Building LEGO Bridges (Over Ponds of Water Lilies) A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Building LEGO Bridges (Over Ponds of Water Lilies)

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Town Squares, not Telephone Booths A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Town Squares, not Telephone Booths

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Material World: Sourcing Smarter for Museum Exhibits A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Material World: Sourcing Smarter for Museum Exhibits

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Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: "Nature's Reflection" A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: "Nature's Reflection"

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Revisiting "Staff over Stuff" A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Revisiting "Staff over Stuff"

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Your Museum and America's Big Birthday Party A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Your Museum and America's Big Birthday Party

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Take It Inside! When Museums Bring the Great Outdoors In A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Take It Inside! When Museums Bring the Great Outdoors In

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Where are Your Museum's "Fans" on Super Bowl Sunday? A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Where are Your Museum's "Fans" on Super Bowl Sunday?

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Save Our Signs and Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Rally to Preserve Public History A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Save Our Signs and Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Rally to Preserve Public History

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New Year, New Exhibits Approaches A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

New Year, New Exhibits Approaches

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Frame by Frame: What Two Graphic Novels Can Teach Us About Museum Storytelling A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

What Two Graphic Novels Can Teach Us About Museum Storytelling

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Happy New PROJECTS! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

My resolution for 2026? More doing, less planning.

We can partner up this year—from "Whirlwind Workshops" to full-scale exhibit design—to make your visitor experiences "sticky" and surprising.

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Three Chatbots Walk Into a Museum... A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Three Chatbots Walk Into a Museum...

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The "Forever Ready" Exhibit A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

The "Forever Ready" Exhibit

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Museum Evaluation Unlocked! YouTube video by Paul Orselli Workshop Inc

Check out this lively conversation with Sheri Levinsky-Raskin.

Our video chat is packed with evaluation tips you can use right away at your museum.

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Ideas for Giving Thanks in your Museum A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Ideas for Giving Thanks in your Museum

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Recent feedback from a client regarding a new exhibition plan I submitted, "It has been met with truly joyful responses ..."

Let's talk about how to fill your next project with creative (and joyful!) ideas.

Quick Exhibit Inspiration: Playing with Toys! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Quick Exhibit Inspiration: Playing with Toys!

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More Museum Conversations on the POW! YouTube Channel! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

More Museum Conversations on the POW! YouTube Channel!

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A Conversation About Protototyping (With A Twist!) YouTube video by Paul Orselli Workshop Inc

A Conversation About Protototyping (With A Twist!)

A fun and informative conversation with Experience Designer Adriana Magni about how to thoughtfully include prototyping in both your digital and non-digital projects.

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Quick Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: OpenWebcamDB A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Quick Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: OpenWebcamDB

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The Solo Exhibit Designer's Survival Guide A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

The Solo Exhibit Designer's Survival Guide

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How Do You Design One Space That Works for All Ages? A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

How Do You Design One Space That Works for All Ages?

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Recent Museum Evaluation Trends with Jessica Sickler YouTube video by Paul Orselli Workshop Inc

"Screens vs. Stuff!" Evaluator Jessica Sickler shares game-changing research in this engaging and informative conversation.

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The Room(s) Where It Happened ...

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Museum Work as (Quiet) Resistance A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Museum Work as (Quiet) Resistance

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The Secret Sauce of High-Quality Museums: Internal Capacity A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

The Secret Sauce of High-Quality Museums: Internal Capacity

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First They Came for Black History The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.

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Postcards from the Future! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Postcards from the Future!

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Statement on White House Interference at the Smithsonian The White House’s latest, most concerted effort yet to bend the Smithsonian Institution to its will through a “comprehensive review” of content and policies—starting with its foremost museums of history, culture, and art—is an affront

The White House's latest effort to bend the Smithsonian to its will is an affront to our country's cultural crown jewel, history practitioners, and the American people. We urge both our field and our audiences to reject this effort and stand up for a full and honest approach to our shared story.