Quatrefoil Associates is proud to announce that, effective immediately, Michael Burns, Bernhard Mueller and Roula Tsapalas have joined the ownership team and are now Principals of the firm, which will mark its 30th anniversary in October. Roula, Michael and Bernhard have made tremendous contributions to the growth of Quatrefoil over […]

Nestled in the quiet foothills and mesas of the east side of northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountain lies the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), an area with seventeen “sites of importance” at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as well as thirteen sites in downtown Los Alamos. The County of […]

By: Amy Kehs You probably know the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. You may immediately think of Dayton, Ohio, their hometown and site of their bicycle shop, or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where they accomplished their historic first flight in 1902. College Park, Maryland was also an important site for […]

For much of the last month, the Quatrefoil team has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our work for the Museum of Boulder in Colorado. The permanent exhibit, the Boulder Experience Gallery, opened to the public the weekend of Nov. 17 and the initial reviews from local […]

The Textile Museum’s all-purpose Learning Center Museums increasingly cite flexibility as a key requirement for their exhibition spaces. They define flexibility in a variety of ways including more adaptive interior space, updateable content, and more durable, interactive and multipurpose exhibits. Quatrefoil’s recent work for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. […]

Michael Burns Today, when people in museums ask us to design a “permanent” gallery our response is different than it once was. “Permanence” is a term people use to indicate resilience, or longevity, but permanence, in an age of rapid change is no longer a matter of simply building sturdy, […]

Michael Burns How many museums out there with participatory spaces designed around “innovation” actually believe one of your visitors will invent an entirely new concept, or method, or product in your space? I’d guess you’d say that’s not your intention. Many of today’s science and tech museums push the idea […]

Roula Tsapalas There is a wide range of strategies for interpreting history. Some historic sites spell it all out for us by reproducing it. Others offer only glimpses of the past leaving the visitor to piece together the clues. History is present all around us – you just have to […]

Roula Tsapalas Compiled from Dictionary websites : allowing or relating to continuous two-way transfer of information between a user and the central point of a communication system, such as a computer or television. (of two or more persons, forces, etc) acting upon or in close relation with each other; interacting. […]

Michelle Ivette Gomez The annual American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference brings together museum workers from around the world on an annual basis to discuss the state of the museum sector, participate in professional development sessions, and engage in dialogue about important issues affecting museum workers and museum visitors today. […]