Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions

Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions

Instructor: Saul Sopoci Drake
Course Date: March 4, 2024
Cost: $400
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Ever wanted to know how to develop a traveling exhibition?

If so, Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions is for you. This class will be focused on providing you with the nuts and bolts on how to develop and tour traveling exhibitions. We will be delving into all stages of the traveling exhibit development process and tips and strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for these types of exhibitions.

The topics covered in this class are multifaceted and will be focused on the different stages of the development and tour of traveling exhibitions. Traveling exhibitions can take on a variety of sizes and forms. Participants will be encouraged to generate and refine their own ideas for traveling exhibitions that fit their respective institutions.

    Learning Objectives:
    Class participants will learn methods and strategies for Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions:

    • Concepts
    • Exhibition Development Process
    • Contracts
    • Preparing the Exhibition for Travel
    • Upkeep
    • Last Venue and Dispersal

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Required Text:

Rebecca Buck and Jean Gilmore, On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions, 2nd Ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 116 pages.

Museum Study students can take advantage of a special offer from Rowman & Littlefield to purchase the book at a discount.


Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions addresses the American Association for State and Local History's Audience and Interpretation Standards.


Comments from participants:

The course was extremely informative. My institution has tried traveling exhibitions in the past so it was great to see what we did "right" and what we can improve on.

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