The exhibition documents the origin of the National Museum of American History. The 50th-anniversary display focused on the Museum, circa 1964, as it was originally conceived, designed, and built. It also took a look through the past five decades to see how the Museum evolved and transformed into what it is today.

 

To best portray the story of the museum, I worked closely with the head curator and together we collected documents and objects to display the museum's history through a broader context of modernism in technology and architecture. Inspired by the modernist movement, I designed all the new cases, retrofitted each existing case, set all graphics and text panels to reference this style. I also redesigned the case for the museum's original model to match the modernist style with clean lines and a lifted pedestal. The model is on display at the director's office.

 

A video of behind-the-scenes interviews and timeline gives a glimpse at the making of the exhibit. Click here to watch