batwin & Robin Productions" ], "website": "https://www.batwinandrobin.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1991, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Opened \"In This Place\" gallery at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (May 2025) and the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery at the Library of Congress (June 2024); produced media for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers 2024 event, per the firm's own site.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "batwin + robin productions is a New York City-based multimedia design studio founded in 1991 by Linda Batwin and Robin Silvestri, producing media design, projection design, and interactive media for museums and cultural institutions, visitor attractions, theater, brand experiences, and live events.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.batwinandrobin.com/about/", "https://www.batwinandrobin.com/projects/" ] }, { "id": "bbi-engineering", "name": "BBI Engineering", "aka": [], "website": "https://bbinet.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active portfolio and services site as of this check; most recent named project is the Autodesk Gallery 2.0 renovation (2021), and the firm lists an ongoing decade-long relationship with Autodesk and other repeat museum clients (Yellowstone National Park, 2009-2019).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "BBI Engineering is a San Francisco-based design-build audiovisual integrator founded in 1984 by Phil Bailey and Mark Roos, specializing in AV systems, custom interactive hardware, and control-system engineering for museums, visitor centers, and corporate/institutional clients across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://bbinet.com", "https://bbinet.com/our-story/", "https://bbinet.com/services/", "https://bbinet.com/museums/" ] }, { "id": "beaudry-interactive", "name": "Beaudry Interactive", "aka": [ "b/i", "Beaudry Interactive, LLC" ], "website": "https://www.binteractive.com", "hq": { "city": "North Hollywood", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2006, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Atomic Odyssey gallery interactives at the Atomic Museum, Las Vegas (opened January 2025); Dino Quest reimagining at Discovery Cube Orange County (opened May 2024); trade-press coverage through 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Beaudry Interactive is a Los Angeles-area experiential technology studio founded in 2006, specializing in interaction design, custom electronics, software and hardware development, and real-time show control for museums, science centers, and themed entertainment. It typically serves as the interactive-technology specialist within larger exhibit teams.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.binteractive.com/about", "https://blooloop.com/directory/beaudry-interactive/", "https://blooloop.com/technology/news/beaudry-interactive-atomic-museum/" ] }, { "id": "belle-and-wissell", "name": "Belle & Wissell, Co.", "aka": [], "website": "https://bwco.info", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2003, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "media-design", "content-production", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Amazon Visitor Landing interactive experience opened at Amazon HQ2's Metropolitan Park (Arlington, VA, 2023); NMAAHC Digital Donor Experience collaboration with Stimulant and Electrosonic; active project portfolio maintained on bwco.info as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Belle & Wissell, Co. is a Seattle-based experience and exhibition design studio founded by Gabe Kean in 2003, combining exhibit design, interactive media and software, environmental graphic design, and film/content production for museums, cultural institutions, and brand environments.\n", "sources": [ "https://bwco.info/about-the-studio/", "https://bwco.info/work/amazon-visitor-landing/", "https://bwco.info/work/nmaahc-donor-experience/" ] }, { "id": "beyer-blinder-belle", "name": "Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners", "aka": [ "BBB" ], "website": "https://www.beyerblinderbelle.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" } ], "founded": 1968, "roles": [ "architecture", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Executive architect for the Frick Collection renovation and enhancement, reopened April 2025; completed the South Street Seaport Museum masterplan (2025); named 2026 ENR MidAtlantic Design Firm of the Year; in-progress Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity (Orlando).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Beyer Blinder Belle is a New York City architecture and planning firm founded in 1968 by John H. Beyer, Richard Blinder, and John Belle, with a specialty in historic preservation and civic/cultural work. Museum and cultural credits include the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building visitor center and Polonsky Exhibition, Cooper Hewitt's reopening, the Frick Collection renovation, and Planet Word.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.beyerblinderbelle.com/", "https://www.beyerblinderbelle.com/profile/history", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyer_Blinder_Belle", "https://www.archpaper.com/2025/03/beyer-blinder-belle-south-street-seaport-marvel/", "https://www.enr.com/blogs/48-east-construction-views/post/62798-enr-midatlantic-names-beyer-blinder-belle-as-2026-design-firm-of-the-year" ] }, { "id": "blue-telescope", "name": "Blue Telescope", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered \"Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex\" at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (opened June 2022) and AR/VR interactives for the Sloan Museum of Discovery's History Gallery (2022); active current portfolio at bluetelescope.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Blue Telescope is a New York-based interactive exhibit and media design studio (20+ years) working across museums, themed attractions, and corporate briefing centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.bluetelescope.com", "https://blooloop.com/museum/news/blue-telescope-kennedy-space-center/" ] }, { "id": "bluebird-graphic-solutions", "name": "Bluebird Graphic Solutions", "aka": [ "Clayton LLC" ], "website": "https://www.bluebirdgs.com", "hq": { "city": "Woburn", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2011, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Firm blog and project pages actively updated through 2021+ with named cultural-sector work (Legacy Museum, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute); credited on museum exhibit fabrication projects dated as recently as 2023-2024 in this index; company profile listings (Yelp, BBB-adjacent directories) show Woburn, MA location current as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Bluebird Graphic Solutions is a Woburn, Massachusetts architectural signage, exhibit fabrication, and environmental graphics studio, operating as a division of Clayton LLC since 2011. It specializes in large-format printing, specialty fabrication, and installation for museums and cultural institutions, with credits including the Legacy Museum and multiple New England museum exhibit fit-outs.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.bluebirdgs.com/", "https://www.bluebirdgs.com/nest/the-legacy-museum-a-historic-project-hits-home-h7wxk", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210618005083/en/Bluebird-Graphic-Solutions-Celebrates-10-Year-Anniversary", "https://www.yelp.com/biz/bluebird-graphic-solutions-woburn" ] }, { "id": "bluecadet", "name": "Bluecadet", "aka": [ "Bluecadet Interactive" ], "website": "https://www.bluecadet.com", "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2007, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered The Met's 81st Street Studio (opened September 2023); winner, Core77 Design Awards 2024 (Interaction category, Met 81st Street Studio); active project portfolio maintained on bluecadet.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Bluecadet is a Philadelphia-based experience design studio founded by Josh Goldblum, producing interactive media, exhibit technology, and digital experiences for museums, cultural institutions, and universities.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.bluecadet.com/about", "https://technical.ly/company/bluecadet/", "https://www.commarts.com/features/bluecadet" ] }, { "id": "bnim", "name": "BNIM", "aka": [ "Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell", "Patty Berkebile Nelson Love Architects" ], "website": "https://www.bnim.com/", "hq": { "city": "Kansas City", "state": "MO" }, "founded": 1970, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architect of record on Vesterheim Commons with Snøhetta, opened September 2023, and on the Scott Visitor Center and Sustainability Treehouse at the Boy Scouts of America's Summit Bechtel Reserve; became a 100%-employee-owned company in November 2023.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "BNIM is a Kansas City, Missouri-based architecture and design firm founded in 1970, known for sustainability-focused institutional and cultural work including the Sustainability Treehouse and Scott Visitor Center at the Boy Scouts of America's Summit Bechtel Reserve.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.bnim.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNIM", "https://www.archpaper.com/2023/11/bnim-architects-employee-owned-company/", "https://www.snohetta.com/projects/vesterheim-commons" ] }, { "id": "boston-productions-inc", "name": "Boston Productions Inc.", "aka": [ "BPI Exhibit Media" ], "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on multiple Hilferty & Associates-collaboration projects (National Historic Trails Interpretive Center 2002, American Museum of Science and Energy 2018, The REACH Museum 2014); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Boston Productions Inc. (BPI Exhibit Media) is a Boston-based media design and AV production company for museums and interpretive centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://bostonproductions.com/" ] }, { "id": "bowen-technovation", "name": "Bowen Technovation", "aka": [ "Bowen Productions" ], "website": "https://www.bowentechnovation.com", "hq": { "city": "Indianapolis", "state": "IN" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1985, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Under contract for the McCauley Planetarium at the Grand Universe Science & Space Experience Campus (Hamilton County, project groundbreaking April 2024, opening targeted late 2025); firm website systems/design pages actively maintained.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Bowen Technovation is an Indianapolis, Indiana firm founded in 1985 specializing in audiovisual and immersive-technology systems for planetariums, immersive theaters, and museum exhibits, with installations in over 300 planetariums and 600 sites worldwide. Museum credits include the Great Lakes Science Center NASA Glenn Visitor Center, Indiana State Museum's Ancient Seas, and the Missouri History Museum's Collected.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.bowentechnovation.com/", "https://www.bowentechnovation.com/about/", "https://granduniverse.org/news/grand-universe-planning-liftoff-in-hamilton-county", "https://www.ibj.com/articles/20093-bowen-technovation-brings-educational-centers-to-life?v=preview" ] }, { "id": "brc-imagination-arts", "name": "BRC Imagination Arts", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.brcweb.com", "hq": { "city": "Burbank", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1981, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Las Vegas Raiders' Allegiant Stadium Tour (2021), TOURS @ Climate Pledge Arena tour program (public tickets launched January 2023), and continued press coverage through 2025 (31st Annual Thea Award for The Legend of Luna at Great Wolf Lodge Perryville, teaconnect.org); leadership-team expansion announced 2022 (businesswire.com).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "BRC Imagination Arts is a Burbank, California-based experience design and production studio founded in 1981, known for immersive brand experiences, corporate visitor centers, and museum exhibits, including the World of Coca-Cola, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Launch Experience.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.brcweb.com/about/", "https://www.brcweb.com/contact/", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210826005598/en/BRC-Imagination-Arts-Celebrates-40-Years", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221114005338/en/Global-Experiential-Agency-BRC-Imagination-Arts-Announces-Expansion-of-Leadership-Team" ] }, { "id": "building-four-fabrication", "name": "Building Four Fabrication", "website": "https://www.buildingfour.com", "hq": { "city": "Chamblee", "state": "GA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Austin", "state": "TX" } ], "founded": 2014, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "No public evidence of activity found within the last 3 years; most recent public activity found is an Instagram post dated May 31, 2021, and a credited project (Maymont Robins Nature Center Digital Experiences, 2020). No confirmation the firm has closed.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Building Four Fabrication is a Chamblee, Georgia-based exhibit and custom art fabrication firm founded in 2014, producing museum exhibit fabrication, signage, graphics, and custom interior/exterior installations.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/28073", "https://www.instagram.com/buildingfour/", "https://www.museumsusa.org/vendors/info/23817" ] }, { "id": "c-and-g-partners", "name": "C&G Partners", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.cgpartnersllc.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center completed 2024, with multiple award recognitions reported 2025; firm marked its 20th anniversary in June 2025; website lists staff additions dated 2026 and active job openings.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "C&G Partners is a New York City-based multi-specialty design studio founded in 2005, working across exhibition and environmental design, interpretive planning, wayfinding and environmental graphics, and digital/media experiences for cultural, educational, and corporate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/about/the-firm/", "https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/about/", "https://segd.org/firms/cg-partners/", "https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/cornell-lab-ornithology-receives-multiple-awards-its-visitor-center" ] }, { "id": "cambridgeseven", "name": "CambridgeSeven", "aka": [ "Cambridge Seven Associates" ], "website": "https://www.cambridgeseven.com", "hq": { "city": "Cambridge", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1962, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Continuously active since 1962; recent and in-progress work includes the Virginia Aquarium South Building and Vet Center reopening (2024), the Mote Science Education Aquarium (opened October 2025), and the Seneca Park Zoo Entry and Tropics Pavilion (announced 2025, under construction, expected completion 2028); firm website lists current job openings.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "CambridgeSeven (formerly Cambridge Seven Associates) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts architecture, master planning, and exhibit design firm founded in 1962 by seven architects, designers, and artists including Peter Chermayeff. It is best known for pioneering integrated architecture-and-exhibit design at public aquariums, beginning with the New England Aquarium (1969) and the National Aquarium in Baltimore (1981), and has since completed museum, aquarium, science center, sports hall of fame, and cultural-institution projects across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.cambridgeseven.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CambridgeSeven", "https://www.cambridgeseven.com/projects/" ] }, { "id": "capitol-museum-services", "name": "Capitol Museum Services", "aka": [ "CMS", "Capitol Exhibit Services (parent company)" ], "website": "https://capitolmuseumservices.com", "hq": { "city": "Manassas", "state": "VA" }, "founded": 1988, "roles": [ "fabrication", "av-integration", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active portfolio maintained on capitolmuseumservices.com listing projects through 2024 (Valentine museum \"Sculpting History,\" January 2024); credited on the Museum of Utah and Collection Facility, which opened June 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Capitol Museum Services is a Manassas, Virginia-based exhibit fabricator, operating since 1988 (as a division of Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc. since 2013), providing detailing, fabrication, graphics production, delivery, installation, and AV integration for museum, visitor-center, and corporate exhibits, primarily for Smithsonian Institution museums, the National Park Service, and other US cultural and government institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://capitolmuseumservices.com/", "https://capitolmuseumservices.com/approach/museums/", "https://capitolexhibit.com/about-us/history/", "https://capitolmuseumservices.com/portfolio/museums/" ] }, { "id": "chicago-scenic-studios", "name": "Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc.", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.chicagoscenic.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "founded": 1983, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Portfolio page (chicagoscenic.com/projects) lists work through recent years including the 2022 Willis Tower Skydeck renovation and a current team page; already credited fabricator on 6+ projects recorded in this index (American Writers Museum, de Young Museum, Great Lakes Science Center/NASA Glenn Visitor Center, Mascot Hall of Fame, Willis Tower Skydeck).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Chicago Scenic Studios is a Chicago-based scenic fabrication company operating a 165,000-square-foot production facility, providing exhibit and themed-environment fabrication, installation, and project management for museums, science centers, aquariums, corporate, and entertainment clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.chicagoscenic.com/about", "https://www.chicagoscenic.com/projects" ] }, { "id": "christopher-chadbourne-and-associates", "name": "Christopher Chadbourne & Associates", "aka": [ "CCA" ], "website": "https://cargocollective.com/ccadesign", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Founder/principal Christopher Douglas Chadbourne died February 13, 2020 (obituary: legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/christopher-chadbourne-obituary?id=31938863; corroborated by michaeljfox.org/bio/christopher-chadbourne, which also states he \"gradually left his firm\" after a 2008 Parkinson's diagnosis). No public evidence of firm activity after the National Museum of the United States Army opening (Nov 2020, reflecting pre-death design work) — 6 years with no confirmable new projects, press, hiring, or portfolio updates, exceeding the 5+-year-dormant threshold independent of the founder's death. No successor entity found.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Christopher Chadbourne & Associates (CCA) is a Boston-based exhibit design firm working with museums, aquariums, zoos, visitor centers, and heritage attractions, known for combining artifacts, interactivity, and immersive environments in historical exhibitions.\n", "sources": [ "https://cargocollective.com/ccadesign/Who-We-Are", "https://museum-id.com/christopher-chadbourne-associates/" ] }, { "id": "cinnabar", "name": "Cinnabar", "aka": [], "website": "https://cinnabar.com", "hq": { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1982, "roles": [ "fabrication", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Founder/CEO Basil Katz announced the company is closing after nearly 43 years of operation, \"completing a remarkable roster of projects\" before final closure (blooloop, January 28, 2025).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Cinnabar was a Los Angeles-based exhibit fabrication and design-build firm founded in 1982, producing museum exhibits, theme-park attractions, film and television set work, themed retail environments, and public art installations; the company announced its closure in January 2025.\n", "sources": [ "https://blooloop.com/museum/in-depth/cinnabar/" ] }, { "id": "click-netherfield", "name": "Click Netherfield", "aka": [ "Click Netherfield Ltd", "CNI" ], "website": "https://www.clicknetherfield.com", "hq": { "city": "Voorhees", "state": "NJ", "note": "US operating office (Click Netherfield Inc / \"CNI\"); global HQ is Livingston, Scotland (see other_offices).\n" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Livingston", "country": "GB", "note": "Global headquarters" }, { "city": "Markham", "state": "ON", "country": "CA", "note": "North American distributor office" } ], "founded": 1980, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Princeton University Art Museum reopening (2025) and the Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at AMNH (2021); active company website and dedicated US (Voorhees, NJ) and Canadian (Markham, ON) offices as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Click Netherfield is a museum display-case manufacturer headquartered in Livingston, Scotland, with a dedicated North American operating office in Voorhees, New Jersey and a Canadian distributor office near Toronto. It is a repeat display-case fabricator for major North American museums, including the American Museum of Natural History and Princeton University Art Museum.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.clicknetherfield.com/about-us/", "https://www.clicknetherfield.com/contact-us/", "https://www.royalwarrant.org/company/click-netherfield-limited" ] }, { "id": "clr-design", "name": "CLR Design", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Dana Point", "state": "CA" } ], "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit design on the Oregon Zoo's Primate Forest (Portland, OR, opened 2021) and Woodland Park Zoo's Forest Trailhead (Seattle, WA, opened 2026); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "CLR Design is a zoo and aquarium habitat design firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://clrdesign.com/project/primate-forest/", "https://clrdesign.com/who-we-are" ] }, { "id": "color-ad", "name": "Color-Ad, Inc.", "aka": [ "Color-Ad" ], "website": "https://color-ad.com", "hq": { "city": "Manassas", "state": "VA" }, "founded": 1962, "roles": [ "fabrication", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed \"Annapolis: An American Story\" at the Museum of Historic Annapolis (2022); active firm website with a current portfolio and news posts (2020 award announcement) as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Color-Ad, Inc. is a Manassas, Virginia-based signage and exhibit fabrication company founded in 1962 by David Velke, now family-run across three generations. It fabricates exhibits and graphics for visitor centers, aquariums, and history museums across the US.\n", "sources": [ "https://color-ad.com/", "https://color-ad.com/index.php/about-us-2/", "https://color-ad.com/index.php/2020/11/19/color-ad-projects-place-1st-2nd-and-3rd/" ] }, { "id": "cooper-robertson", "name": "Cooper Robertson", "aka": [ "Cooper, Robertson & Partners" ], "website": "https://www.cooperrobertson.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1979, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Executive architect on the Princeton University Art Museum (opened October 31, 2025) and design collaborator on the Studio Museum in Harlem (opened November 15, 2025); acquired by Corgan on November 3, 2025, but continues operating under the Cooper Robertson name and out of its New York office (cooperrobertson.com now redirects to a branded Corgan landing page, \"Trusted Design, Expanded Reach\"), with new work announced under its name into 2026 (Charlotte's New River District master plan).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Cooper Robertson is a New York architecture and urban design firm founded in 1979 by Alex Cooper and Jaquelin Robertson, known for cultural, educational, and master-planning work; acquired by Corgan in November 2025 but continuing to operate under its own name from its New York office as a Corgan studio.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.cooperrobertson.com", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Robertson", "https://www.corgan.com/news-insights/2025/corgan-cooperrobertson-acquisition", "https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10/09/town-square-arts-and-humanities-new-princeton-university-art-museum-shares-opening" ] }, { "id": "cortina-productions", "name": "Cortina Productions", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.cortinaproductions.com", "hq": { "city": "McLean", "state": "VA" }, "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active project portfolio maintained on cortinaproductions.com as of this check; credited on 2018-2025 museum openings including Mount Vernon's Be Washington (2018) and The National WWII Museum's Road to Victory master plan (through 2023).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Cortina Productions is a McLean, Virginia-based interactive media design and production company, founded in 1999, creating touchscreen kiosks, multiuser tables, and immersive theater media for museums and visitor centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.cortinaproductions.com/", "https://www.cortinaproductions.com/about/", "https://www.cortinaproductions.com/projects/washington-turn-lead/", "https://segd.org/firms/cortina-productions/" ] }, { "id": "crafted-action", "name": "Crafted Action", "website": "https://www.craftedaction.com", "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "founded": 2014, "roles": [ "master-planning", "interpretive-planning", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed Great Futures Gallery for Boys & Girls Clubs of America (2024), Franklin's Spark at the Franklin Institute (debuted January 2026), and the Highmark Mann Center golden-anniversary transformation (opened June 2026).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Crafted Action is a Philadelphia-based innovation consultancy specializing in Experiential Master Planning (EMP), a trademarked process integrating spatial, technology, and operational strategy for museums, performing-arts venues, and nonprofit and corporate clients. Founded in 2014 by architect Brad Krauskopf, the firm leads clients through experience strategy, interpretive planning, and exhibit and media design, typically coordinating fabrication and AV integration partners rather than executing those disciplines in-house.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.craftedaction.com/", "https://www.craftedaction.com/approach", "https://www.craftedaction.com/team", "https://www.craftedaction.com/work" ] }, { "id": "creative-technology", "name": "Creative Technology", "aka": [ "CT", "Creative Technology Group", "CT Group" ], "website": "https://ct-group.com/us/", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Crawley", "country": "GB", "note": "Global headquarters" } ], "founded": 1986, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Ongoing AV equipment and integration news through 2026 (e.g. Analog Way Aquilon RS6 deployments for GitHub Universe 2025 and Amazon AEPS 2025, reported April 2026) and a continuously updated news page at ct-group.com/us/; the credited Chicago-area museum work (Chicago Architecture Center 2018, Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Visitor Center 2021, Museum of Science and Industry Pioneer Zephyr media wall 2021) was installed by its Chicago branch under project lead Michael Fuller.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Creative Technology (CT), founded in 1986 in Crawley, England and now part of NEP Group, is a global audiovisual production and systems integration company operating from 30+ offices worldwide, including a Chicago office that performs AV integration and installation work for Chicago-area and Midwest museum and cultural-venue exhibits. Distinct from the unrelated Singapore-founded electronics company also named Creative Technology (maker of Sound Blaster audio hardware).\n", "sources": [ "https://ct-group.com/us/", "https://ct-group.com/us/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Technology", "https://www.ravepubs.com/av-stumpfl-and-creative-technology-group-assist-chicago-museum-exhibition-installation/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fuller-4794a29/", "https://www.choosechicago.com/listing/creative-technology-chicago/", "https://www.livedesignonline.com/news/creative-technology-group-ct-adds-analog-way-aquilon-rs6-live-event-production" ] }, { "id": "creo-industrial-arts", "name": "CREO Industrial Arts", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.creoindustrialarts.com", "hq": { "city": "Woodinville", "state": "WA" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited fabricator on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum (opened 2020) and on wayfinding/signage projects for 2 Plus U Seattle, The Eight, and University of Hawaii at Manoa; active project portfolio maintained on creoindustrialarts.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "CREO Industrial Arts is a Woodinville, Washington-based custom fabrication firm producing high-end architectural, wayfinding, and exhibit elements for workplace, retail, museum, hospitality, healthcare, and education clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.creoindustrialarts.com/", "https://www.creoindustrialarts.com/about/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/usopm/" ] }, { "id": "curious-beast", "name": "Curious Beast", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit design on Living Computers: Museum + Labs (Seattle, WA, renovation completed 2016-2017), per SEGD's own independent project page.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Curious Beast is an exhibit design studio.\n", "sources": [ "https://segd.org/projects/living-computers-museum-labs/", "https://www.curiousbeast.org/" ] }, { "id": "dangermond-keane-architecture", "name": "Bearing Architecture", "aka": [ "Dangermond Keane Architecture" ], "website": "https://bearingarchitecture.com", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Manzanita City Hall opened Aug 2, 2025; Lincoln City Visitor Center under construction 2025; Caring Place Resource Center groundbreaking Sept 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Bearing Architecture (formerly Dangermond Keane Architecture) is a Portland, Oregon architecture practice led by principals Steve Dangermond and Christopher Keane, working on civic, educational, cultural/museum, and institutional projects. The firm rebranded from Dangermond Keane Architecture to Bearing Architecture at the same address and phone number, with continuous portfolio and staffing.