Hilferty Museum Planning & Exhibit Design

02/05/2019

Interiors + Sources magazine has named the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum among the most impactful African American focused museums for its design, just in time for February’s African American history month. Follow the link to read more.

From Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., five African American museums are preserving history and culture through design and architecture.

11/26/2018

Check out this great video about our newest project!

It is now located on Main Street in Oak Ridge and it will operate on a limited schedule until it's grand opening on October 18.

11/26/2018

Have you seen our latest museum project?

Hilferty is excited to celebrate the opening of the NEW American Museum of Science & Energy. This challenging project fast-tracked the move and re-design of the existing museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, featuring the latest exhibit and technology available, fitting for a museum about ground

11/26/2018

What a great post by our friends at Exhibit Concepts! Projects like this require a great team, and we're so glad to work with them again and again!

When the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) wanted to create a new museum to replace their existing institution, they had just one year to complete the project. It was going to be challenging, but the team “took the dare” to design, fabricate and build out the museum in one year.

11/26/2018

We're very proud to share this news!

It’s been a great year to celebrate the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Our exhibit design won an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History.

11/19/2018

The awards just keep coming in! This Little Light of Mine, the three-story, interactive multi-media sculpture at the heart of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, won the Silver award for Best Museum Environment in the 2018 Experience Design & Technology Awards.

The editors of Event Marketer announce the winners of the 2018 Experience Design & Technology Awards, the world’s largest—and only—recognition program

10/19/2018

Hilferty was honored to be a part of the SEMC conference in Jackson, Mississippi this October. Key events were held at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Hilferty helped to sponsor an evening reception, proud that hundreds of museum professionals from across the south eastern states could witne

08/27/2018

Several important points here! Good planning is crucial for making sure a project is a success.

The investment is comparatively small, and it can tell executives if a major project will fly or flop. We’ve all heard stories – and maybe even borne first-person witness – to the exciting new exhibit concept that debuts…and flops. OrRead More ›

08/17/2018

Andy Warhol once said, ‘My idea of a good picture is one of a famous person doing something unfamous.’ It’s a sentiment that couldn’t be more apparent in a trove of over 130,000 photographic exposures made by the artist from 1976 until his death in 198...

08/13/2018

Have you checked out our news recently? Be sure to visit our website for the latest articles featuring our projects. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is being considered a prime example of how museums are important platforms for social change.

A sober article that summarizes the social impact of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. "The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum offers no closure…The story it tells is still in progress: from 1960s Jackson, to Ferguson, Mo., Charlottesville, Va., and the 2017 White House. That the new museum sa

08/08/2018

Barnes Foundation uses intelligent machines to offer new ways of interpreting art collections

08/06/2018

The Smithsonian and VR exhibits... definitely aspirational!

Virtual reality helped me appreciate the art of Burning Man. Inside a VR exhibit, I stood next to a statue of a woman, and the 55-feet-tall work of art towered over me as I stood on the sands of a …