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NAME is grateful to its event sponsors at the AAM Annual Meeting in Denver:


1220 Exhibits Inc.
Over the past 32 years, 1220 has assembled a creative, professional staff of project managers, costing technicians, researchers, builders, installers and administrators that are dedicated to producing sophisticated, state-of-the-art museum projects.  Our expertise and experience has grown more solid and far-reaching with each project. From mounting and preserving fragile artifacts on rolling train exhibitions; to handling multi-million dollar sports collections, to bringing a designer’s preliminary concepts to a “buildable” stage within restrictive budgets.
http://www.1220.com



Cambridge Seven Associates
At Cambridge Seven Associates, we design distinctive museums and experiential exhibits that make learning stimulating, accessible, and engaging. We seek to create immersive environments that spark informal and multimodal learning in a captivating way. Cambridge Seven Associates endows museums, aquariums, zoos and visitors centers with a sense of place, wonder, and discovery that have made them internationally and nationally-renown destinations.  
http://www.c7a.com



Chedd-Angier-Lewis
For more than 25 years, Chedd-Angier-Lewis has been a recognized world leader in creating immersive media for museums and broadcast. We construct engaging narratives that illuminate science, history, culture, and the natural world for audiences of all ages. Founded by part of the team that created public television's Nova series, the company has produced hundreds of audiovisual programs and unique multimedia experiences for museums and institutions around the globe.
http://www.chedd-angier-lewis.com



Electrosonic Systems, Inc.
Electrosonic is a technology systems engineering company specializing in audio, video, control and media networks.  We are engineers, designers, project managers and technology application experts.  We have an excellent reputation with our clients and competitors alike and a broad experience in system design that is unequal.  Founded in 1964, Electrosonic has been a leader in the audiovisual industry for over 40 years.
http://www.electrosonic.com



Jack Rouse Associates
Jack Rouse Associates (JRA) is a group of 60 planners, designers, writers, and producers offering a wide variety of planning, design and project management services for cultural facilities around the world. Using strong story lines, immersive environments and cutting-edge interactives, our exhibits attract visitors to museums and engage them in the joy of learning.  JRA's recent clients include The Field Museum, Singapore Science Centre, Kennedy Space Center, COSI, The Franklin Institute, Carnegie Science Center and the Guangdong Science Center.
http://www.jackrouse.com



Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership
Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership uniquely specializes in both architecture and exhibits. As an integrated design firm, LHSA+DP represents an uncommon breadth of expertise in architecture, interior and graphic design, interpretive planning and museum education. Central to LHSA+DP’s mission is a collaborative process of interpretive planning and programming ensuring a sensitive, holistic approach to projects that has resulted in one of the most diverse and energetic portfolios in the country.
http://www.skolnick.com



Superior Exhibits and Design, Inc.
Superior Exhibits and Design, Inc. provides comprehensive in house value design/value engineering services, prototyping, fabrication and installation services to museums, zoos, aquariums, visitor centers and design firms worldwide.  Our in house capabilities include but are not limited to: interactives, electronics, metal fabrication, dioramas, life cast forms, vitrines and artifact based displays.  Whether you have an upcoming renovation project, traveling exhibit or new permanent gallery give our Museum Services Division a call at 847-364-9380 extension 41 or email us at
http://www.superiorexhibits.com



Synergy Design Group
Synergy Design Group specializes in the planning and development of exciting learning environments for interpretive spaces with an emphasis on cultural history and natural science. Today’s learning environments need to allow people to discover new ideas, develop multiple perceptions, and evolve new relationships with their environments and history. From the initial master plan through final design development, Synergy helps you translate your museum goals into meaningful dialogues with visitors of all ages and abilities.
 www.synergydesigngroup.net



Thinkwell
Thinkwell specializes in balancing education with experience to create exhibits that are highly appealing, deeply engaging and profoundly rewarding. With extensive backgrounds in museum exhibits, theatre and entertainment, Thinkwell’s talent lies in their ability to tell emotional and compelling stories through immersive environments and interactive learning.

Headquartered in Burbank California, with offices in Barcelona, Spain and Dubai, UAE Thinkwell specializes in turnkey design and production of experience based museums and exhibits.  
http://www.thinkwelldesign.com



Unified Field
Unified Field creates interactive media that combines bold ideas, advanced technology and elegant designs which provide audiences with rich sensory experiences that border on magic. Using technology in innovative ways, we transform content and information, through art, into a living experience. Our interactive exhibits, immersive environments, and real-time displays, inspire people to learn, act and think in new ways. We deliver addictive visitor experiences" that visitors return to time and again.
http://www.unifiedfield.com
 

NAME also thanks those who contributed to the Scholarship Fund:


Economics Research Associates (ERA)
Economics Research Associates has assisted leading museums and cultural institutions to understand their audiences and reach sound business decisions for nearly 50 years.  We provide detailed analysis and strategic advice that are tailored to the individual needs and capabilities of each of our clients.  While ERA has been a key part of many high-profile museum building and expansion projects throughout the world, we just as often work with regional and community scale institutions.  
http://www.econres.com



Gecko Group
In today's competitive environment, a captivating visitor experience begins long before museum-goers walk in your door and continues well after they leave. Gecko Group puts your visitors at the heart of our Integrated Museum Services: Identity Design, Marketing and Membership Materials, Exhibit Development and Design, Exhibit Fabrication and Installation, Hands-on Interactives, Environmental and Wayfinding Signage, Education Outreach Materials.
www.geckogroup.com



Haley Sharpe Design
Haley Sharpe Design is a full service design firm with a large range of experience.  We work with clients from master planning through to managing the fabrication installation.  Some of our recent projects in North America include:  Historic Jamestowne Archaearium and Vistor Center, Conoco Museum and Phillips Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Canadian War Museum, Brown vs. Board Visitor Center, Fort McHenry Visitor Center, Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and The Sea.  
http://www.haleysharpe.com



Jeff Kennedy Associates, Inc.
Jeff Kennedy Associates specializes in the planning and design of innovative learning environments for museums, science-technology centers and children’s museums. Our highly collaborative approach allows us to work closely with clients to help them realize their institutional missions and their experiential, interpretive and operational goals. We are one of the few firms in the nation with depth of experience in both themed immersion environments and interactive exhibits that engage visitors in hands-on, bodies-on, senses-on learning.  
http://www.jeffkennedyassociates.com



Malone Design/Fabrication
From inspiration to installation, Malone Design/Fabrication provides complete exhibition development and production services to museums.  Our services include interpretive planning, design, project management, graphics, multimedia design/production, casework, interactives, scenic models, fabrication and installation.  We also produce a line of micro-climate cases, APS.  Malone has approximately 50 years experience designing and producing permanent exhibits for a wide variety of public and private museums and visitor centers.
http://www.maloneinc.com



MBA Design & Display Products Corp.

MBA is the exclusive manufacturer of mila-wall®, the demountable panel system designed to meet museum’s criteria of Form and Function.  mila-wall® is ideal for changing or temporary exhibition spaces, galleries, art fairs and traveling exhibits.  Mila-wall® offers total design flexibility and unsurpassed quality standards.  Truly known and respected as the sustainable solution and top choice of the museum community, as referenced by over 1200 - mila-wall® installations worldwide.
http://www.mba-worldwide.com



Metcalfe Architecture & Design
Metcalfe Architecture & Design is a group of designers and museum professionals in Center City Philadelphia, helping cultural institutions design learning environments.

We value play.  Central to the healthy growth of individuals and families, play is critical to vibrant civic life.  We strive to build playfulness in everything we do. We focus on the end-users – visitors and staffs.  Our projects begin when the punch-list is complete, the doors are open, and people are engaged.
http://www.metarchdesign.com



New Vista Image

New Vista Image is a digital printing company that specializes in design and production of large-format graphics.  We serve the architectural and museum markets with wall murals, way-finding signage, and printing onto rigid substrates such as wood, metal, acrylic, glass, gatorboard, and Sintra.  Our state-of-the-art printing equipment helps make us a leader in the field.  We work with you to create innovative graphic solutions for your displays, exhibits, lobbies, and other public areas.  
http://www.newvistaimage.com



Quatrefoil Associates
Quatrefoil Associates has been providing comprehensive exhibit planning, design and fabrication services to history and science museums, children’s museums and zoos since 1989. Our in-house services include, exhibition planning, 2D and 3D design, content research and writing, interactives development and production, media production, software design and development, custom electronics and controls, specialty fabrication, prototyping and visitor testing, and project management. For more information please visit our website.
http://www.quatrefoil.com



Science Museum of Minnesota

The Science Museum of Minnesota is a large science museum located in downtown St. Paul. It’s regional programs combine research and collection facilities, a public science education center, extensive teacher education and school outreach programs, an Imax Convertible Dome Omnitheater to provide science education to our audience of more than a million people per year.  Our traveling exhibitions and extensive development, design and fabrication services are available to help other museums realize their programming goals.
http://www.smm.org



The Nassal Company
The Nassal Company is recognized worldwide as a leader in the fabrication of immersive environments for museum, hall of fame, leisure and entertainment venues nationwide. Our services include theming, exhibitry, architectural woodwork, and rockwork fabrication and installation.

Each project is personally directed by one of the company’s four owners and supported by more than 100 commercial general construction-trained project managers, field superintendents, master artists, craftsmen, and support personnel who are second to none in the industry.
http://www.nassal.com