\n", "sources": [ "https://bearingarchitecture.com/about/", "https://bearingarchitecture.com/contact/", "https://www.northcoastcitizen.com/news/manzanita-council-updated-on-city-hall-work/article_da9e41bd-adb3-59ef-be29-6888782eace8.html" ] }, { "id": "davis-brody-bond", "name": "Davis Brody Bond", "aka": [ "Davis, Brody & Associates", "Davis Brody Bond, a Page Company" ], "website": "https://www.davisbrodybond.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "founded": 1952, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Acquired by multidisciplinary firm Page (announced November 2023); firm name, staff, and partners retained and continue to practice as \"Davis Brody Bond, a Page Company\"; firm website and press gallery actively maintained; recent credits include the AMNH Richard Gilder Center (opened 2023) and the Frick Collection Portico Gallery.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Davis Brody Bond is a New York City architecture firm founded in 1952 by Lewis Davis and Samuel Brody as Davis, Brody & Associates, taking its current name after a 1990/1996 merger with J. Max Bond Jr.'s Bond Ryder Associates. It became a Page company in 2023. Notable museum work includes the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History's Richard Gilder Center.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.davisbrodybond.com/overview", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Brody_Bond", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16569-davis-brody-bond-acquired-by-multidisciplinary-firm-page", "https://www.pagethink.com/insights/news/page-and-davis-brody-bond-join-forces-expanding-new-york-city-presence" ] }, { "id": "design-and-production-incorporated", "name": "Design and Production Incorporated", "aka": [ "D&P" ], "website": "https://d-and-p.com", "hq": { "city": "Lorton", "state": "VA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1949, "roles": [ "fabrication", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabricator of \"The People's House: A White House Experience\" (Washington, DC), opened September 2024, first place in the Museums & Heritage category at the 2025 Inavation Awards; company blog active as of November 2025; acquired by the French Chargeurs group in 2025 and now operates as the American subsidiary of Chargeurs Museum Studio, continuing to produce work under the D&P name.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Design and Production Incorporated (D&P) is a Lorton, Virginia-based museum exhibit fabricator founded in 1949, providing exhibit fabrication and installation, pre-fabrication consulting, and media/lighting systems integration for museums, presidential libraries, and visitor centers across the United States. D&P typically fabricates and installs exhibits designed by separate exhibit-design firms rather than designing exhibits itself. In 2025 D&P was acquired by the French Chargeurs group and now operates as the American subsidiary of its Chargeurs Museum Studio platform.\n", "sources": [ "https://d-and-p.com", "https://d-and-p.com/about-1", "https://d-and-p.com/blog", "https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-releases/the-peoples-house-a-white-house-experience-and-d-p-earn-first-place-at-2025-inavation-awards", "https://www.museumstudio.com/projects/the-peoples-house-a-white-house-experience", "https://chargeurs.com/en/successful-conclusion-of-the-acquisition-of-the-american-dp-incorporated/" ] }, { "id": "design-communications-ltd", "name": "Design Communications Ltd.", "aka": [ "DCL" ], "website": "https://www.designcommunicationsltd.com", "hq": { "city": "Avon", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" } ], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as fabricator on three Studio Matthews Seattle-waterfront-area projects (Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion 2024, Waterfront Park donor recognition 2026, Center for the Arts Jackson Hole 2026); company website actively maintained with current project portfolio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Design Communications Ltd. (DCL) is a custom fabricator of architectural signage, exhibits, and experiential elements, headquartered in Avon, Massachusetts since 1984, with a Seattle office serving West Coast projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.designcommunicationsltd.com", "https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/avon/profile/signs/design-communications-ltd-0021-27717", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/ocean-pavilion/" ] }, { "id": "design-io", "name": "Design I/O", "aka": [ "Design I/O LLC" ], "website": "https://www.design-io.com", "hq": { "city": "Petaluma", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 2010, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "Website live and maintained with current office addresses (2026); newest dated project evidence is the Connections Wall at The Tech Interactive (November 2021); no dated public activity found 2023-2026. Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Digital Design, 2020.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Design I/O is an interactive installation studio founded in 2010 by Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson, based in Petaluma, California and Brooklyn, New York, creating immersive, gesture- and movement-driven interactive installations for museums, science centers, and public spaces, with deep roots in the openFrameworks creative-coding community. It won the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Digital Design in 2020.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.design-io.com/about", "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/national-design-awards/2020-national-design-awards-winners/" ] }, { "id": "diamond-schmitt-architects", "name": "Diamond Schmitt Architects", "aka": [], "website": "https://dsai.ca", "hq": { "city": "Toronto", "state": "ON", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Vancouver", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1975, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center (reopened 2022) and the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences (2021, a Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards Finalist, Spaces and Places, 2022); ~300-person firm's own site actively lists current work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Diamond Schmitt Architects is a Toronto-based architecture practice founded in 1975 by Jack Diamond and Donald Schmitt, with additional offices in Vancouver and New York, known for performing-arts and cultural buildings including concert halls and theatres across North America.\n", "sources": [ "https://dsai.ca/studio/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Schmitt_Architects" ] }, { "id": "digital-ambiance", "name": "Digital Ambiance", "aka": [], "website": "https://digitalambiance.com", "hq": { "city": "Berkeley", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Strata at Mesa City Hall completed 2025 (independently announced by the City of Mesa); The Wind Creek Candelabrum opened with the casino in November 2024; active portfolio site.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Digital Ambiance is a Berkeley, California design-build studio for immersive and interactive light and media environments, delivering design, engineering, custom hardware, and interactive software for permanent installations in public spaces, casinos, and mixed-use developments.\n", "sources": [ "https://digitalambiance.com/studio/", "https://digitalambiance.com/contact/", "https://mesanow.org/news/public/article/3449" ] }, { "id": "diller-scofidio-renfro", "name": "Diller Scofidio + Renfro", "aka": [ "Diller + Scofidio", "DS+R" ], "website": "https://dsrny.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1981, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Firm website (dsrny.com) actively maintained with current project listings; ongoing high-profile cultural work including the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum and prior Cooper Hewitt interactive-tables and reopening work in this index; firm continues under four partners (Diller, Renfro, Gilmartin, with Scofidio senior partner).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York City interdisciplinary architecture studio founded in 1981 by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio as Diller + Scofidio; Charles Renfro joined in 1997 and became partner in 2004, when the firm took its current name. Known for integrating architecture with visual and performing arts, its museum work includes the Cooper Hewitt reopening and interactive tables, and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum galleries.\n", "sources": [ "https://dsrny.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diller_Scofidio_+_Renfro", "https://www.artforum.com/news/diller-scofidio-renfro-names-new-partner-55512" ] }, { "id": "dillon-works", "name": "Dillon Works", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Mukilteo", "state": "WA" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabrication on Woodland Park Zoo's Zoomazium (Seattle, WA, opened 2006); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Dillon Works is a Mukilteo, Washington-based themed-environment fabrication studio.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.dillonworks.com/" ] }, { "id": "dimensional-innovations", "name": "Dimensional Innovations", "aka": [], "website": "https://dimin.com/", "hq": { "city": "Overland Park", "state": "KS" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2000, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multiple project openings 2024-2026 (per portfolio and press), including the Sunoco Victory Flag at Daytona International Speedway (2016) and ongoing sports, corporate, and cultural venue work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Dimensional Innovations is an Overland Park, Kansas-based experiential design and fabrication studio working across sports venues, corporate headquarters, and cultural institutions, spanning exhibit design, fabrication, media design, and lighting design.\n", "sources": [ "https://dimin.com/" ] }, { "id": "diversified", "name": "Diversified", "aka": [ "Diversified Systems" ], "website": "https://onediversified.com", "hq": { "city": "Plano", "state": "TX" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1993, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Opened new global headquarters in Plano, TX (Oct 2024); Museum of Art + Light AV system installation completed and museum opened (Nov 2024); scheduled participation in NAB 2026; active case-study portfolio and hiring maintained on onediversified.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Diversified is a Plano, Texas-based (formerly Kenilworth, New Jersey) global audiovisual systems integrator founded in 1993, providing AV design, integration, and installation services for museums, cultural institutions, and brand experience centers alongside its much larger broadcast, corporate, and enterprise AV business.\n", "sources": [ "https://onediversified.com/company/about-diversified", "https://dallasinnovates.com/audiovisual-innovation-leader-diversified-relocates-global-hq-to-north-texas/", "https://onediversified.com/case-studies" ] }, { "id": "dlr-group", "name": "DLR Group", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.dlrgroup.com", "hq": { "city": "Omaha", "state": "NE" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1966, "roles": [ "architecture", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed a $150M, 375,000-sq-ft renovation and expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (construction complete December 2024), the first U.S. museum to achieve LEEDv4 BD+C New Construction Platinum certification; project recognized at the 2025 Prix Versailles. Firm maintains an active, continuously updated project portfolio and a dedicated Experiential Graphic Design service line.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "DLR Group is a 100%-employee-owned, multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, founded in 1966, with offices across the US plus Dubai and Shanghai. Its practice spans K-12 and higher education, sports/athletics, healthcare, justice/civic, and cultural building types; in this index it is credited for building architecture and, through its in-house Experiential Graphic Design practice, environmental graphics and wayfinding on museum and educational-campus projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.dlrgroup.com/firm/history/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLR_Group", "https://www.dlrgroup.com/services/experiential-graphic-design/", "https://www.dlrgroup.com/work/cleveland-museum-of-natural-history-transformation/" ] }, { "id": "dome-collective", "name": "Dome", "aka": [ "Dome Collective", "Dome Collaborative" ], "website": "https://www.domecollective.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2014, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the National Medal of Honor Museum (opened March 22, 2025, Arlington TX); This Is New York exhibition (Museum of the City of New York) opened May 2023; studio website (copyright 2026) and client portfolio actively maintained as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Dome (also known as Dome Collective) is a Brooklyn, New York experience design studio founded in 2014 by Lynn Kiang and Katie Lee, working on digital media strategy, interaction design, and interactive installations for museums and cultural institutions. It is certified as a Minority Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) in New York City and State.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.domecollective.com/", "https://domecollective-info.lynnkiang.com/about.html", "https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations/digital-innovation-collaborators" ] }, { "id": "donna-lawrence-productions", "name": "Donna Lawrence Productions", "aka": [], "website": "https://dlproductions.com", "hq": { "city": "Louisville", "state": "KY" }, "roles": [ "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active project portfolio maintained on dlproductions.com as of this check, including recent museum film credits; founder Donna Lawrence continues to be credited on museum media projects.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Donna Lawrence Productions is a Louisville, Kentucky-based production company founded by Donna Lawrence that creates multi-screen, 4D, and 360-degree films and media installations for museums and visitor attractions.\n", "sources": [ "https://dlproductions.com/projects/", "https://internationalquorum.com/portfolio/donna-lawrence/" ] }, { "id": "downstream", "name": "Downstream", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.oneelevate.com", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Amsterdam", "country": "NL" } ], "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "NetApp Executive Briefing Center, San Jose (2025); acquired by Elevate in December 2025 and operating as a studio within Elevate Creative — newer work (e.g. the new Nissan Stadium appointment) is publicly credited to Elevate.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Downstream is a Portland, Oregon experiential design and audiovisual firm specializing in permanent digitally augmented environments — large-scale LED media environments, interactive installations, content systems, and environmental branding — for sports venues, executive briefing and experience centers, and corporate campuses. It was part of Unispace Group from 2021 and was acquired by Elevate in December 2025.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unispace-acquires-global-experiential-design-firm-downstream-301393847.html", "https://www.oneelevate.com/article/elevate-expands-global-creative-leadership-with-strategic-acquisitions-of-downstream-and-ga", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150514005035/en/" ] }, { "id": "ehdd", "name": "EHDD", "aka": [ "Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis", "EHDD Architecture" ], "website": "https://ehdd.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1946, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed KQED Headquarters Renovation (2021) and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2016); active firm website with current staff/office listings as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "EHDD is a San Francisco-based architecture firm founded in 1946 by Joseph Esherick, known for museum, aquarium, and science-center work and for its focus on sustainable and net-zero-energy design. It is a repeat architect of record on science museum and aquarium expansions across the West Coast.\n", "sources": [ "https://ehdd.com/", "https://ehdd.com/philosophy/history/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHDD" ] }, { "id": "electrosonic", "name": "Electrosonic", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.electrosonic.com", "hq": { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Burbank", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1964, "roles": [ "av-integration", "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Published project profile and news activity within the last year: 2026 AAM Museum Impact Award for Montana Heritage Center's Homeland Gallery (May 2026); 2026 Digital Signage Award and Blooloop Innovation Award for National WWI Museum's Encounters experience (Feb 2026); ISE 2026 recap article (Feb 2026); continued leadership expansion through 2025-2026 (SVP North America promotion, new CFOO, new VP Support & Managed Services); active project-profile and news pages maintained on electrosonic.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Electrosonic is an audiovisual systems integration and technology design firm founded in 1964, providing AV consulting, systems design, build, and support services for museums, themed entertainment venues, and corporate and branded environments, with offices in Orlando, Burbank, New York, and internationally (London, Edinburgh).\n", "sources": [ "https://www.electrosonic.com/about-us", "https://www.electrosonic.com/our-locations", "https://www.electrosonic.com/news/electrosonic-relocates-to-new-corporate-headquarters-and-production-facility-in-orlando-florida", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/electrosonic", "https://www.electrosonic.com/news/inside-ise-2026-electrosonics-experts-share-whats-next-for-av-and-immersive-experiences", "https://www.electrosonic.com/resources/project-profiles" ] }, { "id": "ennead-architects", "name": "Ennead Architects", "aka": [ "James Stewart Polshek and Associates", "Polshek Partnership Architects" ], "website": "https://www.ennead.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1963, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on multiple recently completed cultural/institutional projects: The Pulse at ASU's Beus Center for Law and Society (2016), Signage at PEM alongside the firm's Peabody Essex Museum expansion wing (opened 2019), the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University (opened 2025), and the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering (opened 2020). Merged with CannonDesign in April 2026 but continues practicing as a distinct studio (\"Ennead, a CannonDesign company\") per the firms' joint announcement.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ennead Architects is a New York City-based architecture firm founded in 1963 (as James Stewart Polshek and Associates, renamed Ennead in 2010), known for museum, library, and cultural-institution architecture; became a CannonDesign company in April 2026 while continuing to practice under the Ennead name.\n", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead_Architects", "https://www.archpaper.com/2026/04/cannondesign-acquires-ennead-architects/" ] }, { "id": "entro", "name": "Entro", "aka": [ "Entro Communications" ], "website": "https://entro.com", "hq": { "city": "Toronto", "state": "ON", "country": "CA" }, "roles": [ "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on 3 corpus projects spanning 2016-2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art wayfinding, Powerhouse Arts wayfinding/signage, Calgary Central Library), plus an additional plausible but single-sourced credit on the Sheldon & Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre in Toronto.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Entro is a Toronto-based environmental graphics and wayfinding design firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://segd.org/projects/whitney-museum-american-art-wayfinding/", "https://entro.com" ] }, { "id": "eos-lightmedia", "name": "Eos Lightmedia", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.eoslightmedia.com", "hq": { "city": "Vancouver", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York City", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "lighting-design", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Continuously active lighting/AV design-build practice with a large, currently-listed project portfolio (127+ specialty-lighting credits per its own site); recent completed US work includes the National Museum of African American Music (2021), Museum of Indian Arts & Culture \"Here, Now and Always\" (2022), and the New Jersey Hall of Fame Entertainment and Learning Center (2024); named a TIME World's Greatest Places 2026 project contributor and an SEGD Honor Award 2025 recipient per its own awards page.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Eos Lightmedia is a specialty lighting and audiovisual design-build firm headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded in 2008. It provides lighting design, supply, integration, and controls/programming services for museums, themed attractions, civic and public-art installations, and architectural and presentation spaces, with additional US facilities in Orlando, Florida and New York City.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.eoslightmedia.com/company", "https://www.eoslightmedia.com/", "https://www.eoslightmedia.com/work" ] }, { "id": "esi-design", "name": "ESI Design", "aka": [ "ESI Design, an NBBJ Company", "Edwin Schlossberg Incorporated" ], "website": "https://esidesign.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1977, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active project portfolio maintained on esidesign.com (now hosted under esi.nbbj.com) as of this check; recent published work includes the David Geffen Hall digital experience (2022) in support of AV&C.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "ESI Design is a New York experience-design studio founded by Edwin Schlossberg in 1977, known for weaving interactive and architectural media into museums, cultural institutions, and corporate/commercial spaces; NBBJ acquired the studio in February 2020, and it now operates as ESI Design, an NBBJ Company, with Schlossberg continuing to lead it as an NBBJ partner.\n", "sources": [ "https://esidesign.com", "https://www.archpaper.com/2020/02/nbbj-acquires-esi-design/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/architecture-and-design-firm-nbbj-acquires-esi-design-the-experience-design-studio-led-by-interactive-design-pioneer-edwin-schlossberg-300997789.html" ] }, { "id": "eskew-dumez-ripple", "name": "Eskew Dumez Ripple", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architect of the IGFA Hall of Fame and Museum (Dania Beach, FL, opened 1999); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Eskew Dumez Ripple is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based architecture firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.eskewdumezripple.com/" ] }, { "id": "evidence-design", "name": "Evidence Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.evidencedesign.com/", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2000, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active studio website with current portfolio; credited exhibit designer on the Smithsonian's \"Genome: Unlocking Life's Code\" (2013) and other museum exhibitions; current major project the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center (targeted Nov 2026 opening; building construction completed April 2026), plus the 2023 Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Evidence Design is a Brooklyn, New York-based studio of architects, industrial designers, graphic designers, and content specialists designing museum exhibits and spatial-communication environments, including interactive exhibit development and technical consulting.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.evidencedesign.com/", "https://www.evidencedesign.com/about/", "https://www.evidencedesign.com/work/" ] }, { "id": "ewingcole", "name": "EwingCole", "website": "https://www.ewingcole.com", "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Charlotte", "state": "NC" }, { "city": "Irvine", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Pittsburgh", "state": "PA" }, { "city": "Raleigh", "state": "NC" } ], "founded": 1961, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect of record on the Highmark Mann Center golden- anniversary transformation (opened June 2026); recent published insights (2025) and active recruiting/website presence.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "EwingCole is a Philadelphia-headquartered integrated architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning firm founded in 1961 (originally as Alexander Ewing & Associates), with additional offices in Charlotte, Irvine, New York, Pittsburgh, and Raleigh. The firm works across civic, cultural, education, health, and sports & entertainment sectors and has served as architect of record on multiple Smithsonian exhibition projects and the Highmark Mann Center renovation.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.ewingcole.com/about-ewingcole/", "https://directory.aiaphiladelphia.org/philadelphia/architecture-firm/ewingcole", "https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20150607_Alexander_Ewing__93__architect.html" ] }, { "id": "exhibit-concepts", "name": "Exhibit Concepts, Inc.", "aka": [ "ECI" ], "hq": { "city": "Vandalia", "state": "OH" }, "roles": [ "fabrication", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabricated the American Museum of Science and Energy (Oak Ridge, TN, opened 2018); already credited on 8 existing corpus projects; active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Exhibit Concepts, Inc. (ECI) is a Vandalia, Ohio-based exhibit fabrication company.\n", "sources": [ "https://exhibitconcepts.com/exhibit-concepts-case-study-amse/" ] }, { "id": "explus", "name": "Explus, Inc.", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.explusinc.com/", "hq": { "city": "Sterling", "state": "VA" }, "founded": 1979, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "A dated 2024 portfolio project (International Spy Museum, \"Spying Launched a Nation\") plus confirmed exhibitor status at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums' Building Museums Symposium, March 2025; active ~52,000-sq-ft production facility per its own site. Founding year (1979) is repeated across several third-party business-data aggregators but not independently confirmed on a primary Explus source.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Explus, Inc. is a museum exhibit fabrication company based in Sterling, Virginia, providing custom casework, artifact mounting, scenic and thematic environment construction, interactive/electro-mechanical components, graphics, and AV installation coordination. It typically executes designs originated by separate exhibit-design and architecture firms rather than designing exhibits itself.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.explusinc.com/about.html", "https://www.explusinc.com/portfolio.html", "https://midatlanticmuseums.org/building-museums/past-conferences/building-museums/" ] }, { "id": "fisher-dachs-associates", "name": "Fisher Dachs Associates", "website": "https://www.fisherdachs.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 1963, "roles": [ "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement (2026) and the Delacorte Theater revitalization (2025); website copyright current through 2025 and team/news pages actively maintained.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Fisher Dachs Associates is a New York-based theatre planning and design consultancy, founded by Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher and now led by Joshua Dachs, with more than 1,000 performing-arts projects to its credit.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fisherdachs.com/", "https://www.fisherdachs.com/who-we-are/", "https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/4250/" ] }, { "id": "fisher-marantz-stone", "name": "Fisher Marantz Stone", "aka": [ "FMS", "Jules Fisher & Paul Marantz" ], "website": "https://www.fmsp.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 1971, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Obama Presidential Center (2026), Pittsburgh International Airport terminal (2025), Studio Museum in Harlem (2025), and Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob's Pillow (2025) all completed within the trailing 3 years; active project portfolio at fmsp.com as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Fisher Marantz Stone (FMS) is a New York City-based architectural lighting design firm tracing to 1971, when theatrical lighting designer Jules Fisher partnered with Paul Marantz. FMS designs lighting for museums, performing arts venues, restoration projects, and cultural, academic, and civic institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fmsp.com/", "https://www.fmsp.com/legacy/", "https://architizer.com/firms/fisher-marantz-stone/" ] }, { "id": "fivestone-studios", "name": "Fivestone Studios", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Nashville", "state": "TN" }, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered interactive content for the Johnson Controls OpenBlue Innovation Center (2023) and the Lenovo U.S. Executive Briefing Center reopening (2026); active current portfolio at fivestonestudios.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Fivestone Studios is a Nashville, Tennessee-based immersive media studio (projection mapping, LED, AR/VR/XR, interactive kiosks) working across museums and corporate executive briefing/customer experience centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fivestonestudios.com", "https://www.electrosonic.com/projects/johnson-controls-openblue-innovation-center-milwaukee" ] }, { "id": "float4", "name": "FLOAT4", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Montreal", "state": "QC" }, "country": "CA", "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered interactive media for the Statue of Liberty Museum (2019) and the Desjardins Space brand experience centre (Montreal, refreshed 2020); active current portfolio at float4.