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Win an Experience Design Workshop!
We want to help YOU activate your space and engage with visitors in a whole new way! Stop by BOOTH 1022 at AAM next week. Just drop off your business card for a chance to win a FREE workshop from the Quatrefoil team. We bring 30+ years of experience to the table and...
Reuse It! Green Tips for Earth Month
For Annapolis Maritime Museum, we utilized existing materials (oyster crates and shells) into an exhibit depicting instead of constructing with new building materials. Like many of you, we're concerned about how everyday (and long-term) decisions contribute to the...
The Peale, Quatrefoil Associates Announce Collaboration, Launch “The Lab”
Partnership To Yield Research, Evaluation, and Prototyping of Next-Level Museum, Exhibition Experiences Baltimore, MD (February 16, 2023)—Today, The Peale and Quatrefoil Associates announced “The Lab,” a new collaboration through which Baltimore’s Community Museum...
Visit Quatrefoil at 2022 AAM MuseumExpo in Boston
We’re looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues and making new connections at the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Boston this week. Quatrefoil will be in Booth 1132 in Exhibit Hall A all-day Friday, May 20, and Saturday, May 21. Come by to visit, catch...
Sept 2021 Project News
EXHIBITION AWARD Quatrefoil’s work for the Virtual Science Center exhibition “Reinventing Reality: Explore the Science of Virtual Reality” received the Gold Award in the AR, VR, Mixed Reality category of the 2021 MUSE Awards. The American Alliance of Museum (AAM) MUSE...
Meet Quatrefoil’s New Leadership Team
Quatrefoil Associates announces a major milestone in the exhibition/experience design firm’s three-decades-long history. Effective immediately, a new leadership team takes control of the firm’s management and operations. Michael W. Burns, Roula Tsapalas and Bernhard...
Old West Comes to Life at Desert Caballeros Western Museum
From The Wickenburg (Ariz.) Sun By Scott Turner Sun Editor “Hello there, I didn’t hear you come in,” an Old West storekeeper says, welcoming visitors to “the best general store around.” He asks visitors if they just arrived from the train and suggests they can stay at...
New Ways Museums Can Respond to the Challenges of Our Times
Quatrefoil is coming up on two anniversaries. One — celebrating our 32nd year in business — arrives this fall. It’s an opportunity to express our great appreciation to clients (past and current) who have made our work both an honor and a source of pride. The second...
Experience Design in a Post-Pandemic World
Quatrefoil Design Director and Firm Principal Michael Burns recently presented a Flash Session on "Designing Museum Experiences in a Post-Pandemic World” at the Texas Association of Museums 2020 VIRTUAL conference. Click on the link below to watch Michael’s...
Quatrefoil and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dear friends and colleagues, We are going through an event that is unprecedented in our lifetimes and across our industry. The aftereffects of this pandemic — physical, financial, emotional, cultural — are going to be felt for years to come. Quatrefoil has taken...