Registration Form What You Will Learn • How to use a toolkit of exhibit ideas FULL NAME that will encourage curiosity, surprise, and wonder at your . TITLE • How to communicate more effectively about exhibit design, so you can have a positive ORGANIZATION influence on your museum’s design process.

ADDRESS • How to develop a distinctive and memora- ble flavor for your museum. CITY STATE/PROVINCE • How to get people talking about your muse- um through good exhibit design. COUNTRY ZIP Who Should Attend PHONE • , administrators, educators EMAIL • Staff from considering new ACM Member: ❑ $275 Nonmember: ❑ $350 exhibits or expansion Payment Information • Staff from emerging children’s museums

❑ Enclosed is my check payable in USD to Association of • Staff from other types of museums interested Children’s Museums in new exhibit design strategies.

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❍ Visa ❍ MasterCard ❍ American Express ❍ Discover Hotel Designing CARD NUMBER ACM has negotiated a special rate for workshop attendees at the SpringHill Suites Denver for Adventure SECURITY CODE EXPIRATION DATE Downtown at MSU Denver, for $174 per night (single or double), plus applicable taxes. State NAME AS IT APPEARS ON CARD that you are with the Association of Children’s Workshop Special needs and requests—diet, accessibility, etc. Museums to receive the group rate. Book in (please specify): the block by Friday, May 12, 2017. Cancella- tion policy: 24 hours advance notice. June 5–6, 2017 Phone reservations: (502) 583-2552 Note: Complimentary hot breakfast is included Return completed registration form Children’s Museum of Denver with the group rate at the hotel. at Marsico Campus with payment by Friday, May 19, 2017 2121 Children’s Museum Drive By fax: 703.224.3099 Denver, CO 80211 By email: [email protected] By mail: Association of Children’s Museums 2711 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 600 Arlington, VA 22202 Designing for 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Adventure Workshop Explore the Museum Key Insights and Questions Michael Yankovich, CMD To cap off the day, participants will be asked This design workshop asks: How can we make Jonathan Goldstein, CMD to share their key insights and any questions exhibits that spark curiosity and hold a child’s On guided tours, participants will examine that linger. attention? Exhibits that plant the seeds of exhibits that strive for adventure, seeing in surprise and wonder? That entice a family to the details of real exhibits how this can be 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. return again and again and keep exploring? done. Participants will be asked to document Optional No Host Dinner For the exhibits team at the Children’s Museum their observations, thoughts, and questions. of Denver, the idea of adventure encapsulates After the tour, these notes will be examined Tuesday, June 6 its answer to these central questions of exhibit for themes and qualities that define experi- Breakfast at the . Unlike other workshops, this immer- ences that beckon repeat visitation. sive program includes a design —an 9:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m. opportunity to collaboratively design an exhibit, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 a.m. Final Activity get your hands dirty, and gain feedback from A Conversation about Designing for Participants will engage in a team-building, colleagues. Adventure, plus Q&A creative problem-solving, and multi-variable Jonathan Goldstein, CMD activity that can be used at their own museums. Sunday, June 4 Kyle Talbott, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arrival and Hotel Check-In The Children’s Museum of Denver will 9:45 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Visit the Children’s Museum of Denver at describe its design process and strategies. Completion of Exhibit Models Marsico Campus (open 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.) The process helps designers generate and Participants will finish their exhibit models and by showing your workshop registration confir- evaluate exhibits with a sense of adventure prepare to present to the group. mation for free admission. and helps administrators, educators, and designers work together productively. They 10:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m. 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. will explain the underlying theory and its basis Design Presentations – Part 1 Optional No Host Drinks and cover key questions of exhibit design. Each team will give a short presentation of their exhibit design and receive feedback Monday, June 5 12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. from the group. Breakfast at the Hotel Lunch 11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Workshop will be held in the Skyline Gallery 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Lunch at the Children’s Museum of Denver. Designing an Exhibit 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. With guidance from museum staff, partici- 12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m. Welcome and Framing the Workshop pants will design an exhibit with the spirit of Design Presentations – Part 2 Victoria Garvin, ACM adventure for a typical multi-purpose muse- Continuation of presentations and feedback. Michael Yankovich, Children’s Museum of um . Working in teams with colleagues Denver at Marsico Campus (CMD) from other institutions, participants will use 1:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Through an interactive exercise, attendees the design strategies, and begin producing a Closing and Final Thoughts will reflect on their experiences of adventure. small-scale model of the exhibit. Materials will These initial recollections serve as a starting be provided. point for the sessions that follow.