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "FLOAT4 is a Montreal, Quebec-based multidisciplinary digital/ interactive studio (founded 2008), using its proprietary RealMotion platform for museum, airport, and brand-experience installations.\n", "sources": [ "https://float4.com", "https://float4.com/en/projects/the-statue-of-liberty-museum/" ] }, { "id": "formations-inc", "name": "Formations, Inc.", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.formationsinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Troutdale", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1989, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Coastside History Museum opening exhibition (2023) and the K-25 History Center (2020, fabrication/AV/lighting); firm's own site actively listing work spanning the Louisville Slugger Museum (2008) to recent projects.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Formations, Inc. is a Troutdale, Oregon-based exhibit design and fabrication firm founded in 1989, providing planning, design, fabrication, and installation of interpretive exhibits and thematic interiors for museums nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.formationsinc.com/about", "https://www.formationsinc.com/louisville-slugger" ] }, { "id": "foster-and-partners", "name": "Foster + Partners", "aka": [ "Foster and Partners" ], "website": "https://www.fosterandpartners.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" } ], "founded": 1967, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture credit on three US buildings spanning 2006-2014 (Hearst Tower, Yale School of Management's Edward P. Evans Hall, S.C. Johnson's Fortaleza Hall); maintains standing New York and San Francisco studios as part of an active global practice (~1,500 staff) with ongoing major US work (e.g. Apple Park, Cupertino).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Foster + Partners is a global architecture, urbanism, and design firm founded by Norman Foster in London in 1967. Its firm record here reflects its North America operating reality: standing studios in New York (record HQ) and San Francisco have independently delivered a sustained body of US work, including landmark buildings credited on this index for architecture alongside environmental-graphics, media-design, and interior partners.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fosterandpartners.com/studio/new-york", "https://www.fosterandpartners.com/studio/san-francisco", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_and_Partners", "https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/projects/hearst-corporation-hearst-tower-signage/" ] }, { "id": "frederick-fisher-and-partners", "name": "Frederick Fisher and Partners", "aka": [], "website": "https://fisherpartners.net", "hq": { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1980, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on NHM Commons at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (opened November 2024); firm received AIA California's 2024 Firm Award.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Frederick Fisher and Partners is a Los Angeles-based architecture and interior design practice founded in 1980 by Frederick Fisher, with an additional office in New York, working on cultural, arts, and educational buildings including museums and university facilities nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://fisherpartners.net/", "https://aud.ucla.edu/news-events/news/frederick-fisher-2024-firm-award" ] }, { "id": "full-point-graphics", "name": "Full Point Graphics", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 2011, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Live portfolio listing 2024 work (Lewis Latimer House Museum reinstallation, The Met's \"Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion\") as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Full Point Graphics is a Brooklyn, New York-based studio, established in 2011 and run by Hiroshi Kumagai, producing cut-vinyl lettering, large format printing, stencils, hand-painted signage, and gilding for museum and exhibition graphics.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fullpointgraphics.com/about", "https://www.fullpointgraphics.com/services", "https://www.fullpointgraphics.com/work" ] }, { "id": "fxcollaborative", "name": "FXCollaborative", "aka": [ "Fox & Fowle Architects", "FXFOWLE Architects" ], "website": "https://www.fxcollaborative.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "founded": 1978, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Statue of Liberty Museum (2019); active current portfolio including 1 Willoughby Square and recent Architectural Record coverage of its Brooklyn office.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "FXCollaborative is a Brooklyn, NY-based architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1978 (as Fox & Fowle Architects, renamed FXFOWLE in 2005 and FXCollaborative in 2018), with a second office in Washington, DC.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.fxcollaborative.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXCollaborative", "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/01/18/1296343/0/en/FXFOWLE-ARCHITECTS-UNVEILS-NEW-FIRM-NAME-FXCollaborative.html" ] }, { "id": "gallagher-and-associates", "name": "Gallagher & Associates", "aka": [ "G&A" ], "website": "https://gallagherdesign.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" } ], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit design credited on the National Medal of Honor Museum, which opened March 22, 2025 in Arlington, TX; active project portfolio and \"Insights\" articles maintained on gallagherdesign.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Gallagher & Associates (trading as G&A) is a New York-based museum and experience planning and design firm founded in 1999 by Patrick Gallagher, with additional offices in Washington, DC and Portland, OR, working on museum, exhibition, and themed-entertainment projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://gallagherdesign.com/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/contact/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gallagher-&-associates", "https://blooloop.com/theme-park/in-depth/g-a-new-chapter-gallagher-associates/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/national-medal-of-honor-museum/", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17450-rafael-vinoly-architectss-national-medal-of-honor-museum-opens-in-arlington-texas" ] }, { "id": "gehry-partners", "name": "Gehry Partners, LLP", "aka": [ "Frank O. Gehry and Associates", "Frank Gehry & Associates" ], "website": "https://www.foga.com", "hq": { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1962, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Firm continues to operate with a staff of over 100 following founder Frank Gehry's death on December 5, 2025 (age 96); in-progress projects at time of his death included the Colburn School expansion and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, per multiple obituaries (NPR, Washington Post, Architectural Record).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Gehry Partners, LLP is a Los Angeles architecture firm established by Frank Gehry in 1962 (as Frank O. Gehry and Associates; renamed Gehry Partners in 2001), known for landmark works including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Museum and cultural credits in this index include the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, the Museum of Pop Culture, and wayfinding/core project work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17899-frank-gehry-dies-at-96", "https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/527785250/frank-gehry-dead", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/12/05/frank-gehry-dead/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry" ] }, { "id": "gensler", "name": "Gensler", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.gensler.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1965, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Large, active global architecture practice with continuously updated project portfolio; multiple museum/cultural/institutional and airport projects credited in this dataset (AKC Museum of the Dog 2020 SEGD Award, Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice wayfinding 2018, New Jersey Hall of Fame Learning Center, JetBlue Terminal 5/T5i at JFK, Jackie Robinson Museum Ebbets Field interactive via the Gensler DXD digital-experience studio, 2022).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm headquartered in San Francisco, founded in 1965, working across workplace, aviation, cultural, and institutional building types including museum and airport projects credited in this index.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.gensler.com/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gensler", "https://www.gensler.com/projects/jetblue-jfk-t5i-t5-expansion" ] }, { "id": "ggn", "name": "GGN", "aka": [ "Gustafson Guthrie Nichol", "Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd" ], "website": "https://www.ggnltd.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Landscape architecture credited on Founders Hall at the University of Washington (2022) and the South Lake Union Urban Meadow interpretive installation (2022); firm site (ggnltd.com) maintains an active project portfolio and lists the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award among its recognitions as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol) is a Seattle-based landscape architecture firm founded in 1999 by Kathryn Gustafson, Jennifer Guthrie, and Shannon Nichol, designing high-use public landscapes in complex urban and institutional settings, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus and the National Museum of African American History and Culture grounds.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.ggnltd.com", "https://www.ggnltd.com/info", "https://www.asla.org/AwardRecipient.aspx?id=50921", "https://olsonkundig.com/projects/burke-museum-of-natural-history-and-culture/", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/founders-hall/" ] }, { "id": "glowbox", "name": "Glowbox", "aka": [ "Glowbox, LLC" ], "website": "https://www.glowbox.io", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "Website live but its newest independently verifiable public activity is mid-2022 (GitHub organization last updated July 2022; site copyright 2022; no dated 2023-2026 projects or press found); Oregon LLC registry listed active. No confirmed closure.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Glowbox is a Portland, Oregon interactive media studio — a self-described \"spatial interaction lab\" — providing experience strategy, technical direction, systems design, and custom software development (Unity, openFrameworks, and web stacks) for interactive installations in museums and public venues, typically as the media/software partner under a separate lead designer.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.glowbox.io/about/", "https://www.glowbox.io/" ] }, { "id": "graham-baba-architects", "name": "Graham Baba Architects", "aka": [], "website": "https://grahambaba.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Bellingham", "state": "WA" } ], "founded": 2006, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on Ballard Food Bank (2021), Understory at Amazon Spheres (2017), and associate architect on Seattle Convention Center Summit Building (2023); opened a second office in Bellingham, WA in 2021; firm website actively maintained with current project roster.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Graham Baba Architects is a Seattle-based architecture firm founded in 2006 by Jim Graham and Brett Baba, working on commercial, residential, and institutional projects across the Pacific Northwest.\n", "sources": [ "https://grahambaba.com", "https://www.strogoffconsulting.com/news--graham-baba.html", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/understory-at-amazon-spheres/" ] }, { "id": "group-delphi", "name": "Group Delphi", "aka": [ "Delphi Productions" ], "website": "https://museums.groupdelphi.com", "hq": { "city": "Alameda", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 1989, "roles": [ "fabrication", "av-integration" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "REVERSAL of the 2026-07-18 \"active\" determination, based on new evidence: museums.groupdelphi.com (the site that determination cited as evidence of activity) is now dead (NXDOMAIN); the legacy groupdelphi.com domain 301-redirects to an unrelated third-party site, the signature of a lapsed domain; the Wayback Machine has no real content capture since January 2022; an Indeed company-page review dated 2026-01-28 states \"they're not there anymore they closed\"; and no confirmable completed project was found after 2019 (Toyota Experience Center Plano). LinkedIn's company page still reads as active but is self-maintained and weighted below the above. Recommend an independent CA Secretary of State entity check before treating this as fully final, but public evidence clears the inactive bar. Operated 1989-2009 as Delphi Productions before merging with Icon Exhibits.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Group Delphi (Delphi Productions until 2009) was a museum exhibit fabrication, AV integration, and media-production company based in Alameda, California, producing custom casework, interactives, and exhibit components for science centers and museums.\n", "sources": [ "https://museums.groupdelphi.com/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sparks-launches-multiphase-growth-plan-with-acquisition-of-group-delphis-trade-show-and-events-business-301191326.html", "https://web.archive.org/web/20220129000000*/museums.groupdelphi.com" ] }, { "id": "gwwo-architects", "name": "GWWO Architects", "aka": [ "GWWO Inc./Architects", "Grieves Worrall Wright & O'Hatnick" ], "website": "https://www.gwwoinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Baltimore", "state": "MD" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "West Hartford", "state": "CT" } ], "founded": 1990, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed the National World War I Memorial and Pershing Park in Washington, DC (2024) and the Manassas Museum renovation and expansion (2023); active firm website with current office listings as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "GWWO Architects is a Baltimore, Maryland-based architecture firm formed in 1990 through the merger of two Baltimore firms (Grieves Associates and Worrall & Associates), specializing in cultural and educational architecture including museums, visitor centers, and memorials.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.gwwoinc.com/about", "https://www.gwwoinc.com/contact" ] }, { "id": "gyroscope-inc", "name": "Gyroscope, Inc.", "website": "https://www.gyroscopeinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Oakland", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 1992, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on El Paso Children's Museum's La Nube STEAM Discovery Center (2024); active hiring/portfolio pages on its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Gyroscope, Inc. is an Oakland, CA-based museum experience-planning and exhibit-design studio founded in 1992 by Maeryta Medrano, working primarily with science centers and children's museums.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.gyroscopeinc.com/", "https://www.gyroscopeinc.com/about" ] }, { "id": "hadley-exhibits", "name": "Hadley Exhibits", "aka": [], "website": "https://hadleyexhibits.com", "hq": { "city": "Buffalo", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1946, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Currently maintained 180,000-sq-ft fabrication facility and active portfolio; credited on multiple recently completed projects (Waterway of Change at Canalside, 2025; Pinehurst Heritage Hallway and Golf House Pinehurst/USGA Experience and World Golf Hall of Fame, both 2024).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Hadley Exhibits is a Buffalo, New York-based exhibit design and fabrication company founded in 1946, working across museums, visitor centers, zoos and gardens, and trade show/corporate exhibits, offering design, fabrication, installation, and artifact mounting services from a 180,000-sq-ft facility.\n", "sources": [ "https://hadleyexhibits.com/", "https://hadleyexhibits.com/about-hadley/", "https://hadleyexhibits.com/permanent-installations/" ] }, { "id": "hargreaves-associates", "name": "Hargreaves Jones", "aka": [ "Hargreaves Associates", "Hargreaves, Allen, Sinkosky & Loomis" ], "website": "https://www.hargreaves.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Cambridge", "state": "MA" } ], "founded": 1983, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Landscape architect of record on the William J. Clinton Presidential Center (2004), the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2016), and NYU Langone's Kimmel Pavilion (2018). Firm's own site (as \"Hargreaves Jones,\" the current trading name since Mary Margaret Jones became President/CEO) is live and current as of 2026 with three active offices.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Hargreaves Jones (founded 1983 by George Hargreaves as Hargreaves Associates) is a landscape architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Cambridge, MA, known for large-scale waterfront, campus, and urban-park transformations including Chattanooga's 21st Century Waterfront and London's 2012 Olympic Park.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hargreaves.com/profile/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hargreaves" ] }, { "id": "healykohler", "name": "HealyKohler Design", "website": "https://www.healykohler.com", "hq": { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit, graphic, and media design credited on the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum renovation, which reopened May 14, 2025; the National Medal of Honor Leadership & Education Center at Patriots Point (Mount Pleasant, SC) publicly announced for a Memorial Day 2026 opening with HealyKohler named as exhibit designer; active project portfolio maintained on healykohler.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "HealyKohler Design is a Washington, DC-based museum planning and exhibition design studio founded in 2008 by Terence Healy and Susan Kohler, providing interpretive master planning, exhibition design, media design, and environmental graphics for museums, visitor centers, halls of fame, and historic sites across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.healykohler.com/", "https://www.healykohler.com/studio/", "https://www.healykohler.com/work/", "https://www.healykohler.com/project/international-tennis-hall-of-fame-museum/", "https://www.healykohler.com/project/beyond-the-battle-museum/", "https://www.healykohler.com/project/national-medal-of-honor-leadership-education-center/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/healy-kohler-design" ] }, { "id": "hewitt", "name": "Hewitt", "aka": [ "Hewitt Architects", "Hewitt Daly Isley", "Hewitt Isley" ], "website": "https://hewittseattle.com/", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "founded": 1975, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Landscape architecture credit on Vashon Food Bank (opened March 2026) and Renton Market (opened June 2026), both alongside Graham Baba Architects; active firm website with current project listings across architecture, landscape architecture, and transportation architecture studios.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Hewitt is a Seattle, Washington-based architecture firm founded in 1975 by David Hewitt (originally as Hewitt Daly Architects), whose landscape architecture studio — established in 1988 as in-house support for the firm's housing, civic, and transit work — now collaborates broadly with outside architecture firms on site design across the Pacific Northwest.\n", "sources": [ "https://hewittseattle.com/whoweare/", "https://hewittseattle.com/landscape-architecture/studio/", "https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/3118/" ] }, { "id": "hga", "name": "HGA", "aka": [ "Hammel, Green and Abrahamson", "HGA Architects and Engineers" ], "website": "https://hga.com", "hq": { "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Rochester", "state": "MN" }, { "city": "Madison", "state": "WI" }, { "city": "Milwaukee", "state": "WI" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "San Jose", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Sacramento", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Alexandria", "state": "VA" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" } ], "founded": 1953, "roles": [ "architecture", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Jackson Hole History Museum opened June 2024 (most recent HGA museum project); active project portfolio maintained on hga.com as of this check, including announced/in-progress cultural work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson) is a Minneapolis, MN-based national multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm founded in 1953, with offices across the Upper Midwest, West Coast, and East Coast. Within the Experiential Design Index, HGA is credited as architect of record on museum, cultural center, and visitor-facing institutional building projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.architectmagazine.com/firms/hga", "https://hga.com/", "https://www.mnhs.org/preservation/directory/3095" ] }, { "id": "hilferty-and-associates", "name": "Hilferty & Associates", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.hilferty.com", "hq": { "city": "Athens", "state": "OH" }, "founded": 1971, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Live, actively maintained portfolio site presenting current work; the firm's own site states it has managed over 200 projects since 1971.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Hilferty & Associates is a museum planning and exhibit design firm based near Athens, Ohio, founded in 1971, working with history and cultural museums across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hilferty.com/", "https://www.hilferty.com/team" ] }, { "id": "history-associates", "name": "History Associates Incorporated", "aka": [ "HAI" ], "website": "https://www.historyassociates.com", "hq": { "city": "Rockville", "state": "MD" }, "founded": 1981, "roles": [ "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active site with dated project posts (incl. a post on the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience) and a maintained services/timeline page as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "History Associates Incorporated (HAI) is a Rockville, Maryland-based historical research, archival services, and interpretive-content firm, founded in 1981, providing research, scriptwriting, and storytelling services to museums, corporations, and government clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.historyassociates.com/", "https://www.historyassociates.com/timeline/", "https://www.historyassociates.com/history-associates-conducts-research-and-image-acquisition-for-striking-new-museum-mississippi-arts-entertainment-experience/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/sazerac/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/spy/" ] }, { "id": "hks", "name": "HKS", "aka": [ "HKS, Inc.", "HKS Architects" ], "website": "https://www.hksinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Dallas", "state": "TX" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA" } ], "founded": 1939, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed Cosm Dallas and Cosm Los Angeles (both 2024); won the 2024 AIA Architecture Award for SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park; active project pipeline and news coverage on hksinc.com through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "HKS is a Dallas-based international architecture firm founded in 1939 by Harwood K. Smith, with more than 1,400 staff across offices worldwide. It is one of the leading sports-and-entertainment architecture practices in the US, credited with AT&T Stadium, SoFi Stadium, U.S. Bank Stadium, American Airlines Center, and the Cosm immersive-dome entertainment venues, alongside performing-arts venues including YouTube Theater and the Dr. Marcelo Cavazos Center for Visual and Performing Arts.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hksinc.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKS,_Inc.", "https://www.hksinc.com/our-news/articles/hks-wins-2024-aia-architecture-award-for-sofi-stadium-and-hollywood-park/" ] }, { "id": "hntb", "name": "HNTB Corporation", "aka": [ "Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff" ], "website": "https://www.hntb.com", "hq": { "city": "Kansas City", "state": "MO" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1914, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture credit on the 2025 Rock Chalk Renaissance renovation of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and the 2021-opened Lower.com Field, plus the 2019 Tulsa AERO bus rapid transit stations; a top-tier US infrastructure and architecture firm with 2022 architecture-division revenue of $693M, second highest of any US architecture firm.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "HNTB Corporation is an employee-owned infrastructure design firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1914 (as Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff, renamed HNTB in 1993). Its architecture practice designs sports and transportation venues nationally, including stadium architecture credited alongside experiential graphics and fabrication partners on this index.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hntb.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNTB", "https://dimin.com/work/tulsa-transit" ] }, { "id": "hok", "name": "HOK", "aka": [ "Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum" ], "website": "https://www.hok.com", "hq": { "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA" }, { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1955, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Celebrated its 70th anniversary (Jan 2025); Atlanta studio named AIA Georgia's 2025 Firm of the Year; named Metropolis magazine's \"Firm of the Year\" for sustainable design leadership (2025); Caltech quantum research center dedicated (June 2026).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "HOK is a global interdisciplinary architecture, engineering, interiors, and planning firm founded in 1955 and headquartered in St. Louis, with 28 offices on three continents. Within the experiential-design space its work spans museum architecture — including the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and its Udvar-Hazy Center annex — and corporate experience center architecture and exhibit design for clients including Honeywell, Porsche, and KCP&L.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hok.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOK_(firm)", "https://www.hok.com/news/2025-01/hok-celebrates-70th-anniversary/" ] }, { "id": "holman-exhibits", "name": "Holman Exhibits", "aka": [ "Holman Exhibits Limited", "Holman" ], "website": "https://weareholman.com/", "hq": { "city": "Toronto", "province": true, "country": "CA" }, "founded": 1964, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabrication and exhibit-design partner on the Ottawa Riverkeeper Learning Lab at NCC River House, completed 2025, and fabrication on the Massey Hall exhibits (Toronto, completed 2022, Heritage Toronto award nominee); active 40,000-square-foot production facility under current ownership (A.J. Sparkes, since 2019).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Holman Exhibits is a Toronto, Ontario-based exhibit fabrication company founded in 1964 by Peter Holman, specializing in the design, fabrication, and installation of museum, retail, and trade-show exhibits from a 40,000-square-foot production facility.\n", "sources": [ "https://weareholman.com/about-us/", "https://sportsheritage.org/member/holman-exhibits/", "https://exhibitcitynews.com/holman-exhibits-limited-founder-passes-away/", "https://designrp.com/projects/ottawa-riverkeepers-learning-lab/" ] }, { "id": "howard-plus-revis-design", "name": "Howard+Revis Design", "aka": [ "Howard-Revis Design Services, Inc.", "Howard+Revis Design Services" ], "website": "https://www.howardrevis.com", "hq": { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Selected as exhibit design firm for the future Jim Crow Museum project (announced 2021); active project portfolio maintained on howardrevis.com as of this check, including recent work such as \"Girlhood (It's Complicated).\"\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Howard+Revis Design is a Washington, DC-based interpretive planning and exhibit design studio led by principals Jeff Howard and Tracy Revis, producing content-driven exhibits for museums, visitor centers, memorials, and heritage sites, including the National Civil Rights Museum renovation and the Lucy Burns Museum.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.howardrevis.com/", "https://www.ferris.edu/news/archive/2021/july/jimcrowmuseum.htm", "https://workhousearts.org/lucy-burns-museum/", "https://memphismagazine.com/features/the-national-civil-rights-museum-celebrates-a-remarkable-renovation/" ] }, { "id": "hyperquake", "name": "Hyperquake", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Cincinnati", "state": "OH" }, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lead exhibit design on the Illumina Executive Briefing Center (2023) and the Johnson Controls OpenBlue Innovation Center (2023); active current portfolio at hyperquake.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Hyperquake is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based experience design studio working across brand experience centers, executive briefing centers, and customer experience centers for corporate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.hyperquake.com", "https://gbdmagazine.com/zgf-illumina/" ] }, { "id": "ia-interior-architects", "name": "IA Interior Architects", "aka": [ "IA" ], "website": "https://interiorarchitects.