The Omnimuseum Project: Free the Museum!
The Peale is excited to partner with Quatrefoil Associates‘ Michael Burns (co-creator of the Omnimuseum Project) to encourage educators, designers, and museum professionals to free the museum! Quatrefoil is powering the new “Lab at The Peale,” a platform for innovating the museum experience. The Lab is a think tank and safe space for play and experimentation in the cultural sector. We hope you’ll sign up for Peale Lab Notes to see how this exciting partnership evolves.
Museums deliver powerful experiences that enrich our lives. Whether the focus is science, history, culture, or nature, museums provide frameworks for understanding and engaging in the world around us. So, what happens when people who create museum experiences apply their expertise to the everyday world? This is the question that led to The Omnimuseum Project, a non-profit 501(c)(3) that draws upon the skills and creativity of designers, educators, and subject specialists to transform things, places, and phenomena that surround us into informal learning and enrichment experiences.
Founded in 2012, our initiatives are centered around catalyzing the activation of the “museum experience” in everyday settings. We are developing ways for museums and other cultural and educational institutions to serve the broader public, and gain presence in real-world places that correspond to their work.
About Quatrefoil
Quatrefoil creates award-winning exhibitions and accessible interactives for museums, science centers, zoos and aquariums, historic places, cultural sites, and visitor attractions.
Quatrefoil’s collaborative approach centers community voices to create inclusive experiences that connect visitors’ stories with collections and promote participation in programs. Quatrefoil designs take the anxiety out of investing in exhibits. The team builds flexible solutions, tailored to your team’s capacity, to make updates easy and keep exhibitions fresh and fluid.