At the beginning of the new year, the Exhibition’s department rearranged our areas to better encourage collaboration and brainstorming. Over a span of two weeks, we transformed our exhibit storage area into the brand new design studio.Shelves were moved, past exhibit props were organized and all of the design equipment was moved in. It is […]
Next spring, the Indiana Historical Society will be one of many organizations commemorating the Great Flood of 1913? that affected cities and towns throughout the Midwest and the Ohio River Valley. Over the Easter holiday weekend in 1913, the area received between six and 12 inches of rainfall over a five-day period that added to […]
The exhibitions staff at the Indiana Historical Society is breathing a collective sigh of relief, having recently opened to the public its newest You Are There offering that recreates a wonderful moment in Indiana (and national) history: the discovery and distribution of the polio vaccine. Bringing to life a scene of workers at Eli Lilly […]
Why is it so quiet today in Exhibits Design and Prep? This week, more than half of the exhibits team is off enjoying a well-deserved spring break (as isthe rest of the IUPUI campus), and boy do we miss them. For anyone who has visited the History Center in the past two years, it should […]
Why is it so quiet today in Exhibits Design and Prep? This week, more than half of the exhibits team is off enjoying a well-deserved spring break (alongside the rest of IUPUI campus), and boy do we miss them. For anyone who has visited the Indiana History Center in the past two years, it should […]
These days, the exhibitions staff is hard at work on the next You Are There project, recreating a photograph of Fannie Kaplan cooking in her kitchen on the south side of Indianapolis. This photograph, part of the Jewish Welfare Federation Collection in the Indiana Historical Society library, shows Mrs. Kaplan, whose family has just moved […]
I used to believe that all a job took was passion. As long as I found a job I loved doing, then the rest of the work would do itself. But after two quick weeks at the Indiana Historical Society working as an intern, I can?t believe how naive that idea was. Just looking past […]
When the next You Are There experience opens to the public on Feb. 22, 2011, visitors will have the opportunity to step back in time through an Indiana Historical Society photograph and into the night Robert Kennedy announced the death of Martin Luther King Jr. to a stunned crowd. This entire project could not have […]
In order to recreate the speech that Robert Kennedy gave in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968 for the upcoming You Are There experience at the History Center, the exhibits team not only brings to life the stories of that night through the interpreters, films, graphic panels and computer interactives, but they also must recreate the […]
Sometimes the work of a history researcher can be a wonderful journey of finding clues and solving mysteries. However, sometimes it can be just the opposite. There are times when the clues just don?t add up and the pieces do not fall into place with ease. Such has been the case with a recent project […]