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA" }, { "city": "Austin", "state": "TX" }, { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, { "city": "Charlotte", "state": "NC" }, { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, { "city": "Dallas", "state": "TX" }, { "city": "Denver", "state": "CO" }, { "city": "Houston", "state": "TX" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Miami", "state": "FL" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, { "city": "Raleigh", "state": "NC" }, { "city": "Sacramento", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed Relish'in Change for Relish Works, Chicago (2024), which won a 2025 SEGD Global Design Award Honor Award; ongoing active project portfolio and office network as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "IA Interior Architects is a San Francisco-based global interior architecture firm founded in 1984, with 18 US studios and a London office. Its work is overwhelmingly corporate workplace interiors, with occasional experiential design and branded-environment work for corporate clients and, less often, public civic and cultural facilities.\n", "sources": [ "https://interiorarchitects.com/who-we-are/", "https://interiorarchitects.com/what-we-do/", "https://segd.org/firms/ia-interior-architects/", "https://interiorarchitects.com/find-ia/" ] }, { "id": "ideum", "name": "Ideum", "aka": [], "website": "https://ideum.com", "hq": { "city": "Corrales", "state": "NM" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "media-design", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Volcano Discovery Center at Valles Caldera National Preserve opened July 2025; Dueling Dinosaurs experience at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Voices from the Front at the National WWII Museum both opened in 2024; company marked its 25th anniversary in 2025 with continued product launches (+PLUS touch table series, TouchStory Reader Rail Builder).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ideum is a Corrales, New Mexico-based exhibit design and production firm founded in 1999 by Jim Spadaccini, building custom multitouch hardware, interactive software, and fabricated exhibits for museums, science centers, visitor centers, and cultural institutions. It relocated from Sausalito, California to New Mexico in 2005 and operates an in-house exhibit fabrication studio in Corrales opened in 2018.\n", "sources": [ "https://ideum.com/about-ideum", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideum", "https://ideum.com/news/fabrication-studio-ribbon-cutting", "https://ideum.com/news/farewell-to-2025" ] }, { "id": "imagine-visual-services", "name": "Imagine Visual Service", "aka": [ "Imagine Visual Services" ], "website": "https://www.imaginevs.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Acquired by SuperGraphics LLC (Seattle), effective January 13, 2026, per a joint press release independently republished by goskagit.com, and corroborated by Crunchbase and Mergr M&A records; imaginevs.com now redirects entirely to supergraphics.com. This resolves the prior (2026-07-18) \"unclear\" determination, which was made before the acquisition's terms were confirmed.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Imagine Visual Service was a Seattle-based, woman-owned digital print production, fabrication, and installation company serving museum and exhibit fabricators, retail, and event clients nationally.\n", "sources": [ "https://studiomatthews.com/project/heritage-displays/", "https://www.bbb.org/us/wa/seattle/profile/general-contractor/imagine-visual-service-llc-1296-22947637" ] }, { "id": "infinity-sign-systems", "name": "Infinity Sign Systems", "aka": [], "website": "https://infinitysignsystems.com/", "hq": { "city": "Kansas City", "state": "MO" }, "founded": 2006, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Actively updated company website and social channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) as of 2026; credited as a 2025-2026 project partner on Dimensional Innovations' Atlas9 (Kansas City, KS) alongside Swell Spark, Perspective Architecture + Design, and Homefield, per Atlas9's own project-team page.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Infinity Sign Systems is an employee-owned, full-service sign design, fabrication, and installation company based in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 2006. It works across design, permitting, fabrication, installation, and maintenance of exterior and interior signage, and has partnered on several Kansas-area experiential projects with Dimensional Innovations, including Atlas9, the Iola Theatre marquee restoration, and Tap Ins at the Greenhouse.\n", "sources": [ "https://infinitysignsystems.com/", "https://infinitysignsystems.com/about/", "https://www.atlas9.com/project-team", "https://dimin.com/work/atlas9" ] }, { "id": "isometric-studio", "name": "Isometric Studio", "aka": [], "website": "https://isometricstudio.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2013, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Joan Semmel: In the Flesh opened at The Jewish Museum (December 2025); Robert Rauschenberg's New York opened at the Museum of the City of New York (September 2025); signage and environmental graphics for the National Black Theatre's new building in progress, expected 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Isometric Studio is a Brooklyn-based design studio combining graphic design and architecture, founded in 2013 by Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid. It works primarily with museums, cultural institutions, and universities on exhibition architecture, visual identity, and environmental graphics and wayfinding.\n", "sources": [ "https://isometricstudio.com/about", "https://isometricstudio.com/work", "https://a-d-o.com/journal/isometric-studio-interview" ] }, { "id": "jack-rouse-associates", "name": "Jack Rouse Associates", "aka": [ "JRA" ], "website": "https://www.rwsglobal.com/jra", "hq": { "city": "Cincinnati", "state": "OH" }, "founded": 1987, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "master-planning", "interpretive-planning", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Acquired by RWS Entertainment Group (now RWS Global) in November 2021; continues operating as RWS Global's Cincinnati studio under the JRA name. jackrouse.com now redirects to rwsglobal.com/jra. Recent dated work includes Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame (2023), View Boston (2023), Kings Island Adventure Port (2023), and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum renovation (2025).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Jack Rouse Associates (JRA) is a museum and themed-entertainment exhibit design firm founded in 1987 in Cincinnati, Ohio by Jack Rouse and Amy Merrell. Since a November 2021 acquisition it operates as the Cincinnati studio of RWS Global, continuing exhibit-design work under the JRA name.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.rwsglobal.com/jra", "https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/jack-rouse-is-cincinnatis-unofficial-minister-of-fun/", "https://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/architecture_design/JRA-becomes-part-of-the-RWS-Entertainment-Group-Keith-James-Ryan-Stana/348790" ] }, { "id": "jaffe-holden", "name": "Jaffe Holden", "aka": [ "Jaffe Holden Acoustics" ], "website": "https://jaffeholden.com", "hq": { "city": "Norwalk", "state": "CT" }, "founded": 1968, "roles": [ "acoustics", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on 92NY's Buttenwieser Hall (2023), Pier 57 public spaces (2022), and the Prior Performing Arts Center (2022); website copyright current through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Jaffe Holden is a Norwalk, CT-based acoustics and audiovisual design consultancy founded in 1968 by acoustician Christopher Jaffe, working primarily on performing-arts, education, and cultural spaces.\n", "sources": [ "https://jaffeholden.com/", "https://jaffeholden.com/who-we-are/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JaffeHolden_Acoustics" ] }, { "id": "kei-space-design", "name": "Kei Space Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://keispace.com", "hq": { "city": "Victoria", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "North Vancouver", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" } ], "founded": 2009, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lead exhibition design on Lowell Observatory's Astronomy Discovery Center and Dark Sky Planetarium, both opened 2024, alongside earlier work at Fort McMurray Heritage Village (2017); active project pages current as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Kei Space Design is an exhibit design collective headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, founded in 2009 by Juan Tanús, with a second studio in North Vancouver. It designs interpretive and exhibition spaces for museums, science centers, and visitor centers, frequently partnering with lighting and AV integration firms such as Eos Lightmedia.\n", "sources": [ "https://keispace.com/", "https://keispace.com/about-us/", "https://keispace.com/projects/lowell/" ] }, { "id": "kieran-timberlake", "name": "KieranTimberlake", "aka": [ "KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP" ], "website": "https://kierantimberlake.com/", "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Current firm website with active project listings; transitioned to 100% employee ownership in 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "KieranTimberlake is a Philadelphia architecture firm founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, known for sustainability-focused institutional and cultural work.\n", "sources": [ "https://kierantimberlake.com/", "https://kierantimberlake.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KieranTimberlake" ] }, { "id": "kirkegaard", "name": "Kirkegaard", "aka": [ "Kirkegaard Associates" ], "website": "https://www.kirkegaard.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Denver", "state": "CO" } ], "founded": 1976, "roles": [ "acoustics", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Jack C. Taylor Music Center expansion of Powell Hall (2025, acoustics) and the Luminary Arts Center renovation (2022, acoustics and AV consulting); firm's own site actively lists ~3,000-project portfolio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Kirkegaard is a Chicago-based architectural acoustics and audiovisual systems design firm founded in 1976 by Lawrence Kirkegaard, with an additional office in Denver, working on concert halls, theatres, schools of music, and other acoustically sensitive spaces nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.kirkegaard.com/our-story/", "https://www.kirkegaard.com/center-of-creative-arts/" ] }, { "id": "kubik-maltbie", "name": "kubik maltbie", "aka": [ "Kubik Maltbie" ], "website": "https://kubikmaltbie.com", "hq": { "city": "Mount Laurel", "state": "NJ" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1961, "roles": [ "fabrication", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited fabrication/AV systems on the Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Exhibition Hall (opened 2024); active project portfolio maintained on kubikmaltbie.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "kubik maltbie is a Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based exhibit fabrication and AV integration firm founded in 1961, producing exhibits, environments, and turnkey fabrication for museums and visitor centers with a portfolio of 400+ completed projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://kubikmaltbie.com/", "https://blooloop.com/museum/in-depth/kubik-maltbie-interview/" ] }, { "id": "l-observatoire-international", "name": "L'Observatoire International", "website": "https://lobsintl.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Paris", "country": "FR" }, { "city": "Seoul", "country": "KR" }, { "city": "London", "country": "GB" } ], "founded": 1993, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Frick Collection renovation and enhancement (2025); 2026 award recognitions on its own site for Printemps NYC and the Frick Collection restoration.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "L'Observatoire International is a New York-based architectural lighting design firm founded in 1993 by Hervé Descottes, working across architecture, landscape, urban, and fine-art projects with satellite studios in Paris, Seoul, and London.\n", "sources": [ "https://lobsintl.com/", "https://lobsintl.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Observatoire_International" ] }, { "id": "leviathan", "name": "Leviathan", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2010, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Leviathan was acquired by Envoy Group in September 2018 and, following a year of growth uniting Envoy's agency brands, was fully rebranded to \"Envoy Chicago\" in August 2021 — the Leviathan name was retired at that point. All of Leviathan's corpus-credited work (Art Institute of Chicago's JourneyMaker, 2016; Madhouse Team Store interactives, 2017; McDonald's Global Headquarters interactives, 2018) predates the rebrand; no work has appeared under the Leviathan name since.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Leviathan was a Chicago-based experience design studio (founded 2010) known for interactive-media installations blending physical space, digital technology, and content design for museums, corporate, and retail clients — including the Art Institute of Chicago's JourneyMaker touch-table (2016) and McDonald's global headquarters interactives (2018). Acquired by Envoy Group in 2018 and folded into the unified \"Envoy\" brand in 2021, ending the Leviathan name.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.commarts.com/features/leviathan", "https://www.adweek.com/agencies/envoy-acquires-agencies-bulldog-drummond-and-leviathan-and-launches-a-consultancy-network/", "https://advertisingweek.com/connected-customer-experience-agency-envoy-consolidates-agency-brands-following-a-record-year-of-growth/" ] }, { "id": "lexington", "name": "Lexington", "aka": [ "Lexington Design + Fabrication", "Lexington Design & Fabrication", "Lexington, A Nassal Company" ], "website": "https://www.nassal.com/", "hq": { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "REVISED 2026-07-19: the prior basis's \"Liberation Pavilion opened 2023\" claim is likely misattributed — no independent source ties Lexington specifically to that 2023 capstone pavilion of The National WWII Museum's multi-phase master plan (1220 Exhibits is independently documented as that pavilion's fabricator); Lexington's own credit on the master-plan project more plausibly belongs to an earlier phase. The most recent independently-verifiable dated Lexington-specific work is Idaho State Museum (2018), outside the standard 3-year window. Kept as `active` on the strength of Nassal's own current corporate materials (the sibling `nassal` firm record explicitly tracks Lexington as a current related brand) plus still-live third-party listings (LinkedIn, Facebook), though Lexington's brand presence has visibly receded on Nassal's current primary site (no longer named on the current homepage or About page, unlike 2018-era materials) — a genuine open question worth re-checking next cycle rather than a confirmed closure.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Lexington is a Los Angeles-based themed-environment design/build fabricator with 30+ years of experience serving museums, casinos, hospitality, retail, broadcast media, and theme parks. Acquired by The Nassal Company in January 2017 (operating since as \"Lexington, A Nassal Company\" and later as one of three branded companies under \"The Companies of Nassal\"), Lexington now shares Nassal's corporate website and no longer maintains an independent portfolio site; its own former domain (lexington.companiesofnassal.com) redirects to nassal.com as of this check.\n", "sources": [ "https://blooloop.com/theme-park/news/lexington-nassal-company/", "https://www.inparkmagazine.com/nassal-lexington/", "https://attractionsmagazine.com/nassal-global-re-brand/", "https://www.nassal.com/projects/idaho-state-museum", "https://www.nassal.com/projects/harrahs-cherokee-casino", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexbynassal" ] }, { "id": "lightswitch", "name": "Lightswitch", "aka": [ "Lightswitch Studio" ], "website": "https://lightswitch.net", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "founded": 1993, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed lighting design for the Hamilton Family Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences (2024); active firm website listing six current offices as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Lightswitch is a Chicago-based lighting, media, and visual design studio founded in 1993 by Norm Schwab and John Featherstone, with additional studios across the US. It is a repeat lighting designer for science museums, aquariums, and theaters.\n", "sources": [ "https://lightswitch.net/", "https://www.lightswitch.net/contact/location/chicago", "https://www.livedesignonline.com/business-people-news/designer-roundtable-lightswitch-at-25-part-one" ] }, { "id": "line-and-space", "name": "Line and Space", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Tucson", "state": "AZ" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (Casper, WY, opened 2002) credits Line and Space as architect; active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Line and Space is a Tucson, Arizona-based architecture firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.lineandspace.com/work/national-historic-trails-interpretive-center" ] }, { "id": "lmn-architects", "name": "LMN Architects", "aka": [], "website": "https://lmnarchitects.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1979, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on Seattle Convention Center Summit Building (opened 2023), Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences signage/storytelling project (2026), and Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion (opened 2024); 2016 AIA National Architecture Firm Award; firm website actively maintained.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "LMN Architects is a Seattle-based architecture firm founded in 1979 (as Loschky, Marquardt and Nesholm), specializing in convention centers, cultural and performing-arts venues, and higher-education buildings.\n", "sources": [ "https://lmnarchitects.com/about/history", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMN_Architects", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/seattle-conv-ctr/" ] }, { "id": "local-projects", "name": "Local Projects", "aka": [], "website": "https://localprojects.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "media-design", "interpretive-planning", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Selected as exhibition designer for the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth (announced October 2024); \"The Inaugural Experience\" at the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum opened October 2023; active project portfolio maintained on localprojects.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Local Projects is a New York City-based experience and media design studio founded by Jake Barton, known for combining exhibit design, interactive media, and software development for museums, memorials, and brand experiences; the firm was acquired by MTM in 2019.\n", "sources": [ "https://localprojects.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Barton", "https://nationaljuneteenthmuseum.org/news-blog/award-winning-design-firm-local-projects-selected-as-exhibition-designer-for-the-national-juneteenth-museum-in-fort-worth" ] }, { "id": "lord-cultural-resources", "name": "Lord Cultural Resources", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.lord.ca", "hq": { "city": "Toronto", "province": true, "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Culver City", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Mumbai", "country": "India" }, { "city": "Madrid", "country": "Spain" }, { "city": "Paris", "country": "France" } ], "founded": 1981, "roles": [ "master-planning", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Interpretive planning credit on Museum of the Rockies' Cretaceous Crossroads exhibition (opened July 2025), the Royal Ontario Museum's Connection Stations (opened March 2025), and the Harry J. Enns Wetland Discovery Centre reopening at Oak Hammock Marsh (opened May 2025); active published project portfolio and press activity through 2026. Museum Studio (a Chargeurs Group company) acquired a 51% majority stake, announced April 10, 2025; Gail Lord remains active, CEO is now Delphine de Canecaude.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Lord Cultural Resources is a Toronto-based cultural planning consultancy founded in 1981 by Gail and Barry Lord, providing master planning and interpretive planning services to museums, cultural districts, science centres, and visitor attractions, with additional offices in New York, Culver City CA, and Mumbai.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.lord.ca/who-we-are/about", "https://www.lord.ca/contact", "https://www.lord.ca/projects", "https://blooloop.com/museum/news/museum-studio-acquires-lord-cultural-resources/" ] }, { "id": "luci-creative", "name": "Luci Creative", "website": "https://www.lucicreative.com", "hq": { "city": "Lincolnwood", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" } ], "founded": 2011, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Opened \"GAME ON! Science, Sports & Play\" at the California Science Center (May 2025); completed the National Music Museum reinstallation (Vermillion, SD, phase 1 opened August 2023); named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest- growing companies (2022); active project portfolio maintained on lucicreative.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Luci Creative is a woman-owned exhibit design studio headquartered in the Chicago area (Lincolnwood, IL), with additional offices in New York and Seattle, working on museum exhibitions, corporate visitor experiences, and brand activations for cultural institutions and companies nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.lucicreative.com/", "https://www.lucicreative.com/contact", "https://www.newswire.com/news/luci-creative-continues-growth-and-expansion-with-opening-of-new-york-22430539", "https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/game-on-science-sports-play" ] }, { "id": "m-catton-and-co", "name": "M. Catton & Co.", "aka": [], "website": "https://mcattonandco.com/", "hq": { "city": "Le Mars", "state": "IA" }, "founded": 2013, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit design credit on the Medal of Honor Museum at Patriots Point renovation, reopened May 2024; active firm website and portfolio, including its proprietary MADWalls modular display system.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "M. Catton & Co. is a Le Mars, Iowa-based exhibit design and fabrication firm founded in 2013, known for its modular MADWalls display system and work with museums and cultural institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://mcattonandco.com/", "https://www.zoominfo.com/c/m-catton--co-llc/399507414", "https://www.patriotspoint.org/news/medal-honor-museum-patriots-point-set-re-open-new-visitor-experiences-after-35-million" ] }, { "id": "mad-systems", "name": "MAD Systems", "aka": [ "Mad Systems, Inc." ], "website": "https://madsystems.com", "hq": { "city": "Orange", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 1998, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered AV integration for Fantasy: Realms of Imagination at the Bowers Museum (opened October 26, 2024) and for Dimensions in Testimony installations at the El Paso Holocaust Museum (opened October 5, 2024) and the Virginia Holocaust Museum (opened November 2024); company website and press coverage updated through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "MAD Systems is an Orange, California-based audiovisual systems integrator founded in 1998 by Maris Ensing. The firm designs, engineers, and installs AV infrastructure for museums, visitor centers, brand experiences, and themed attractions, known for its non-proprietary QuickSilver AV platform and its \"AV++\" architecture-first approach to long-lifecycle venue technology.\n", "sources": [ "https://madsystems.com/our-story.html", "https://madsystems.com/about-us.html", "https://blooloop.com/directory/mad-systems/", "https://www.avnetwork.com/features/mad-systems-blasts-off-at-the-temecula-childrens-museum", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisensing/" ] }, { "id": "main-street-design", "name": "Main Street Design", "aka": [ "Main Street Design, Inc." ], "website": "https://www.mainstdesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Waltham", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Nashville", "state": "TN" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "founded": 1991, "roles": [ "interpretive-planning", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "ABQ BioPark Zoo Asia habitat (interpretive planning/design credit, opened October 2023) won an AZA Exhibit Award; Montana Heritage Center's Dennis Washington Homeland Gallery opened December 2, 2025 with Main Street Design credited for exhibit design; company profile and current project roster maintained on mainstdesign.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Main Street Design is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interpretive planning and exhibition design firm founded in 1991, working primarily with zoos, aquariums, nature centers, and museums on interpretive master planning, content development, and exhibit design.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.mainstdesign.com/", "https://www.mainstdesign.com/blank-3", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/main-street-design-inc." ] }, { "id": "mass-design-group", "name": "MASS Design Group", "aka": [ "MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society)" ], "website": "https://modelofarchitecture.org", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Kigali", "country": "Rwanda" }, { "city": "Poughkeepsie", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Santa Fe", "state": "NM" } ], "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multiple recently completed public memorials and civic projects: The Embrace on Boston Common (2023), the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Memorial at United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND (2024), and Champion's Walk at Corey Ingram Circle, Poughkeepsie, NY (dedicated 2024); several more in progress (Swords Into Plowshares, Charlottesville, VA, expected 2025; Standing Rock Cultural Center). Won the AIA's 2022 Architecture Firm Award, its highest honor for a design practice.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "MASS Design Group (Model of Architecture Serving Society) is a Boston-based nonprofit architecture and design collective founded in 2008 by Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, known for mission-driven public architecture, memorials, and civic spaces addressing justice, memory, and public health, including the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Embrace on Boston Common. It also maintains offices in Kigali, Rwanda; Poughkeepsie, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico.\n", "sources": [ "https://modelofarchitecture.org", "https://modelofarchitecture.org/about", "https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/aia-awards/2022-aia-architecture-firm-award-mass-design-group_o", "https://www.archdaily.com/973394/aia-awards-2022-gold-medal-to-brooks-plus-scarpa-and-2022-architecture-firm-award-to-mass-design-group" ] }, { "id": "mathews-nielsen-landscape-architects", "name": "Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Already credited on 3 corpus projects (Lincoln Center Public Spaces/ Infoscape 2010, Lincoln Center Hypar Pavilion, NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library) plus a plausible additional credit on the Little Island signage/graphics project; recurring collaborator on major NYC cultural-landscape work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects is a New York-based landscape architecture firm, a recurring collaborator on major New York City cultural and civic landscape projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://dsrny.com/project/lincoln-center-public-spaces" ] }, { "id": "matter-architecture-practice", "name": "Matter Practice", "aka": [ "Matter Architecture Practice" ], "website": "https://www.matterpractice.net/", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 2002, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "No confirmed completed/announced project found since Weeksville Transforming Community (Feb 2022, ~4.5 years ago). Website currently shows a \"new site coming soon\" placeholder; Brooklyn Navy Yard tenant listing still live; co-principal Alfred Zollinger remains listed on Parsons' faculty directory — none of these constitute confirmed recent project activity.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Matter Practice is a Brooklyn, NY architecture and exhibition-design studio co-founded in 2002 by Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger, working across architecture, exhibition design, and custom fabrication.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.matterpractice.net/", "https://architizer.com/firms/matter-architecture-practice/", "https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/tenants/matter-practice/" ] }, { "id": "mayer-reed", "name": "Mayer/Reed", "aka": [ "Mayer/Reed, Inc.", "Mayer Reed" ], "website": "https://www.mayerreed.com/", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "founded": 1977, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Environmental graphics for the Washington School for the Deaf Art Gate, opened September 2024, which won a 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards Merit Award; active studio site and portfolio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Mayer/Reed is a Portland, Oregon-based interdisciplinary design firm founded in 1977 by Carol Mayer-Reed and Michael Reed, uniquely combining landscape architecture with environmental graphics and visual communications for civic, cultural, and campus clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.mayerreed.com/studio_text/about/", "https://segd.org/firms/mayer-reed-3/", "https://segd.org/projects/washington-school-for-the-deaf-art-gate/" ] }, { "id": "mccann-systems", "name": "McCann Systems", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Wallingford", "state": "CT" }, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "AV integration on the Collaborative Client Experience Center, St. Louis (2025 Commercial Integrator Award, Best Meeting Room Project); active current portfolio at mccannsystems.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "McCann Systems is a Wallingford, Connecticut-based AV integration firm working across sports venues, museums, and corporate experience centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://mccannsystems.com", "https://www.commercialintegrator.com/projects/mccann-systems-clickspring-power-collaborative-client-experience-center-in-st-louis/144051/" ] }, { "id": "metcalfe-architecture-and-design", "name": "Metcalfe Architecture & Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://metarchdesign.com/", "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "founded": 2001, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architectural design of the First Amendment Gallery at the National Constitution Center, opened September 2023; exhibit design credit on \"You – The Inside Story\" at the Maryland Science Center (2021); active firm website and AIA Philadelphia directory listing.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Metcalfe Architecture & Design is a Philadelphia-based experience-design practice founded in 2001 by Alan Metcalfe and Aaron Goldblatt, combining architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design to serve schools, museums, hospitals, and corporate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://metarchdesign.com/about", "https://directory.aiaphiladelphia.org/philadelphia/architecture-firm/metcalfe-architecture-design", "https://constitutioncenter.org/about/press-room/press-releases/national-constitution-center-opens-first-amendment-gallery" ] }, { "id": "mills-whitaker-architects", "name": "Mills Whitaker Architects", "aka": [], "website": "https://millswhitaker.com/", "hq": { "city": "Arlington", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Bridgton", "state": "ME" } ], "founded": 1997, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Current firm website with an active project portfolio; the Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation, cited in the prior basis as upcoming, has since opened (January 2, 2026).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Mills Whitaker Architects is an Arlington, Massachusetts architecture firm founded in 1997 by Donald W. Mills and Craig A. Whitaker, specializing in historic preservation, rehabilitation, and visitor and museum facilities across eastern Massachusetts and coastal New England.\n", "sources": [ "https://millswhitaker.com/", "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/mills-whitaker-architects-llc-pfvwus-pf~596632202" ] }, { "id": "mithun", "name": "Mithun", "aka": [], "website": "https://mithun.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1949, "roles": [ "architecture", "master-planning", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on University Prep ULab (2023), Tacoma Community College Center for Innovative Learning and Engagement (2025), and the UW Haring Center for Inclusive Education renovation (reopened March 2024, LEED Platinum September 2024); received the 2023 AIA National Architecture Firm Award.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Mithun is a Seattle-based architecture and design firm founded in 1949 by Omer Mithun, with additional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, known for integrated architecture, landscape architecture, and planning work on educational, civic, and cultural buildings.\n", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithun,_Inc", "https://www.aia.org/design-excellence/award-winners/architecture-firm-award-2023-mithun", "https://mithun.com/2024/03/20/uw-haring-center-reopens-to-students/" ] }, { "id": "mode-systems", "name": "MODE Systems", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.modesystems.com", "hq": { "city": "Castle Rock", "state": "CO" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2006, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music (opened June 2026); firm's own site actively lists work incl. the Cody Firearms Museum renovation (2019) and GRAMMY Museum Mississippi (2016).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "MODE Systems is a Castle Rock, Colorado-based audiovisual design and integration firm, founded in 2006, specializing in museum interactives, AV systems engineering, and installation for museums, libraries, and entertainment venues nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://modesystems.com/about-us.html", "https://www.modesystems.com/our-work.html" ] }, { "id": "moment-factory", "name": "Moment Factory", "aka": [], "website": "https://momentfactory.com", "hq": { "city": "Montréal", "province": "QC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Tokyo", "country": "Japan" }, { "city": "Paris", "country": "France" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY", "country": "US" }, { "city": "Singapore", "country": "Singapore" }, { "city": "Abu Dhabi", "country": "United Arab Emirates" }, { "city": "Riyadh", "country": "Saudi Arabia" } ], "founded": 2001, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production", "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Continuous slate of newly completed and announced North American work, including the National Geographic Museum of Exploration's opening exhibits (Washington, DC, June 2026), Edge at Hudson Yards' immersive redesign (New York, 2026), the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream's Kenneth C. Griffin Holodeck (Washington, DC, 2025), and Science World Vancouver's Animation Adventure with Molly of Denali (2025); firm states it has created 550+ projects worldwide since founding.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Moment Factory is a Montréal-headquartered multimedia studio founded in 2001 by Dominic Audet and Sakchin Bessette, designing and producing large-scale immersive and interactive experiences — projection mapping, architectural lighting, interactive media, and its proprietary X-Agora experience-runtime platform — for museums, cultural institutions, visitor attractions, and public spaces across North America and internationally.\n", "sources": [ "https://momentfactory.com/about", "https://momentfactory.com/products", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_Factory" ] }, { "id": "monadnock-media", "name": "Monadnock Media", "website": "https://monadnock.org", "hq": { "city": "Hatfield", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1980, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered the Conner Prairie Museum Experience Center immersive theater (opened April 3, 2026); credited on the Museum of Alabama's reopened galleries (Museum of Alabama/Alabama Department of Archives and History reopening, November 2025); active project portfolio maintained on monadnock.org as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Monadnock Media is a Hatfield, Massachusetts-based studio specializing exclusively in museum media master planning, design, and production — immersive theaters, interactive exhibits, and multimedia installations for history museums, presidential libraries, and cultural centers across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://monadnock.org/about/", "https://monadnock.org/", "https://monadnock.org/contact/", "https://midatlanticmuseums.org/annual-meeting/industrypartnershowcase/name/monadnock/" ] }, { "id": "mousetrappe", "name": "Mousetrappe", "aka": [ "Mousetrappe Media", "Medici Media" ], "website": "https://www.mousetrappe.com", "hq": { "city": "Burbank", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Closed July 2025 per the closure notice on the firm's own website; parent Medici XD (Nashville, formed November 2021, Mousetrappe a subsidiary from 2021) is also apparently defunct — its domain no longer resolves. Final years of activity include Expressions of America (2022) and the Freedom Theater (2023) at the National WWII Museum.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Mousetrappe was a Burbank, California media design and production studio founded in 2005 by Daren Ulmer, producing show media for museums, theme parks, and attractions, including the National WWII Museum's Beyond All Boundaries and Expressions of America and the media for Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. It operated as a subsidiary of Medici XD from 2021 and closed in July 2025.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.mousetrappe.com/", "https://blooloop.com/theme-park/in-depth/mousetrappe-media-innovation/", "https://www.inparkmagazine.com/medici-xd/", "https://blooloop.com/immersive/news/medici-xd-tony-miceli-mousetrappe-media/" ] }, { "id": "mystic-scenic", "name": "Mystic Custom Fabrication", "aka": [ "Mystic Scenic Studios", "Mystic Scenic" ], "website": "https://www.mysticcustomfabrication.com", "hq": { "city": "Norwood", "state": "MA" }, "founded": 1989, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active fabrication portfolio (broadcast, exhibits, millwork, scenic, and industrial work) maintained at mysticcustomfabrication.com as of this check; town of Norwood's TIF success-story page documents a 2004-2024 Tax Increment Financing agreement concluding June 2024 with $4,478,154 invested in the firm's Norwood facility and 97 full-time employees.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Mystic Custom Fabrication (operating for most of its history as Mystic Scenic Studios) is a Norwood, Massachusetts-based custom fabrication company founded in 1989, producing museum and exhibit displays, broadcast sets, scenic construction, and commercial millwork and architectural elements from a 100,000-square-foot production facility.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.mysticcustomfabrication.com/", "https://www.mysticcustomfabrication.com/exhibit-projects", "https://www.mysticcustomfabrication.com/newsandawards", "https://www.norwoodma.gov/government/committees_boards/economic_development_committee/tif_success_stories/mystic_scenic_studios.php" ] }, { "id": "nassal", "name": "The Nassal Company", "aka": [ "Nassal", "The Companies of Nassal" ], "website": "https://www.nassal.com", "hq": { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Glendale", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multiple recent zoo/aquarium openings independently confirmed: Australia and the Lorikeets exhibit at ABQ BioPark (Jul 2024), Dolphin Oasis at Gulfarium (Mar 2024), Explorers Cove at Georgia Aquarium (Aug 2024), and the Orlando Wetlands Visitor Center (Apr 2025); continued operation as a themed-construction/fabrication contractor for major theme park and museum clients (Disney, Universal) as of this check; acquired by general contractor PCL in May 2023, which did not end independent operations under the Nassal name. Note: the firm's own site's stated project years were independently found unreliable on multiple checked projects during the 2026-07-19 portfolio screen — status here rests on independently sourced openings, not Nassal's own dates.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "The Nassal Company is an Orlando, Florida-based themed-environment fabricator specializing in rockwork, scenic painting, architectural metals, and immersive-environment construction for theme parks, zoos, aquariums, museums, and resorts. Founded in 1984, it operates as \"The Companies of Nassal\" (including the related Lexington brand, tracked as a separate index record) and was acquired by general contractor PCL in 2023.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.nassal.com/about-us", "https://www.nassal.com/projects", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/the-companies-of-nassal" ] }, { "id": "navillus-woodworks", "name": "Navillus Woodworks", "aka": [], "website": "https://navilluswoodworks.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabrication credit on four Chicago Architecture Center exhibitions designed by Span Studio between 2022 and 2026 (\"City in a Snow Globe,\" \"Loop as Lab,\" \"Flyway City,\" and the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation exhibition); active portfolio on navilluswoodworks.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Navillus Woodworks is a Chicago-based design-build fabrication studio founded by Dan Sullivan in 2005, specializing in custom furniture, architectural millwork, CNC fabrication, and museum and artist installation fabrication.\n", "sources": [ "https://navilluswoodworks.com/about-us/" ] }, { "id": "nbbj", "name": "NBBJ", "aka": [ "Naramore, Bain, Brady & Johanson" ], "website": "https://www.nbbj.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, { "city": "Charlotte", "state": "NC" }, { "city": "Columbus", "state": "OH" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, { "city": "San Diego", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" }, { "city": "Hong Kong", "country": "Hong Kong" }, { "city": "Pune", "country": "India" }, { "city": "Shanghai", "country": "China" } ], "founded": 1943, "roles": [ "architecture", "graphics-wayfinding", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Named to TIME's 2025 TIME100 Most Influential Companies list (announced 2025) for its prefabricated healthcare building work; completed the Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine at UCSF in January 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "NBBJ is a Seattle-based global architecture, planning, and design firm founded in 1943 (originally Naramore, Bain, Brady & Johanson), with offices across North America, the UK, and Asia. In 2020 it acquired ESI Design (see the separate `esi-design` firm record), which continues to operate under its own brand as NBBJ's experience-design studio. In this index NBBJ itself is credited for architecture, environmental graphics/wayfinding, and fabrication work on experiential building and installation projects, alongside its much larger general architecture practice (healthcare, workplace, science, education, and civic/cultural work), which is out of scope here.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.nbbj.com/our-story", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBBJ", "https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289573/nbbj/", "https://www.nbbj.com/news/time-names-nbbj-most-influential-company-2025", "https://nbbj.com/news/2020/2/6/architecture-and-design-firm-nbbj-acquires-esi-design" ] }, { "id": "new-england-technology-group", "name": "New England Technology Group, Inc.", "aka": [ "NETG" ], "website": "https://netgworld.com", "hq": { "city": "Cambridge", "state": "MA" }, "founded": 1981, "roles": [ "av-integration", "media-design" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "Company website (netgworld.com) remains live with a 1996-2026 copyright footer, but its own case-study content is not dated past c. 2012 and no public evidence of a project completed in the last 3 years was found. Credited projects in this dataset (Concord Museum, 2021; Dillaway-Thomas House, c. 2019) are outside the 3-year active window as of this check. Re-confirmed 2026-07-19 via a full portfolio screen: ~20 additional project claims on the firm's own site could not be independently corroborated by any second source, so none added; the conclusion of no recent activity stands.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "New England Technology Group is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based multimedia design and AV integration firm founded in 1981, producing interactive exhibits, show-control systems, and media installations for museums, national parks, and visitor centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://netgworld.com/", "https://netgworld.com/contact/" ] }, { "id": "ngx-interactive", "name": "NGX Interactive", "aka": [], "website": "https://ngxinteractive.com", "hq": { "city": "Vancouver", "province": "BC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited media-design firm on the Royal Ontario Museum's Toy Soldiers gallery (2019), Autodesk Gallery 2.0 (2021), and \"Hamilton: The Exhibition\" (2019, world premiere pavilion). Firm's own site is live and current as of 2026, describing itself as an active creative technology studio with 1,000+ delivered media experiences.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "NGX Interactive is a Vancouver, BC-based creative technology studio producing interactive media and digital exhibits for museums, brand experiences, and visitor attractions — blending storytelling, physical space, and technology. The firm reports over 25 years of experience and 1,000+ delivered media experiences across 11 countries.\n", "sources": [ "https://ngxinteractive.com/about/", "https://www.ngxinteractive.com/" ] }, { "id": "northern-light-productions", "name": "Northern Light Productions", "aka": [], "website": "https://nlprod.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1982, "roles": [ "content-production", "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Northern Light Productions is credited for VR and 180-degree film production at the New Jersey Hall of Fame Entertainment and Learning Center, which opened to the public in June 2024.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Northern Light Productions is a documentary film and museum media production company based in Boston, founded in 1982 by filmmaker Bestor Cram. The company produces orientation films, immersive theater experiences, projection mapping, and interactive media and software for museums, visitor centers, and cultural institutions across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://nlprod.com/", "https://nlprod.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Light_Productions", "https://www.cgpartnersllc.com/projects/the-new-jersey-hall-of-fame-entertainment-and-learning-center/" ] }, { "id": "northwest-sign-and-design", "name": "Northwest Sign & Design", "aka": [ "NW Signs" ], "website": "https://www.nwsigns.com", "hq": { "city": "Monroe", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "fabrication", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as fabricator (as \"Northwest Sign & Design\" and its shorthand \"NW Signs\") on five Studio Matthews projects spanning 2022-2026 (Founders Hall, Urban Interpretation - Why a Meadow?, KING FM, ULab, Ballast Island); company website actively maintained.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Northwest Sign & Design is a sign design and fabrication company based in Monroe, Washington, producing custom electric signage, architectural signage, and environmental graphics for businesses, architects, and institutions in the Seattle area.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.nwsigns.com/who-we-are", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/founders-hall/", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/ballast-island/" ] }, { "id": "olin", "name": "OLIN", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Philadelphia", "state": "PA" }, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Landscape architecture on Dilworth Park (Philadelphia, opened 2014); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "OLIN is a Philadelphia-based landscape architecture and urban design firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://theolinstudio.com/dilworth-park/" ] }, { "id": "olson-kundig", "name": "Olson Kundig", "aka": [ "Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects", "Olson Sundberg Architects", "Olson/Walker Architects" ], "website": "https://olsonkundig.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York City", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" } ], "founded": 1966, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK (2022); named to Architectural Digest's AD100 list for the 11th consecutive year (2024); active project portfolio and firm news published on olsonkundig.com through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Olson Kundig is a Seattle-based architecture firm founded by Jim Olson in 1966, with additional offices in New York City and Chicago. Beyond its broader residential and commercial practice, the firm is credited as architect of record on numerous museums, visitor centers, and cultural buildings across the United States, frequently designing exhibit spaces and interior architecture in addition to the building envelope.\n", "sources": [ "https://olsonkundig.com/about-us/", "https://olsonkundig.com/our-history/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olson_Kundig" ] }, { "id": "omsi-creative-services", "name": "OMSI Creative Services", "aka": [ "OMSI Exhibit Shop", "OMSI Exhibits" ], "website": "https://omsi.edu/creative-services/", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Live commissionable design-build and consulting service pages; Wild Creativity developed and produced 2023; Animationland opened at the National Children's Museum January 2025 on its ongoing tour; six-exhibit traveling rental roster currently offered.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "OMSI Creative Services is the exhibit design and fabrication studio of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon, operating one of the largest museum-based production shops in North America for more than 35 years. It develops, designs, and fabricates traveling exhibitions that debut at OMSI and tour internationally, and offers design-build and consulting services to outside institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://omsi.edu/creative-services/", "https://omsi.edu/for-museum-professionals/", "https://omsi.edu/articles/behind-the-scenes-at-the-omsi-exhibit-shop/", "https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2014/10/the-mad-science-behind-omsis-greatest-exhibits-october-2014" ] }, { "id": "pacific-studio", "name": "Pacific Studio", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "A full portfolio screen (2026-07-19) found the corpus already carried 15 Pacific Studio credits, not the 4 in the prior basis, including a fabrication credit on the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum/Plaza (Palm Springs, CA), independently dated to November 2023 via both SEGD's own project page and RLMG's own project page — inside the 3-year active window. Conflicting signals exist: the company's own domain (pacificstudio.com) resolves to a parked for-sale listing, and unverified search summaries suggest a Crunchbase \"permanently closed\" tag and a Glassdoor review titled \"the Company is now closed\" (neither independently confirmed with a date). On balance, kept `active` on the dated, independently-sourced 2023 credit, but the closure signals are real enough to revisit if a future check finds nothing more recent.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Pacific Studio is a Seattle-based design and fabrication company producing museum-quality exhibits, casework, and interactives for museums and visitor centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://studiomatthews.com/project/bezos-center-for-innovation/", "https://studiomatthews.com/project/fred-hutch-visitor-center/", "https://www.bbb.org/us/wa/seattle/profile/design-contractor/pacific-studio-inc-1296-22460487", "https://segd.org/projects/agua-caliente-cultural-plaza/", "https://rlmg.com/work/agua-caliente-cultural-museum" ] }, { "id": "parz-designs", "name": "Parz Designs", "website": "https://parzdesigns.com", "hq": { "city": "Falls Church", "state": "VA" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited by Isometric Studio as exhibition fabricator on \"Queer Justice: 50 Years of Lambda Legal and LGBTQ+ Rights\" (opened November 2023, touring through 2024) and the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House and Museum permanent exhibition (2023); parzdesigns.com is a live, actively maintained business site. Independently, the firm has received Houzz's \"Best of Houzz — Service\" award in most years from 2014 through 2026, evidencing ongoing residential-carpentry business activity into 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Parz Designs is a family-owned custom woodworking and carpentry company based in Falls Church, Virginia, serving the Washington, D.C. metro area; it has been credited by Isometric Studio as exhibition fabricator on three museum installations between 2019 and 2023.\n", "sources": [ "https://parzdesigns.com/", "https://parzdesigns.com/gallery/", "https://isometricstudio.com/who-we-are-exhibition", "https://isometricstudio.com/juanita-craft-civil-rights-house", "https://isometricstudio.com/queer-justice", "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/woodworkers-and-carpenters/parz-designs-pfvwus-pf~940042551" ] }, { "id": "pbdw-architects", "name": "PBDW Architects", "aka": [ "Platt Byard Dovell White Architects", "Platt Byard Dovell Architects" ], "website": "https://www.pbdw.com/", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 1965, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture credit on the Palace Theatre Restoration (TSX Broadway), fully reopened November 2024, and executive/associate architect on Powerhouse Arts (Brooklyn, 2023, with Herzog & de Meuron); active firm marking its 60th anniversary (traced to Charles Platt's 1965 practice).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "PBDW Architects is a New York City architecture firm tracing its founding to Charles Platt's 1965 practice, formally merged into Platt Byard Dovell White Architects in 2001, known for cultural, preservation, and institutional work including New-York Historical Society galleries and multiple Broadway theater restorations.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.pbdw.com/profile", "https://www.pbdw60.com/", "https://www.fmsp.com/projects/palace-theatre/" ] }, { "id": "pelli-clarke-and-partners", "name": "Pelli Clarke & Partners", "aka": [ "Cesar Pelli & Associates", "Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects" ], "hq": { "city": "New Haven", "state": "CT" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture on Dassai Blue Sake Brewery (Hyde Park, NY, opened 2023); active per its own site as of verification date. Earlier work (Connecticut Science Center 2009, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 2006) is credited under the firm's prior names, Cesar Pelli & Associates (pre-2005) and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (2005-2019, renamed again after Cesar Pelli's 2019 death).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Pelli Clarke & Partners is a New Haven, Connecticut-based architecture firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.pcparch.com/" ] }, { "id": "pentagram", "name": "Pentagram", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.pentagram.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "London", "country": "UK" }, { "city": "Austin", "state": "TX" }, { "city": "Berlin", "country": "Germany" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1972, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Dataland (Los Angeles) and Green-Wood Cemetery's Green-House visitor center (Brooklyn) both credit Pentagram graphics/identity work completed in 2026; the Obama Presidential Center's \"Words of Hope\" facade typography opened June 2026; Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection at the Harry Ransom Center opened September 2025; active studio pages and current work listed on pentagram.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Pentagram is a multi-disciplinary, partner-owned design studio founded in 1972, with offices in New York, London, Austin, Berlin, and San Francisco. Within the experiential design space it is credited for exhibition design, environmental graphics, and wayfinding programs at museums, libraries, and cultural institutions, alongside its broader commercial practice in brand identity, digital, and product design.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.pentagram.com/about", "https://www.pentagram.com/wayfinding", "https://www.pentagram.com/exhibitions" ] }, { "id": "peter-hyde-design", "name": "Peter Hyde Design", "aka": [ "PHD" ], "website": "https://www.peterhydedesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 2012, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active studio website listing current services and full project roster as of this check, including a December 2024 grand-reopening project (Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame expansion) and a 2024-completed exhibit (International Spy Museum's \"Spying Launched a Nation\").\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Peter Hyde Design is a Brooklyn, New York-based exhibit and experience design studio, founded in 2012 by Peter Hyde, providing master planning, concept design, exhibit design, and interpretive design services for museums, science centers, visitor centers, sports and golf heritage venues, healthcare institutions, and institutional clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.peterhydedesign.com/", "https://www.peterhydedesign.com/about/", "https://www.peterhydedesign.com/all-projects/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/peter-hyde-design" ] }, { "id": "pgav-destinations", "name": "PGAV Destinations", "aka": [ "PGAV", "Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets" ], "website": "https://pgavdestinations.com", "hq": { "city": "St. Louis", "state": "MO" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "founded": 1965, "roles": [ "master-planning", "architecture", "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind (EPCOT, opened 2022) and SeaWorld Yas Island Abu Dhabi (opened 2023) both won industry design awards listed on the firm's own awards page; active, regularly updated project portfolio at pgavdestinations.com/our-work/ as of the verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "PGAV Destinations is the destination-attraction design practice of PGAV (Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets), a St. Louis, Missouri-based architecture and planning firm founded in 1965. PGAV Destinations provides master planning, architecture, and exhibit/experience design for zoos, aquariums, museums, theme parks, and brand-based destinations worldwide, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida.\n", "sources": [ "https://pgavdestinations.com/about/", "https://www.inparkmagazine.com/pgav-and-the-art-of-destinology/", "https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2024-02-14/a-st-louis-company-designs-destinations-at-home-and-worldwide", "https://pgavdestinations.com/about/awards/" ] }, { "id": "pja-architects", "name": "PJA Architects & Landscape", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Milwaukee", "state": "WI" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Co-designer with HGA on the Milwaukee County Zoo's \"Adventure Africa\" African Elephant Exhibit (opened 2019); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "PJA Architects & Landscape is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based architecture and landscape architecture firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://hga.com/projects/milwaukee-county-zoo-african-elephant-exhibit/" ] }, { "id": "plus-and-greater-than", "name": "Plus And Greater Than", "aka": [ "+&>" ], "website": "https://www.plusandgreaterthan.com", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Building Stories, the firm's long-term exhibition for the National Building Museum, opened Jan 2024 and remains on view (10-year run); the project received a Merit Award at the 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Plus And Greater Than (+&>) is a Portland, OR partnership-driven exhibition and experience design studio, co-founded by Traci Sym and Daniel Meyers, working across exhibition design, interactive media, and interpretive planning for museums and cultural institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.plusandgreaterthan.com/studio", "https://www.plusandgreaterthan.com/projects/building-stories", "https://nbm.org/building-stories-exhibition-inspired-by-beloved-childrens-books-opens-at-the-national-building-museum/" ] }, { "id": "polk-stanley-wilcox-architects", "name": "Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects", "aka": [ "Polk Shannon Stanley Architects" ], "website": "https://www.polkstanleywilcox.com", "hq": { "city": "Little Rock", "state": "AR" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Fayetteville", "state": "AR" } ], "founded": 1977, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Associate architect on the Robinson Center Performing Arts Complex renovation (Little Rock, 2016/2017) and the William J. Clinton Presidential Center joint venture; firm's own site lists an active, 50-person practice with 800+ completed commissions and ongoing project news as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects is a Little Rock, Arkansas-based architecture firm founded in 1977 (originally Polk Shannon Stanley Architects), with a second office in Fayetteville, AR. The firm works broadly across institutional, cultural, and higher-education architecture and frequently serves as associate architect or architect of record alongside out-of-state design architects on Arkansas cultural projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.polkstanleywilcox.com/our-firm/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_Stanley_Wilcox_Architects" ] }, { "id": "populous", "name": "Populous", "aka": [], "website": "https://populous.com", "hq": { "city": "Kansas City", "state": "MO" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1983, "roles": [ "architecture", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Synovus Park (Columbus, GA) completed and opened 2025; multiple other active US stadium and campus projects (Allianz Field, Baylor, Homefield KC, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) in the trailing several years; firm relocated its Americas headquarters to a new Kansas City tower in 2024.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Populous is a Kansas City-based global architecture firm founded in 1983, best known for sports and entertainment venue design, with an in-house wayfinding and environmental graphics discipline that designs signage systems for the stadiums and arenas it plans and builds.\n", "sources": [ "https://populous.com/about", "https://populous.com/disciplines/wayfinding", "https://www.costar.com/article/254640561/architecture-firm-populous-to-move-headquarters-to-new-kansas-city-tower", "https://populous.com/projects/synovus-park" ] }, { "id": "potion-design", "name": "Potion Design", "aka": [ "Potion" ], "website": "https://www.potiondesign.com/about-us/", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Acquired by Hyperquake, announced May 2, 2024; per Hyperquake's own account of the merger, \"the Potion brand name is no longer used independently\" and its work is now folded into Hyperquake's Experiences team. No independent Potion-branded activity found after the acquisition.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Potion Design was a New York interactive design and media studio founded in 2005 by MIT Media Lab alumni Jared Schiffman and Phillip Tiongson, producing interactive exhibits, kiosks, and apps for museums including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Rubin Museum, the National WWI Museum and Memorial, and the New York Public Library. In May 2024 it was acquired by the experience-design agency Hyperquake and its brand was absorbed into Hyperquake's operations.\n", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potion_Design", "https://www.hyperquake.com/potion-merger", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/independent-creative-strategy-branding-and-experience-design-agency-hyperquake-acquires-award-winning-design-and-technology-studio-potion-302134733.html" ] }, { "id": "prime-access-consulting", "name": "Prime Access Consulting", "aka": [ "PAC" ], "website": "https://pac.bz", "hq": { "city": "Raleigh", "state": "NC" }, "founded": 2011, "roles": [ "accessibility-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed SFMOMA's \"Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10\" accessibility system (opened April 2026) and the Obama Presidential Center's inclusive design program (opened June 2026); ongoing museum and digital accessibility engagements listed on the firm's own projects page.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Prime Access Consulting (PAC) is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based accessibility and inclusive-design consultancy, founded in 2011, led by Sina Bahram and Corey Timpson. It works across museum exhibitions, capital building projects, and digital products, developing multi-sensory accessibility systems (tactile wayfinding, audio/visual description, ASL and touch-object programs) and accessibility interface standards such as the Universal Access Point/Universal Keypad (Canadian Museum for Human Rights) and its successor the Universal Experience Point (Obama Presidential Center).\n", "sources": [ "https://pac.bz", "https://pac.bz/about/", "https://pac.bz/projects/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacbz" ] }, { "id": "proun-design", "name": "Proun Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.proundesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Somerville", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Three independently-corroborated 2026 openings: Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation (Jan 2, 2026, via thecantoncitizen.com), the Lewis Museum's Kid Zone (early 2026, via foxbaltimore.com), and the Marblehead Museum's Lee Mansion Slave Quarters exhibit (June 1, 2026, via marbleheadcurrent.org). Firm's portfolio site actively maintained as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Proun Design is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based interpretive exhibit design firm founded in 1999, working on museum, visitor center, cultural history, and science-museum exhibits, with additional work for corporate and institutional clients across the northeastern and southeastern United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.proundesign.com/", "https://www.proundesign.com/about" ] }, { "id": "pure-and-applied", "name": "Pure+Applied", "aka": [ "Pure and Applied Studio", "P+A" ], "website": "https://pureandappliedstudio.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "graphics-wayfinding", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History at NYPL (2024) and Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History at the Heckscher Museum of Art (opened September 2025); firm portfolio site actively listing projects as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Pure+Applied is a New York City multidisciplinary design studio, founded by Urshula Barbour and Paul Carlos, working in exhibition design, environmental graphics, wayfinding, and publication design for museums, libraries, and cultural and civic institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://pureandappliedstudio.com/", "https://pureandappliedstudio.com/about", "https://pureandappliedstudio.com/projects" ] }, { "id": "ralph-appelbaum-associates", "name": "Ralph Appelbaum Associates", "aka": [ "RAA" ], "website": "https://raai.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "London", "country": "UK" }, { "city": "Berlin", "country": "Germany" }, { "city": "Beijing", "country": "China" } ], "founded": 1978, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as exhibition designer on the International African American Museum (opened 2023) and the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at AMNH (opened 2023), both cited as 2024 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards honorees; ongoing project portfolio on firm website as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ralph Appelbaum Associates is a New York-based museum exhibition design and interpretive planning firm founded in 1978 by Ralph Appelbaum, with additional offices in London, Berlin, and Beijing; it describes itself as the world's largest practice dedicated to the planning and design of museums and narrative environments.\n", "sources": [ "https://raai.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Appelbaum_Associates", "https://raai.com/project/international-african-american-museum/" ] }, { "id": "ravenswood-studio", "name": "Ravenswood Studio", "website": "https://ravenswoodstudio.com", "hq": { "city": "Lincolnwood", "state": "IL" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabricated \"GAME ON! Science, Sports & Play\" at the California Science Center (opened May 2025); fabricated the National Music Museum reinstallation (Vermillion, SD, phase 1 opened August 2023) and the Harley-Davidson Museum Experience Gallery (opened July 2022); active project portfolio and 2025-dated site updates on ravenswoodstudio.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Ravenswood Studio is a Chicago-area (Lincolnwood, IL) custom fabrication company producing exhibits, interactives, sets, and scenery for museums, cultural institutions, and corporate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://ravenswoodstudio.com/", "https://ravenswoodstudio.com/about-us/", "https://californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/game-on-science-sports-play" ] }, { "id": "reich-petch", "name": "Reich+Petch", "aka": [ "Reich & Petch Design International", "R&P Design", "Reich + Petch Architects Inc." ], "website": "https://designrp.com", "hq": { "city": "Toronto", "state": "ON", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1987, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design", "master-planning", "interpretive-planning", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Actively updated project portfolio at designrp.com (60+ projects listed); Massey Hall Exhibits (2022), TD Brand Experience (2024), and the NCC River House Riverkeeper Learning Lab (2025) confirm current activity; ongoing LinkedIn company page activity. (The Canadian Museum for Gender and Sexual Diversity, previously cited here, was only ever a 2018 conceptual/feasibility masterplan; the sponsoring organization dissolved in bankruptcy October 2024 and the museum was never built — removed as status evidence.)\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Reich+Petch (also operating as R&P Design; formerly Reich & Petch Design International) is a multidisciplinary architecture and exhibit-design firm founded in 1987 by Tony Reich and Whit Petch, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with a New York, New York office, working with museums, cultural institutions, and attractions across North America and internationally.\n", "sources": [ "https://designrp.com/", "https://designrp.com/studio/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/reich-petch" ] }, { "id": "renfro-design-group", "name": "Renfro Design Group", "aka": [ "RDG" ], "website": "https://www.renfrodesign.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 1998, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the American Museum of Natural History's Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation (2023); active firm website with a current projects listing as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Renfro Design Group is a New York City-based architectural lighting design firm founded in 1998 by Richard Renfro. It is a repeat lighting designer on major New York museum projects, including AMNH's Richard Gilder Center and MoMA's 2019 expansion.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.renfrodesign.com/", "https://www.renfrodesign.com/about", "https://www.renfrodesign.com/page/richard-renfro" ] }, { "id": "rlmg", "name": "RLMG", "aka": [ "Richard Lewis Media Group" ], "website": "https://www.rlmg.com", "hq": { "city": "Watertown", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Montana Heritage Center's Dennis Washington Homeland Gallery opened with RLMG-produced media (Dec 2025); Museum of Utah and Collection Facility opened with RLMG video production direction (June 2026); the National WWI Museum and Memorial project (with RLMG media) was named \"Immersive & Experimental Environment of the Year\" at the 2026 Digital Signage Awards (Integrated Systems Europe).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "RLMG is a Watertown, Massachusetts digital experience design studio founded by Richard Lewis, producing interactive media, software, and linear media for museums, science centers, and visitor centers nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.rlmg.com/about", "https://segd.org/firms/richard-lewis-media-group/", "https://blooloop.com/rlmg/" ] }, { "id": "robert-a-m-stern-architects", "name": "Robert A.M. Stern Architects", "aka": [ "RAMSA" ], "website": "https://www.ramsa.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1969, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architect of record on the Museum of the American Revolution (opened 2017, Philadelphia) and the George W. Bush Presidential Center (opened 2013, Dallas); per ENR's own 2025 obituary coverage, RAMSA ranks No. 285 on ENR's Top 500 Design Firms list with about 300 employees and $82.7M in 2024 design revenue. Founder Robert A.M. Stern died November 27, 2025; the firm issued a statement affirming it remains \"committed to carrying forth his ideals\" and continues practicing under his name.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) is a New York-based architecture firm founded in 1969 by Robert A.M. Stern, known for classically-inflected institutional and residential work including university buildings, presidential libraries, and museums such as the Museum of the American Revolution and the George W. Bush Presidential Center.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.ramsa.com/about-us", "https://www.enr.com/articles/62098-obituary-robert-am-stern-86-multi-faceted-nyc-architect-firm-leader-and-academic", "https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/museum-american-revolution", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12811-museum-of-the-american-revolution-by-robert-am-stern-architects", "https://theprdgroup.com/project/george-w-bush-presidential-center/" ] }, { "id": "rockwell-group", "name": "Rockwell Group", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.rockwellgroup.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on Edge, the observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards (opened 2020, interior/experience design via its LAB at Rockwell Group studio), and on exhibit design for Illuminarium Atlanta (2021), The Museum of Broadway (2022), the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (2014), and The Walt Disney Family Museum (2009); active firm website and ongoing press coverage.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Rockwell Group is a New York City-based architecture and experience design firm founded in 1984 by David Rockwell, working across hospitality, cultural, and immersive-entertainment projects; its LAB at Rockwell Group studio focuses on experience and exhibit design.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.rockwellgroup.com/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockwell", "https://www.rockwellgroup.com/projects/edge" ] }, { "id": "romeantics", "name": "RomeAntics", "aka": [], "website": "https://romeantics.com/", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multimedia design credit on World of Coca-Cola's Vault of the Secret Formula (2011) and av-integration on the Museum at Bethel Woods (2008); active portfolio also lists more recent work including the National Museum of African American Music and the National Museum of American Jewish History.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "RomeAntics is a New York-based multimedia and experiential design studio providing creative, management, and technical direction for museum exhibits, corporate installations, events, and public art; the studio's own materials describe roughly two decades of experiential-project work.\n", "sources": [ "https://romeantics.com/", "https://romeantics.com/about-3/" ] }, { "id": "roto", "name": "Roto", "aka": [ "Roto Group LLC" ], "website": "https://roto.com", "hq": { "city": "Dublin", "state": "OH" }, "founded": 2004, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Opened its own venue, Prototype: The Experimental Museum, in downtown Columbus, Ohio, November 1, 2025 (covered by blooloop, 614NOW, and Spectrum News); active company website and portfolio as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Roto is a Dublin, Ohio-based exhibition design-build firm founded in 2004, offering master planning through fabrication and installation for museums, science centers, children's museums, zoos, aquariums, and immersive-media and brand-experience projects.\n", "sources": [ "https://roto.com/", "https://blooloop.com/roto-opens-prototype/", "https://columbusunderground.com/dublins-roto-quietly-recruiting-the-next-generation-of-creative-engineers-ca1/" ] }, { "id": "scape", "name": "SCAPE", "aka": [ "SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC", "SCAPE Studio" ], "website": "https://www.scapestudio.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 2005, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lead landscape architect on Tom Lee Park in Memphis (opened 2023) and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts renovation (2023); named landscape architect on the announced MOSH Genesis project in Jacksonville (expected 2028). Firm's own site describes an active, 80+ person practice with offices in three cities as of 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "SCAPE is a New York-headquartered landscape architecture and urban design studio founded in 2005 by Kate Orff, with additional offices in New Orleans and San Francisco. The firm focuses on climate-resilient, ecologically engaged public landscapes, waterfronts, and parks, and has received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (2019) and the Obel Award (2023).\n", "sources": [ "https://www.scapestudio.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff" ] }, { "id": "schuler-shook", "name": "Schuler Shook", "aka": [], "website": "https://schulershook.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN" }, { "city": "Dallas", "state": "TX" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1986, "roles": [ "lighting-design", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Firm portfolio site actively listing recent projects through 2025-2026 (e.g. National Medal of Honor Museum, opened 2025; Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, 2021; Railyard Park, 2021; Lynn Wyatt Square for the Performing Arts, 2024), 237 projects listed on schulershook.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Schuler Shook is a Chicago-based theatre planning, architectural lighting design, and audiovisual design firm, founded in 1986, with additional offices in Minneapolis, Dallas, San Francisco, and New York, working on performing arts centers, museums, libraries, and public spaces nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://schulershook.com/about", "https://schulershook.com/projects" ] }, { "id": "second-story", "name": "Second Story", "aka": [ "Second Story Interactive Studios" ], "website": "https://www.razorfish.com/second-story", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" } ], "founded": 1994, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "inactive", "status_basis": "Founded 1994; acquired by SapientNitro in 2012 and became part of Publicis following Publicis's 2015 acquisition of Sapient. In 2020 Publicis realigned Second Story's talent, capabilities, and work into Razorfish (Adweek, 2020-07). As of this check, secondstory.com redirects to razorfish.com/second-story/, and current Razorfish case-study pages credit work to \"Second Story, part of Razorfish\" rather than to Second Story as a standalone firm — evidence of a fully absorbed sub-brand/team rather than an independently operating studio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Second Story was a Portland, Oregon interactive design studio founded in 1994 by Brad Johnson and Julie Beeler, known for narrative-driven interactive media and exhibit installations for museums, cultural institutions, and brands. Acquired by SapientNitro in 2012 and folded into Publicis Sapient in 2015, its talent and work were realigned into Razorfish in 2020, where its projects are now credited as \"Second Story, part of Razorfish.\"\n", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Story_Interactive_Studios", "https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/publicis-groupe-agencies-including-digitas-publicis-sapient-went-through-layoffs-this-week/", "https://www.razorfish.com/work/world-of-coca-cola/" ] }, { "id": "sh-acoustics", "name": "SH Acoustics", "aka": [], "website": "https://shacoustics.com", "hq": { "city": "Stamford", "state": "CT" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "acoustics" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Currently credited on multiple in-progress/recently-opened projects: Ellis Island Museum Reimagined (expected 2026), Obama Presidential Center Museum (opened June 2026); active portfolio pages maintained on the firm's own site as of 2026-07.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "SH Acoustics is a Stamford, Connecticut-based acoustics and audio design consultancy led by CEO Steve Haas, working across residential, commercial, and museum/exhibit projects; its museum practice spans acoustic design, audio-delivery-system design, and calibration for exhibit galleries, theaters, and multimedia installations at institutions including the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of the Bible, the Statue of Liberty Museum, and the Obama Presidential Center Museum.\n", "sources": [ "https://shacoustics.com/", "https://shacoustics.com/museums-about/", "https://shacoustics.com/contact-us/", "https://shacoustics.com/museums-portfolio/" ] }, { "id": "shen-milsom-and-wilke", "name": "Shen Milsom & Wilke", "aka": [ "SM&W" ], "website": "https://www.smwllc.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Princeton", "state": "NJ" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Denver", "state": "CO" } ], "founded": 1986, "roles": [ "av-integration", "acoustics", "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "AV-integration credit on the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum (2007), and acoustics/AV credits on the Natural History Museum of Utah's Rio Tinto Center (2011) and the Tennessee State Museum (2018). Firm's own site is live and current as of 2026, describing an international staff of 230+ across multiple US offices and continuing acoustics/AV/IT/security/medical-equipment planning work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Shen Milsom & Wilke (SM&W) is a New York City-founded (1986) acoustics, audiovisual, and technology-design consultancy with offices across the US and internationally, providing acoustical, AV, IT, security, and medical-equipment-planning design services for cultural, corporate, healthcare, and performing-arts clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.smwllc.com/about/", "https://www.smwllc.com/about/a-history-of-innovation/" ] }, { "id": "sitara-systems", "name": "Sitara Systems", "aka": [], "website": "https://sitara.systems", "hq": { "city": "Las Vegas", "state": "NV" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "media-design", "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "New Museum's \"New Humans: Memories of the Future\" and Genesis House's \"Manifesting Marilyn\" both on view/ran 2026; Cleveland Museum of Art's ArtLens Reimagined opens July 28, 2026 (per CMA's own site); Dana-Farber NFC upgrade independently reported Feb 2022 (BusinessWire, SEGD).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Sitara Systems is a Las Vegas-based spatial human-computer-interaction studio designing custom software, real-time media systems, and systems-architecture consulting for museums, cultural institutions, and brand experience centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.sitara.systems/" ] }, { "id": "skidmore-owings-and-merrill", "name": "Skidmore, Owings & Merrill", "aka": [ "SOM" ], "website": "https://www.som.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, { "city": "Denver", "state": "CO" }, { "city": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" }, { "city": "Hong Kong", "country": "Hong Kong" }, { "city": "Shanghai", "country": "China" }, { "city": "Shenzhen", "country": "China" }, { "city": "Mumbai", "country": "India" }, { "city": "Abu Dhabi", "country": "United Arab Emirates" } ], "founded": 1936, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed the Cotchett Law Center at UC Law San Francisco (2020) and the Marin Welcome Center for the SF-Marin Food Bank (2020) with in-house graphics and identity work by its Graphics and Brand Studio; active project portfolio and press presence as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is a global architecture, engineering, and urban design firm founded in Chicago in 1936, with offices across the US and internationally. In this index SOM is credited for architecture and, through its in-house Graphics and Brand Studio, environmental graphics, wayfinding, and exhibit design on institutional and civic projects, alongside its much larger general architecture practice, which is out of scope here.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.som.com/about/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOM_(architectural_firm)", "https://www.som.com/expertise/graphics-brand/" ] }, { "id": "skylab-architecture", "name": "Skylab Architecture", "aka": [], "website": "https://skylabarchitecture.com", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lenses on the Sky (OMSI, 2024) and The Artisans Cup (2015) both credit the firm; active studio website with current project listings as of 2026-07.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Skylab Architecture is a Portland, OR architecture and interior design studio founded in 1999 by Jeff Kovel and Brent Grubb, working across architecture, interior design, branded environments, and exhibition design.\n", "sources": [ "https://skylabarchitecture.com/", "https://skylabarchitecture.com/studio/", "https://skylabarchitecture.com/work/artisanscup/" ] }, { "id": "smithgroup", "name": "SmithGroup", "aka": [ "SmithGroupJJR" ], "website": "https://www.smithgroup.com", "hq": { "city": "Detroit", "state": "MI" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1853, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Ranked the largest museum and gallery architecture firm in the US for 2023 (smithgroup.com); recently completed and ongoing museum projects include the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum (Washington, DC, opened 2023), the Baltimore Museum of Art's \"The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century\" (2023, exhibition design credit), the Wisconsin History Center (design unveiled 2023, under construction), and a VMFA expansion (selected 2023, per blooloop); active news page through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "SmithGroup is a Detroit-based, employee-owned architecture, engineering, and planning firm founded in 1853 (as Sheldon Smith's practice; renamed SmithGroupJJR 2011-2018 after merging with landscape-architecture firm Johnson, Johnson & Roy, then simplified back to SmithGroup). Its Cultural market practice provides architecture, interior design, and exhibit design for museums and cultural institutions nationally.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.smithgroup.com/our-work/markets/cultural", "https://www.smithgroup.com/news/2024/smithgroup-is-nations-largest-museum-design-firm-of-2023", "https://www.smithgroup.com/news/2023/smithgroup-celebrates-opening-of-hip-hop-exhibition-at-baltimore-museum-of-art", "https://www.achrnews.com/articles/159423-smithgroup-announces-name-change-rebranding", "https://blooloop.com/museum/news/virginia-museum-fine-arts-smithgroup-expansion/" ] }, { "id": "snohetta", "name": "Snøhetta", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.snohetta.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Oslo", "country": "Norway" }, { "city": "Innsbruck", "country": "Austria" }, { "city": "Paris", "country": "France" }, { "city": "Hong Kong", "country": "Hong Kong" }, { "city": "Shenzhen", "country": "China" }, { "city": "Melbourne", "country": "Australia" } ], "founded": 1989, "roles": [ "architecture", "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Continuous string of completed US cultural and civic buildings since its first US project (Wolfe Center for the Arts, Bowling Green State University, 2012): most recently the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (Medora, ND, opened July 4, 2026) and the Dartmouth Hopkins Center for the Arts expansion (Hanover, NH, reopened October 2025); its Brooklyn, NY studio (established 2004 in Manhattan, relocated to DUMBO, Brooklyn in 2025) employs roughly 70 of the firm's ~250 staff.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Snøhetta is an architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design firm founded in Oslo, Norway in 1989. Its global headquarters remains in Oslo, but the firm has maintained a US studio in New York since 2004 (now based in Brooklyn) that has independently led a continuous body of US museum, library, and cultural-institution work for over a decade, credited in this index for architecture and landscape architecture on US cultural and civic buildings — including the SFMOMA expansion, the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.snohetta.com/about", "https://www.snohetta.com/studios", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn%C3%B8hetta_(company)", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16257-employees-at-snohettas-new-york-office-announce-intent-to-organize", "https://www.dezeen.com/2023/05/11/snohetta-union-new-york/" ] }, { "id": "solid-light", "name": "Solid Light", "website": "https://solidlight-inc.com", "hq": { "city": "Louisville", "state": "KY" }, "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Yakyu | Baseball exhibit opened at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (2025); The Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind in progress (expected 2026); National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Interpretive Center announced (expected 2026); internal ownership succession completed June 2024 with founder Cynthia Torp transitioning to Board Chair.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Solid Light is a Louisville, Kentucky-based museum design-build studio, founded in 1999 by Cynthia Torp, that keeps exhibit design, interactive media, film/content production, and fabrication in-house on projects including distillery visitor experiences, history and civil rights museums, and interpretive centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://solidlight-inc.com/about/", "https://solidlight-inc.com/the-founding-of-solid-light/", "https://solidlight-inc.com/solid-light-inc-completes-strategic-succession", "https://baseballhall.org/news/yakyu-baseball-exhibit-debuts-at-museum" ] }, { "id": "solomon-group", "name": "Solomon Group", "aka": [], "website": "https://solomongroup.com", "hq": { "city": "New Orleans", "state": "LA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Elmwood", "state": "LA" } ], "founded": 2009, "roles": [ "fabrication", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Beverage Lab exhibit for World of Coca-Cola opened November 2024; homepage and news section list ongoing 2025 work (e.g. Event Marketer IT List 2025 recognition) as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Solomon Group is a New Orleans-based experiential production company founded in 2009, providing exhibit fabrication and AV systems integration for museums and themed environments alongside its live-events production business.\n", "sources": [ "https://solomongroup.com/", "https://solomongroup.com/about", "https://solomongroup.com/projects/world-of-coca-cola-beverage-lab" ] }, { "id": "solotech", "name": "Solotech", "aka": [], "website": "https://solotech.com", "hq": { "city": "Montreal", "state": "QC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1977, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "AV systems integration on the Jacobs Music Center renovation (San Diego, reopened September 2024), the Niagara Parks Power Station's \"Currents\" exhibition (2021), and La Maison du Kamouraska's 360-degree projection dome (2019); large, actively operating global AV company with multiple current North American offices.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Solotech is a Montreal, Quebec audiovisual and entertainment-technology company founded in 1977, providing systems integration, live-production, and permanent-install AV, lighting, and video services. It is credited on this index for AV integration on museum, performing-arts, and visitor-attraction projects across the US and Canada.\n", "sources": [ "https://solotech.com/about-us/history/", "https://solotech.com/contact-us/montreal/", "https://www.solotech.com/our-work/maison-du-kamouraska-360-projection-dome/", "https://hga.com/hgas-redesign-of-san-diego-symphonys-jacobs-music-center-elevates-performance-experiences-for-artists-and-patrons/" ] }, { "id": "southern-custom-exhibits", "name": "Southern Custom Exhibits", "aka": [ "Southern Custom Exhibits of Alabama" ], "website": "https://southerncustomexhibits.com", "hq": { "city": "Anniston", "state": "AL" }, "founded": 1996, "roles": [ "fabrication", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as exhibit fabricator on the Boone Pickens Legacy Experience at Oklahoma State University, which opened to the public June 2025; live company website and LinkedIn presence maintained as of this check. A federal contract for exhibit fabrication at Chaco Culture National Historical Park (per USASpending.gov) began July 8, 2026, the most current activity signal found. A broader USASpending.gov review found over 50 Department of the Interior (NPS/FWS) awards to this firm spanning 2006-2026, most naming a specific park/site — this firm is essentially a recurring NPS exhibit-fabrication contractor with a much larger federal visitor-center portfolio than its own gallery page shows; most of that backlog remains unscreened (only a handful of well-corroborated, dated projects have been added to the corpus so far) and is logged for a future dedicated pass.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Southern Custom Exhibits is an Anniston, Alabama-based, family-run exhibit fabrication and design-build firm operating since the mid-1990s, building interpretive exhibits for museums, national park visitor centers, and university and corporate facilities.\n", "sources": [ "https://southerncustomexhibits.com/", "https://southerncustomexhibits.com/about-2/", "https://southerncustomexhibits.com/services/", "https://southerncustomexhibits.com/x_1-galleries/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/southern-custom-exhibits" ] }, { "id": "southside-design-build", "name": "South Side Design & Building", "aka": [ "Southside Design & Build", "Southside Design + Build" ], "website": "https://www.southsidedb.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2000, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as exhibition fabricator on \"Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio\" at Corning Museum of Glass, opened May 16, 2026, per the firm's own project portfolio; portfolio and site actively maintained as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "South Side Design & Building is a Brooklyn, New York-based exhibit fabrication company, operating since 2000 out of a fabrication facility in Greenpoint, building casework, display systems, and exhibition installations for museums and cultural institutions primarily in the New York area.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.southsidedb.com/about", "https://www.southsidedb.com/", "https://www.southsidedb.com/portfolio-1", "https://gmdconline.org/gmdc_tenants/south-side-design-a-buliding/", "https://isometricstudio.com/germ-city-exhibition", "https://isometricstudio.com/a-dark-a-light-a-bright", "https://www.visitmanitoga.org/russel-mary-wright-design-gallery" ] }, { "id": "span-studio", "name": "Span Studio", "aka": [ "Span", "Thirst (predecessor studio)" ], "website": "https://span.studio", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2020, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multiple 2025-2026 exhibition and signage projects for the Chicago Architecture Center and Intuit Art Museum, including \"Currents: 60 Years of CAC\" and \"Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem\" (both opened June 2026); active project listing on span.studio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Span Studio is a Chicago-based communication design studio working across visual identity, branding, exhibition design, and environmental graphics for cultural institutions, civic organizations, and museums. Founded in 2020 by Bud Rodecker and John Pobojewski, former partners at the Chicago studio Thirst; Nick Adam joined as Associate Partner in 2023.\n", "sources": [ "https://span.studio/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_(design_firm)", "https://gdusa.com/rick-valicentis-thirst-closes-shop/" ] }, { "id": "split-rock-studios", "name": "Split Rock Studios", "aka": [], "website": "https://splitrockstudios.com", "hq": { "city": "Minneapolis", "state": "MN" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2000, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Great River Children's Museum (St. Cloud, MN) opened June 2025; Waḳaŋ Ṭípi Center (Saint Paul, MN) opened May 2026; Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (Medora, ND) opened July 2026; International Dark Sky Discovery Center (Fountain Hills, AZ) in progress, expected 2026; two exhibits (Ancient Seas at Indiana State Museum, Tekαkαpimək Contact Station) recognized at the National Association for Interpretation's 2025 Interpretive Media Awards.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Split Rock Studios is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based, 100% employee-owned exhibit design and fabrication studio founded in 2000 (via the acquisition of Deaton Museum Services, tracing the firm's roots to 1959), producing exhibit design, wood and metal fabrication, graphic design, and interactive media for museums, nature centers, and visitor centers nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://splitrockstudios.com/about/", "https://splitrockstudios.com/capabilities/", "https://splitrockstudios.com/client-list/", "https://splitrockstudios.com/nai-2025-media-award/" ] }, { "id": "stantec", "name": "Stantec", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.stantec.com", "hq": { "city": "Edmonton", "state": "AB" }, "founded": 1954, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Already credited on 6 corpus projects spanning 2018-2024 (BMO Centre Calgary Expansion, Honickman Center, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Memorial Plaza, Vancouver Aquarium AquaQuest, Charles Library at Temple University), the most recent completed 2024.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Stantec is an Edmonton, Alberta-based global architecture and engineering firm founded in 1954, with extensive North American work spanning civic, cultural, and institutional buildings.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.stantec.com" ] }, { "id": "stephen-saitas-designs", "name": "Stephen Saitas Designs", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as \"the Frick's longtime exhibition designer\" on the Frick Collection's Renovation and Enhancement Project, which reopened April 17, 2025; also credited on the Hill Art Foundation's \"Paradise Found\" stained- glass display, installed 2022.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Stephen Saitas Designs is a New York-based exhibition design studio led by Stephen Saitas, working primarily with art museums on gallery renovations, permanent-collection reinstallations, and period-room and object display design. The Frick Collection's longtime exhibition designer, credited on projects there spanning more than a decade.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.frick.org/press/frick-reopens-april-17", "https://www.frick.org/about/frick_madison", "https://www.renfrodesign.com/page/frick-collection-portico-gallery", "https://britishart.yale.edu/news-and-press/yale-center-british-art-completes-major-building-conservation-project-and-reopens", "https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/press/release/martin-building-reopening-oct-2021" ] }, { "id": "steve-feldman-design", "name": "Steve Feldman Design", "aka": [], "website": "http://www.stevefeldmandesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Bethesda", "state": "MD" }, "founded": 1988, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit design credited on 3 existing corpus projects (Malek West Point Visitors Center, Museum of the American Revolution's \"Cost of Revolution,\" National Mounted Warrior Museum Phase 1); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Steve Feldman Design is a Bethesda, Maryland-based museum exhibit planning and design firm founded in 1988.\n", "sources": [ "http://www.stevefeldmandesign.com/the-firm", "http://www.stevefeldmandesign.com/contact" ] }, { "id": "stimulant", "name": "Stimulant", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.stimulant.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2007, "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Intel XR Fab Tour (2023) named a winner in Communication Arts' 2024 Interactive Annual and an AIXR XR Awards 2024 finalist; active studio site. Note: no public evidence dated 2025-2026 found — the newest dated activity is the 2024 award recognition; revisit in 2027.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-20", "summary": "Stimulant is a San Francisco interactive-experience design studio founded in 2007, working at the intersection of experience design, technology, and architecture. It designs interactive exhibits, AR/MR/VR experiences, and custom software for museums, observation decks, and brand visitor centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.stimulant.com/about", "https://www.stimulant.com/work/intel-fab-xr-virtual-tour", "https://sfdesignweek.org/stimulant-this-san-francisco-based-experiential-studio-brings-dreams-to-life-through-digital-interactions/" ] }, { "id": "storyfile", "name": "StoryFile", "website": "https://www.storyfile.com", "hq": { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "media-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Launched \"The Virtual Recipient\" at the National Medal of Honor Museum (March 2025, 7,000+ visitor questions reported since opening) and \"Big Sonia\" at the Museum of Kansas City (September 2025); active news page through 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "StoryFile is a Los Angeles, California company building conversational AI video-testimony installations, founded by Heather Maio, who previously led the USC Shoah Foundation's Dimensions in Testimony project. Museum credits include interactive testimony installations at the National WWII Museum, the National Medal of Honor Museum, the National Naval Aviation Museum, and the Museum of Kansas City.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.storyfile.com", "https://www.storyfile.com/news/national-wwii-museum", "https://www.storyfile.com/news/national-medal-of-honor-museum", "https://www.storyfile.com/news/storyfile-technology-powers-new-big-sonia-exhibit-at-the-museum-of-kansas-city", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions_in_Testimony" ] }, { "id": "storyline-studio", "name": "Storyline Studio", "aka": [ "Storyline" ], "website": "https://www.storylinestudio.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered the Family Discovery Center at the First Americans Museum (Oklahoma City, opened 2025); portfolio and project pages actively maintained on storylinestudio.com as of this check (updates through early 2026).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Storyline Studio is a Seattle-based exhibition design studio founded by Bill Smith, providing strategic planning, interpretive and 3-D exhibit design, media development, and environmental graphics for museums and visitor centers, deliberately staffed by principal-level designers on every project.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.storylinestudio.com/", "https://www.storylinestudio.com/about", "https://firstamericansmuseum.org/" ] }, { "id": "studio-gang", "name": "Studio Gang", "aka": [ "Studio Gang Architects" ], "website": "https://studiogang.com", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 1997, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Designed and co-curated \"Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem\" at the Chicago Architecture Center, opened June 2026; active project listing on studiogang.com.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Studio Gang is a Chicago-based architecture and urban design practice founded by Jeanne Gang in 1997, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Known for the Aqua Tower and other high-profile buildings, the firm's work spans architecture, planning, interiors, and exhibitions with an emphasis on sustainability and community engagement.\n", "sources": [ "https://studiogang.com/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Gang", "https://studiogang.com/now/flyway-city-announcement/" ] }, { "id": "studio-joseph", "name": "Studio Joseph", "aka": [], "website": "https://studiojoseph.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1998, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Recent and upcoming completions per the firm's SEGD profile: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Visitor Center (completion winter 2024) and Library of Congress Visitor Center (completion 2025); active project portfolio maintained on studiojoseph.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Studio Joseph is a New York City-based architecture and exhibition design studio founded by Wendy Evans Joseph in 1998, working on museum buildings, adaptive reuse, and exhibition design for cultural, educational, and public institutions; the firm is a certified Women Business Enterprise.\n", "sources": [ "https://studiojoseph.com/", "https://segd.org/firms/studio-joseph/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Evans_Joseph" ] }, { "id": "studio-matthews", "name": "Studio Matthews", "aka": [], "website": "https://studiomatthews.com", "hq": { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2008, "roles": [ "graphics-wayfinding", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Received five design awards across separate projects in 2025 (Communication Arts Typography Awards for Seattle Convention Center Hillclimb; Communication Arts Design Awards for UPrep ULab Placemaking + Signage; SEGD Global Design Awards for the Gates Foundation \"Designing Motherhood\" exhibition; Core77 Design Awards for a workplace project; Communication Arts Lettering + Printmaking); University of Washington profile on the awards published February 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Studio Matthews is a Seattle-based design studio founded in 2008 by Kristine Matthews, working on exhibitions, environmental graphics, wayfinding, interpretive design, and branding for museums, civic buildings, and institutional clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://studiomatthews.com/about/", "https://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/28748", "https://art.washington.edu/news/2026/02/18/kristine-matthews-award-winning-projects", "https://segd.org/members/kristine-matthews/" ] }, { "id": "swa-group", "name": "SWA Group", "aka": [ "Sasaki, Walker and Associates" ], "website": "https://www.swagroup.com", "hq": { "city": "Sausalito", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 1957, "roles": [ "landscape-architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Halperin Park (Dallas, opened May 2026) and Pacific Plaza Park Pavilion (Dallas, opened 2019) both credit SWA Group's landscape architecture; active multi-studio practice per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "SWA Group is a 100% employee-owned landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm founded in 1957 in Watertown, Massachusetts (as Sasaki, Walker and Associates), now headquartered in Sausalito, California, with studios across the US and internationally.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.swagroup.com/about/", "https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/swa-group" ] }, { "id": "tait", "name": "TAIT", "aka": [ "TAIT Towers", "Thinkwell", "Thinkwell Group" ], "website": "https://www.taittowers.com", "hq": { "city": "Lititz", "state": "PA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Boulder", "state": "CO" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Oakland", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Las Vegas", "state": "NV" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Nashville", "state": "TN" }, { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" } ], "founded": 1978, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "av-integration", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Continuously active global staging, show-technology, and experiential media integrator; live company blog and careers site as of this check; recent fixed-installation work includes CineSational: A Symphonic Spectacular at Universal Studios Florida (opened June 2024) and Top of the Rock Reimagined at Rockefeller Center (opened October 2024).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "TAIT is a Lititz, Pennsylvania-based staging, show-technology, and experiential media integrator founded in 1978, providing exhibit design, media design and software, AV integration, and fabrication for museums, attractions, and other fixed-installation experiential projects in addition to its large-scale touring and live-event production business (out of scope for this index). TAIT acquired Thinkwell Group, a themed entertainment and museum exhibit design studio, whose museum and attraction credits now appear as TAIT's own (\"produced by Thinkwell, now tait\" on TAIT's project pages).\n", "sources": [ "https://www.taittowers.com/about", "https://www.taittowers.com/work", "https://www.taittowers.com/work/us-marshals-museum" ] }, { "id": "taylor-studios", "name": "Taylor Studios", "aka": [ "Taylor Studios, Inc." ], "website": "https://taylorstudios.com", "hq": { "city": "Rantoul", "state": "IL" }, "founded": 1991, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active company website listing projects through 2025 (Skelton Park African American Heritage Trail sculpture, a 2025 National WWI Museum trench/triage exhibit refresh) and open job postings for a Senior Project Manager and CAD Detailer as of this check; credited on the North Dakota Heritage Center expansion (2014), the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History's new building (2019), and the National WWI Museum's 2024 media refresh. Acquired by Innovative Companies Inc. (Proviso Capital) in December 2021; founder Betty Brennan remained president and all 35 staff retained their positions, with no change to the firm's line of business.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Taylor Studios is a Rantoul, Illinois-based exhibit design and fabrication firm founded in 1991, producing interpretive exhibits, dioramas, custom sculptural elements, and environmental graphics for museums, state and national parks, zoos, and visitor centers across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://taylorstudios.com/", "https://taylorstudios.com/about/", "https://taylorstudios.com/our-work/", "https://taylorstudios.com/press-kit/", "https://www.yahoo.com/news/founder-rantouls-taylor-studios-sells-154500590.html", "https://will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/story/taylor-studios" ] }, { "id": "technical-artistry", "name": "Technical Artistry", "website": "https://technicalartistry.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1989, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited for lighting design on the Museum of the City of New York's \"This Is New York\" exhibition (opened 2023); also lighting-design credits on the National WWI Museum renovation, the National Museum of American History's Star-Spangled Banner exhibition, and — per RAA's own project pages — the Zekelman Holocaust Center renovation (2024). Founder Kyle Chepulis died August 29, 2021; the firm continued operating under Principal Designer Brian Aldous, evidenced by continued 2024-2025 project credits.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Technical Artistry is a New York City lighting design and technical consulting firm founded in 1989 by Kyle Chepulis, working primarily with museums, theaters, and cultural institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.mcny.org/this-is-new-york-behind-the-scenes", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/technical-artistry-inc", "https://muse.jhu.edu/article/34064" ] }, { "id": "technomedia", "name": "Technomedia", "aka": [ "Technomedia Solutions" ], "website": "https://www.gotechnomedia.com", "hq": { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2001, "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Mood Media currently markets Technomedia as its advanced AV integration/media division (moodmedia.com, checked 2026-07-18); LinkedIn company page lists an active current workforce (~82 employees); won three 2020 Thea Awards from the Themed Entertainment Association for Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Caution flag (2026-07-19): the firm's own dedicated site (gotechnomedia.com) currently returns a frozen-hosting error on every page, and no independently confirmable completed project newer than 2020 was found on this check — worth a closer look on a future sweep, though Mood Media itself remains an unambiguously live, operating parent company.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Technomedia (Technomedia Solutions, LLC), founded in Orlando, Florida in 2001 and acquired by Mood Media in 2012, is an advanced AV systems integrator providing design, engineering, and integration of large-scale immersive audio-visual and media systems for themed entertainment attractions, museums, and corporate environments.\n", "sources": [ "https://us.moodmedia.com/systems/technomedia/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/technomedia-solutions", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mood-media-announces-acquisition-of-technomedia-solutions-a-premier-provider-of-advanced-entertainment-education-and-consumer-experience-solutions-184893341.html", "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200729005538/en/Technomedia-Wins-Three-2020-Thea-Awards-From-the-Themed-Entertainment-Association-TEA" ] }, { "id": "tessellate", "name": "Tessellate", "aka": [ "Tessellate Studio" ], "website": "https://www.tessellatestudio.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2013, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Exhibit designer on \"We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC\" (2023), the Bering Land Bridge Heritage Center (opened 2025), and the Port of Long Beach Global Trade & Education Center (2019). Firm's own site is live and current as of 2026, marketing active exhibit-design and experience-strategy services.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Tessellate is a New York City-based, woman-owned (WBE-certified) exhibit design studio founded in 2013, working across narrative architecture, spatial design, and experience technology for museums, visitor centers, and brand and cultural spaces.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.tessellatestudio.com/", "https://www.tessellatestudio.com/exhibition-design-company-nyc", "https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/behind-scenes-we-who-believe-freedom" ] }, { "id": "the-design-minds", "name": "The Design Minds", "aka": [ "The Design Minds, Inc." ], "website": "https://thedesignminds.com/", "hq": { "city": "Fairfax", "state": "VA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1999, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active company website with a current portfolio and team page; credited exhibit designer on the Airborne & Special Operations Museum and other museum/visitor-center projects.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "The Design Minds is a Fairfax, Virginia-based exhibit design and interpretive planning firm founded in 1999, working with museums, national parks, and cultural institutions nationwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://thedesignminds.com/", "https://thedesignminds.com/our-work/" ] }, { "id": "the-exhibits-dept", "name": "The Exhibits Dept.", "aka": [], "website": "https://exhibitsdept.com", "hq": { "city": "Pacific Grove", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2022, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Cabrillo Marine Aquarium exhibit hall renovation (San Pedro, CA) opened spring 2026; Curiosity Farms at Thanksgiving Point (Lehi, UT) opened September 2024; Trudeau Building exhibits at Historic Saranac Lake (NY) announced for an August 2026 grand opening.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "The Exhibits Dept. is a Pacific Grove, California-based boutique exhibit design studio, founded 2022 by principals Sarah Bartlett, Bart Hays, and Travis Wood, providing exhibit design, content development, and media design for museums, nature centers, and aquariums — often supplementing in-house institutional staff or partnering with architecture and fabrication firms on full-service delivery.\n", "sources": [ "https://exhibitsdept.com/", "https://exhibitsdept.com/about", "https://exhibitsdept.com/our-team", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/exhibitsdept" ] }, { "id": "the-hettema-group", "name": "THG Creative", "aka": [ "The Hettema Group", "THG", "Themespace" ], "website": "https://thgcreative.com", "hq": { "city": "Pasadena", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 2002, "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Priddy Family Foundation Freedom Theater at The National WWII Museum opened late 2023 and won a Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement (31st Annual, announced November 2024); active project gallery maintained on thgcreative.com as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "THG Creative is a Pasadena, California-based experience design studio founded by Phil Hettema in 2002 as The Hettema Group, creating attractions, exhibits, and immersive theatrical experiences for museums, theme parks, and observation venues. It took its current name after a 2022 merger with Pasadena-based themed-entertainment design firm Themespace.\n", "sources": [ "https://thgcreative.com", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hettema", "https://labusinessjournal.com/real-estate/hettema-group-designs-unique-experiences/" ] }, { "id": "the-prd-group", "name": "The PRD Group", "aka": [], "website": "https://theprdgroup.com/", "hq": { "city": "Fairfax", "state": "VA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" } ], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active company website with current project portfolio and team page; credited exhibit designer/master planner on the George W. Bush Presidential Center (2013) and Museum of the Bible (2017). Most recently, \"More Perfect Union: The American Civil War Era\" opened July 10, 2026 at the Atlanta History Center, widely covered independently (CBS Atlanta, SaportaReport, Atlanta Magazine, Fox 5), though that specific press coverage does not itself name PRD.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "The PRD Group (Planning, Research, and Design) is a Chantilly, Virginia-based exhibit design and visitor-experience planning firm with 35+ years of experience, working with museums and presidential libraries on exhibit master planning, content development, and design.\n", "sources": [ "https://theprdgroup.com/", "https://theprdgroup.com/about/" ] }, { "id": "the-shalleck-collaborative", "name": "The Shalleck Collaborative", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Berkeley", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" } ], "roles": [ "technical-consulting" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Theatre planning/AV consultant on the Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island, WA, opened 2016); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "The Shalleck Collaborative is a theatre-planning and AV consulting firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.shalleck.com/post/2016/06/25/vashon-center-for-the-arts-opens-on-vashon-island", "https://www.shalleck.com/contact-3" ] }, { "id": "the-taylor-group", "name": "The Taylor Group", "aka": [ "Taylor Manufacturing Industries", "Taylor Inc." ], "website": "https://www.taylorinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Franklin", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Cleveland", "state": "OH" }, { "city": "Las Vegas", "state": "NV" }, { "city": "Orlando", "state": "FL" }, { "city": "Toronto", "state": "ON", "country": "CA" } ], "founded": 1931, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabrication credited on The National WWII Museum's Road to Victory master plan, which reached its capstone opening (Liberation Pavilion) in 2023; firm's own site (taylorinc.com) describes \"90+ years of exhibit fabrication,\" 200+ staff across five North American locations, and lists current agency-partner and Fortune 500 client programs as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "The Taylor Group (Taylor Manufacturing Industries Inc.) is an exhibit fabrication and event-production company headquartered in Franklin, Massachusetts, operating since 1931 with roughly 700,000 sq ft of manufacturing across five North American locations, producing museum exhibits, trade show environments, and branded activations for Fortune 500 clients and cultural institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.taylorinc.com/", "https://www.taylorinc.com/abouttaylor", "https://www.taylorinc.com/contactus", "https://www.eoslightmedia.com/work/60", "https://www.cambridgeseven.com/project/san-francisco-49ers-museum/", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17821-national-wwii-museum-in-new-orleans-after-20-years-completes-final-phase", "https://www.availablelight.com/work/national-world-war-ii-museum-us-freedom-pavilion" ] }, { "id": "the-urban-conga", "name": "The Urban Conga", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.theurbanconga.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed Common Corner in the Bronx, NY (installed December 2025) and A Cappella in Jacksonville, FL (installed May 2026); active studio website and press coverage through 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "The Urban Conga is a Brooklyn, NY-based multidisciplinary design studio founded by Ryan Swanson (joined by Maeghann Coleman, AIA) that designs and fabricates community-co-designed interactive public art installations and \"playable city\" interventions — parks, plazas, housing developments, and festival commissions — across the United States.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.theurbanconga.com/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urban_Conga", "https://www.usf.edu/arts/news/2022-23-news/20230628-urban-conga-by-school-of-architecture-graduates-ryan-swanson-and-maeghann-coleman-featured-in-architect-magazine.aspx" ] }, { "id": "thinc-design", "name": "Thinc Design", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.thincdesign.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1992, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Multiple recent and in-progress projects: Dance to Belong at 92NY (opened March 2024), Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion (opened August 2024), and two announced projects with year_expected in the near term (John F. Wolfe Aquarium at the Columbus Zoo, targeted 2029; the Milwaukee Public Museum's \"Future Museum,\" targeted 2026).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Thinc Design is a New York City exhibition design and media studio founded in 1992 by Tom Hennes, working across museums, aquariums, zoos, memorials, and brand experience centers. The firm's credits include the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the Empire State Building's observatory experience, and aquarium and natural history exhibits for institutions including the California Academy of Sciences and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.thincdesign.com/about", "https://www.thincdesign.com/portfolio", "https://www.thincdesign.com/team" ] }, { "id": "three-dimensional-services", "name": "Three Dimensional Services", "aka": [ "3DS" ], "website": "https://3dservices.com", "hq": { "city": "Delta", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Toronto", "state": "ON", "country": "CA" }, { "city": "Grand Rapids", "state": "MI" } ], "founded": 1980, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Two Columbia River Maritime Museum exhibitions fabricated and installed in 2024 (\"ntsayka ilíi ukuk — This is Our Place\" and \"Cedar and Sea\"); active project portfolio pages current as of 2026 including the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre and Chinatown Storytelling Centre.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Three Dimensional Services (3DS) is a museum and exhibit fabrication firm headquartered in Delta, British Columbia, founded in 1980, with additional offices in Toronto, Ontario and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It builds exhibit casework, interactive science-center displays, and interpretive environments for museums, cultural centers, and visitor attractions across North America.\n", "sources": [ "https://3dservices.com", "https://3dservices.com/projects/exhibits/", "https://3dservices.com/portfolio/squamish-lilwat-cultural-centre/", "https://3dservices.com/portfolio/chinatown-storytelling-centre/" ] }, { "id": "threshold-acoustics", "name": "Threshold Acoustics", "aka": [ "Threshold" ], "website": "https://threshold.llc", "hq": { "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL" }, "founded": 2006, "roles": [ "acoustics", "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Kennedy Center's \"Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy\" (2022); ongoing partner on the Obama Presidential Center per its own site; published journal content dated April 2025.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Threshold Acoustics is a Chicago-based acoustics and AV design consultancy founded in 2006 by three former senior staff of Kirkegaard Associates, serving performance, education, worship, cultural, and civic spaces.\n", "sources": [ "https://threshold.llc/", "https://ncac.com/member_data/threshold-acoustics-llc/" ] }, { "id": "tillotson-design-associates", "name": "Tillotson Design Associates", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.tillotsondesign.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2004, "roles": [ "lighting-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the High Line – Moynihan Connector (opened 2023) as lighting designer, plus five other credited projects already in this dataset (Brooklyn Public Library Canarsie Branch, MIT Museum galleries, Princeton University Art Museum new building, Smithsonian NMAI Heye Center Infinity of Nations, US Olympic and Paralympic Museum galleries); active studio portfolio on firm website as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Tillotson Design Associates is a New York-based architectural lighting design consultancy founded in 2004 by Suzan Tillotson, working on museums, libraries, performance halls, parks, and other cultural and institutional projects for architecture clients worldwide.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.tillotsondesign.com/", "https://www.som.com/projects/high-line-moynihan-connector/" ] }, { "id": "tod-williams-billie-tsien-architects", "name": "Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects", "aka": [ "TWBTA" ], "website": "https://twbta.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1986, "roles": [ "architecture", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "The Obama Presidential Center, TWBTA's museum-tower-and-campus design in Chicago, opened to the public June 19, 2026 (CNN, Dezeen, Architectural Record); firm's own site actively maintains a current project list.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects is a New York-based architecture firm founded in 1986 by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, focused on institutional work for museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations, including the American Folk Art Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Hood Museum of Art, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, and the Obama Presidential Center.\n", "sources": [ "https://twbta.com/work/cultural/the-obama-presidential-center/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Williams_Billie_Tsien_Architects", "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/style/obama-presidential-center-first-look-inside", "https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/18268-the-obama-presidential-center-opens-on-chicagos-south-side" ] }, { "id": "trivium-interactive", "name": "Trivium Interactive", "website": "https://www.triviuminteractive.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "\"You, Me, We\" exhibition at Boston Children's Museum, co-created by Trivium Interactive, won the American Alliance of Museums' 2024 Award for Advancement of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility & Inclusion.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Trivium Interactive is a Boston, Massachusetts-based, women-owned experiential media design studio producing interactive and immersive media, animation, and video content for museums and attractions.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.triviuminteractive.com/", "https://www.aam-us.org/2024/03/19/aam-recognizes-13-individuals-and-10-institutions-for-exemplary-work-in-the-museum-field/", "https://www.triviuminteractive.com/whats-new/you-me-we-exhibition-at-the-boston-childrens-museum-has-won-the-2024-american-alliance-of-museums-award-for-advancement-of-diversity-equity-accessibility-inclusion", "https://www.triviuminteractive.com/project/seachange" ] }, { "id": "tuck-hinton-architects", "name": "Tuck-Hinton Architects", "aka": [ "Tuck Hinton Architecture & Design" ], "website": "http://tuckhinton.net/", "hq": { "city": "Nashville", "state": "TN" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1984, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on three Nashville/Middle Tennessee visitor-experience projects spanning 2001-2016 (Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum; Jack Daniel's Distillery's White Rabbit Bottle Shop and Barrel House 1-14); firm listing and studio page remain live under new/younger ownership after founding principal Kem Hinton departed to form Kem Hinton Design in 2019, with current business listings (Yelp) showing activity as recently as June 2026.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Tuck-Hinton Architects is a Nashville, Tennessee architecture firm founded in 1984 by Seab Tuck and Kem Hinton, known for civic, cultural, and museum buildings in Middle Tennessee including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Adventure Science Center; the firm continues to operate under its original name and city.\n", "sources": [ "http://tuckhinton.net/", "https://www.yelp.com/biz/tuck-hinton-architecture-and-design-nashville", "https://sah-archipedia.org/Architects/Tuck-Hinton-Architects" ] }, { "id": "tvsdesign", "name": "tvsdesign", "aka": [ "TVS", "Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates" ], "website": "https://www.tvsdesign.com", "hq": { "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "Tampa", "state": "FL" }, { "city": "Shanghai" } ], "founded": 1968, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited as architect on Mote SEA, the Mote Marine Laboratory Science Education Aquarium (opened October 2025); 100%-employee-owned firm received the AIA Architecture Firm Award in 2002 and continues active practice.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "tvsdesign (formerly Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates) is an Atlanta-based architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1968, with additional offices in Los Angeles, Tampa, and Shanghai, specializing in sports, entertainment, and cultural venues including stadiums, aquariums, and convention centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.tvsdesign.com/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvsdesign" ] }, { "id": "two-twelve", "name": "Two Twelve", "aka": [ "212Harakawa" ], "website": "https://www.twotwelve.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Honolulu", "state": "HI" } ], "founded": 1980, "roles": [ "graphics-wayfinding" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on Beyond Wayfinding at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2022, SEGD Global Design Awards Honor Award 2023 and Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award 2023); firm's own site actively listing work.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Two Twelve (legally 212Harakawa Inc.) is a New York-based wayfinding and environmental graphic design firm founded in 1980 by David Gibson, Juanita Dugdale, and Sylvia Harris, with a second office in Honolulu, working on signage and wayfinding systems for sports venues, museums, healthcare, and public spaces; a certified minority-owned and woman-owned business enterprise.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.twotwelve.com/culture", "https://www.twotwelve.com/" ] }, { "id": "uap-urban-art-projects", "name": "UAP (Urban Art Projects)", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabrication lead on the Big Button Sculpture (New York, NY, unveiled 2023); active per its own site as of verification date. Note: US operating presence via a New York studio; global HQ is Brisbane, Australia.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "UAP (Urban Art Projects) is a public-art design and fabrication studio with a New York studio and global headquarters in Brisbane, Australia.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.uapcompany.com/" ] }, { "id": "unified-field", "name": "Unified Field", "aka": [], "website": "https://www.unifiedfield.com", "hq": { "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1990, "roles": [ "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active, current project portfolio and studio site as of this check; \"Dogs! A Science Tail\" (Unified Field-credited digital interactives and media) returned to the California Science Center in May 2025, evidence of ongoing touring exhibit life within the activity window.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Unified Field is a New York experience design and media production studio founded in 1990, creating interactive exhibits, digital media, and software for museums, cultural institutions, visitor centers, and corporate clients.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.unifiedfield.com/about", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/unified-field", "https://californiasciencecenter.org/press-room/pressrelease/2025-05-20/dogs-a-science-tail-returns-to-the-california-science-center" ] }, { "id": "upswell", "name": "Upswell", "aka": [], "website": "https://upswell.studio", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 2009, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "media-design", "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Delivered \"In This Place,\" a permanent gallery at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, opened 2025), and interactive media for the Library of Congress's \"Collecting Memories\" exhibition (2024); portfolio actively maintained on upswell.studio.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Upswell is a Portland, Oregon-based exhibition and experience design studio founded in 2009, providing interpretive planning, exhibition design, experience design, and digital/AV media for museums, libraries, and archives, including the Library of Congress, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.\n", "sources": [ "https://upswell.studio/about/", "https://upswell.studio/work", "https://upswell.studio/work/treasures-gallery-collecting-memories/", "https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.upswell_llc.ba83369142580d20d8aec5cd383ee8f7.html" ] }, { "id": "verner-johnson", "name": "Verner Johnson", "aka": [ "Verner Johnson, Inc.", "E. Verner Johnson & Associates", "E. Verner Johnson Architect, Inc." ], "website": "https://vernerjohnson.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1965, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architect of record on the Cosmosphere's Space Race renovation (Hutchinson, KS), completed September 2025 as part of a 105,000 sq ft expansion; firm site (vernerjohnson.com) maintains an active museum-architecture portfolio as of this check. Founder E. Verner Johnson died in 2017; the firm continues practicing under the Verner Johnson name.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Verner Johnson is a Boston-based architecture firm founded in 1965 by E. Verner Johnson, specializing exclusively in museum planning, design, and architecture; it describes itself as the only US architecture firm focused solely on museums, with roughly 200 museum projects to date including work for the Smithsonian Institution and the Louvre.\n", "sources": [ "https://vernerjohnson.com", "https://vernerjohnson.com/portfolio/kansas-cosmosphere-and-space-center/", "http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-092625a-cosmosphere-hall-of-space-renovations-complete.html", "https://www.currentobituary.com/obit/205166", "https://sah-archipedia.org/Architects/E-Verner-Johnson" ] }, { "id": "videobred", "name": "Videobred", "aka": [], "website": "https://videobred.com", "hq": { "city": "Louisville", "state": "KY" }, "founded": 1979, "roles": [ "content-production" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active portfolio and museums page maintained on videobred.com as of this check, including recent museum media-production credits (World Heritage Center, 2024; National Museum of African American Music).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Videobred is a Louisville, Kentucky-based video and multimedia production company, founded in 1979, producing films, video walls, and touchscreen interactive content for museums and cultural institutions.\n", "sources": [ "https://videobred.com/", "https://videobred.com/museums/", "https://videobred.com/our-story/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/nmaam/", "https://gallagherdesign.com/project/st-louis-kaplan-feldman-holocaust-museum/" ] }, { "id": "volume-inc", "name": "Volume Inc.", "aka": [ "Volume", "Volume Design Inc." ], "website": "https://volumesf.com", "hq": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" }, "founded": 2000, "roles": [ "graphics-wayfinding", "exhibit-design" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Credited on the Brooklyn Basin Township Commons environmental graphics project (2020); active firm website with a current work archive as of this check.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Volume Inc. is a San Francisco-based graphic design studio founded in 2000 by Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman, specializing in place-based identities, environmental graphics, and exhibit graphic programs for science museums and mixed-use developments.\n", "sources": [ "https://volumesf.com/", "https://volumesf.com/about/", "https://www.commarts.com/features/volume-inc" ] }, { "id": "voorsanger-architects", "name": "Voorsanger Architects", "aka": [ "Voorsanger & Mills Associates", "Voorsanger Architects PC", "Voorsanger Mathes LLC" ], "website": "https://www.voorsanger.com/", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "founded": 1978, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture credit across The National WWII Museum's Road to Victory campus master plan (phases through the 2023 Liberation Pavilion) and the 2014-2015 Campaigns of Courage pavilion; firm's own site lists current work including the Museum of the Vietnam War & Archive at Texas Tech University as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Voorsanger Architects is a New York City architecture firm founded in 1978 by Bartholomew Voorsanger (originally as Voorsanger & Mills Associates, reorganized as Voorsanger Architects PC in 1990), known for cultural and institutional work including The National WWII Museum's campus master plan and pavilions in New Orleans.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.voorsanger.com/about", "https://www.voorsanger.com/projects", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Voorsanger", "https://voorsanger.com/projects/national-wwii-museum-masterplan" ] }, { "id": "wb-inc", "name": "WB Inc.", "aka": [ "WB, Inc." ], "website": "https://wbinc.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1977, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Fabricated \"Polaroid: From Concept to Product\" at HBS Baker Library (opened 2024, per Boston Globe and HBS's own release) and the MIT Kavli Institute's McNair Tribute (2024); recurring, ongoing fabrication client of Proun Design's Boston-area museum exhibits (13 credited projects in this index, 2007-2024).\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "WB Inc. is a Boston-based exhibit production and fabrication company operating since 1977, providing in-house fabrication of custom museum exhibits, casework, millwork, and specialty fabrication, frequently as build partner to Proun Design on Boston-area university and museum installations.\n", "sources": [ "https://wbinc.com/portfolio/", "https://wbinc.com/contact/", "https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/from-concept-to-product-exhibit.aspx", "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/10/arts/polaroid-harvard-business-school-show-edwin-land/" ] }, { "id": "west-office", "name": "West Office", "aka": [ "West Office Exhibition Design" ], "website": "https://woed.com", "hq": { "city": "Oakland", "state": "CA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1985, "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning", "master-planning" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Portfolio site (woed.com) lists an active, current studio with a maintained projects page and staff; woed.com's current \"Featured Projects\" carousel leads with Space Race at the Cosmosphere (completed September 2025, already in this dataset), postdating the prior anchor projects (Gold Mountain, The California Museum, opened January 2020; SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, 2021/2022). No evidence of closure; studio has operated continuously since 1985 per its own history page.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "West Office (West Office Exhibition Design) is an Oakland, California-based exhibit design and museum planning studio founded in 1985, working across science and technology museums, children's museums, environmental centers, history and cultural museums, and corporate visitor centers.\n", "sources": [ "https://woed.com/", "https://woed.com/about/", "https://woed.com/projects/" ] }, { "id": "why-architecture", "name": "WHY Architecture", "aka": [ "wHY", "WHY" ], "website": "https://why-site.com", "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" } ], "founded": 2003, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Design architect on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, reopened May 31, 2025; also named lead on the Getty Center's announced campus modernization (Welcome Hall renovation and wayfinding), targeted to reopen ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "WHY Architecture (wHY) is a New York and Los Angeles-based architecture and design studio founded in 2003 by Kulapat Yantrasast, known for museum and cultural work including the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.\n", "sources": [ "https://why-site.com/why/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulapat_Yantrasast", "https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/mcrw-opening-english-2025", "https://www.beyerblinderbelle.com/work/view/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/michael-c-rockefeller-wing/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Museum_of_Motion_Pictures" ] }, { "id": "william-rawn-associates", "name": "William Rawn Associates, Architects", "aka": [ "William Rawn Associates" ], "website": "https://rawnarch.com", "hq": { "city": "Boston", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "founded": 1983, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Lead architect for the Boston Public Library Central Library renovation that included the Children's Library and Teen Central (2015) and the East Boston Branch Library (2013). Firm's own site lists 2024–2025 awards (CNU Charter Award, USITT Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award) and ongoing conference presentations, confirming current activity.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "William Rawn Associates is a Boston-based architecture firm founded in 1983 by William L. Rawn III, known for performing-arts, higher-education, and public-realm buildings — including Tanglewood's Seiji Ozawa Hall — and for civic and library work such as the Boston Public Library's Central Library renovation.\n", "sources": [ "https://rawnarch.com/about/", "https://rawnarch.com/insights/", "https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/architect-50/2009-architect-50-no-1-william-rawn-associates_o" ] }, { "id": "wondercabinet-interpretive-design", "name": "Wondercabinet Interpretive Design, Inc.", "aka": [], "website": "https://cargocollective.com/wondercabinet", "hq": { "city": "Lexington", "state": "MA" }, "other_offices": [], "roles": [ "exhibit-design", "interpretive-planning" ], "status": "unclear", "status_basis": "Firm's own primary site (wondercabinet.com) is dead, and its Cargo Collective fallback portfolio shows no projects dated later than 2012-2013. However, two of this dataset's own existing credits — independently sourced via Proun Design's own site, not Wondercabinet's — show continued work through 2021 (Cape Lookout National Seashore Beaufort Visitor Center, opened April 2021 per NPS; Tellus Science Museum's \"My Big Backyard,\" 2021), directly contradicting a prior, narrower basis that only weighed 4 of the firm's 8 corpus credits. No activity signal of any kind found for 2022-2026 despite that. Portfolio screen re-verified 2026-07-19.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "Wondercabinet Interpretive Design, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts exhibit planning and design firm working on children's museums, history and cultural museums, science centers, visitor centers, and corporate museums, with several National Park Service visitor-center credits.\n", "sources": [ "https://cargocollective.com/wondercabinet", "https://www.homeyou.com/wondercabinet-interpretive-design-inc-lexington-ma" ] }, { "id": "wxy-architecture", "name": "WXY Architecture", "aka": [], "hq": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Architecture on the Official New York City Information Center (New York, NY, opened 2009); active per its own site as of verification date.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-19", "summary": "WXY Architecture is a New York City-based architecture and urban design firm.\n", "sources": [ "https://wxystudio.com/" ] }, { "id": "xibitz", "name": "Xibitz", "aka": [], "website": "https://xibitz.com", "hq": { "city": "Grand Rapids", "state": "MI" }, "founded": 1988, "roles": [ "fabrication" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Active company website and news page with a 2025-dated project (The DoSeum's \"Uniquely Us: Understanding Race and Building Unity\") and 2023 \"35 Years of Business\" anniversary announcement; company acquired by current partners Ben Metzger and Jeremy Miller in 2015.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Xibitz is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based exhibit fabrication company, founded in 1988 as a trade show exhibit builder and now operating an 80,000-square-foot facility producing custom museum, corporate, athletics, higher-education, and healthcare exhibits and interiors.\n", "sources": [ "https://xibitz.com/", "https://xibitz.com/history-and-team/", "https://xibitz.com/news-35-years-of-business/", "https://xibitz.com/doseum/" ] }, { "id": "zenith-systems", "name": "Zenith Systems", "website": "https://www.zenithsystems.com", "hq": { "city": "Cleveland", "state": "OH" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Lorain", "state": "OH" }, { "city": "Erie", "state": "PA" }, { "city": "Youngstown", "state": "OH" }, { "city": "Akron", "state": "OH" }, { "city": "Columbus", "state": "OH" } ], "roles": [ "av-integration" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Cleveland Museum of Art lobby digital signage installed March 2025 and \"Pintoricchio Magnified\" dvLED exhibit installed by Aug 2025 (running through Aug 2026); active current job postings.\n", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "Zenith Systems is a Cleveland, Ohio design-build electrical, technology, and audio/video systems integration firm, serving as AV integrator on multiple Cleveland Museum of Art digital installations since at least 2012 and on the Civil Debate Wall at the University of Florida's Bob Graham Center for Public Service.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.zenithsystems.com/services/audio-video", "https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations/digital-innovation-collaborators", "https://www.clevelandart.org/articles/our-new-lobby-digital-signage", "https://www.localprojects.com/work/institutional-hospital-university-college/civil-debate-wall/" ] }, { "id": "zgf-architects", "name": "ZGF Architects", "aka": [ "Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership" ], "website": "https://www.zgf.com", "hq": { "city": "Portland", "state": "OR" }, "other_offices": [ { "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA" }, { "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "CA" }, { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }, { "city": "Washington", "state": "DC" }, { "city": "Vancouver", "state": "BC", "country": "CA" } ], "founded": 1942, "roles": [ "architecture" ], "status": "active", "status_basis": "Completed Illumina Executive Briefing Center (2023) and Amazon HQ2 Visitor Landing (ongoing campus work); large multi-office active practice", "status_verified": "2026-07-18", "summary": "ZGF Architects is a Portland, Oregon-based architecture firm founded in 1942 (originally Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership), with additional North American offices including Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, and Vancouver, BC. Beyond core architecture, ZGF credits include environmental graphic design and wayfinding on corporate and institutional campuses.\n", "sources": [ "https://www.zgf.com/about", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZGF_Architects" ] } ]