Paul Orselli

18 Years of ExhibiTricks! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

18 Years of ExhibiTricks!

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Back to Bulgaria! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Back to Bulgaria!

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Beyond Buttons, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Analog. A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Beyond Buttons, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Analog.

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Feeling Flush With Success -- Making Museum Bathrooms Into Exhibition Spaces A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Feeling Flush With Success -- Making Museum Bathrooms Into Exhibition Spaces

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Designing Instagram Moments That Actually Mean Something A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Designing Instagram Moments That Actually Mean Something

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What Fixing Broken Exhibits Has Taught Me About Smart Design A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

What Fixing Broken Exhibits Has Taught Me About Smart Design

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Can AI Be Your Museum Brainstorming Buddy?

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"Stealing" Ideas from Everyone. What Apple Stores, Airports, and Playgrounds Can Teach Museums About Visitor Experience. A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

"Stealing" Ideas from Everyone. What Apple Stores, Airports, and Playgrounds Can Teach Museums About Visitor Experience.

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The Hands-On Toolbox: Physical Tools Every Museum Exhibit Developer Should Own A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

The Hands-On Toolbox: Physical Tools Every Museum Exhibit Developer Should Own

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How Every Museum Can Be More Like a Children's Museum A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

How Every Museum Can Be More Like a Children's Museum

#IA25 #InterActivity2025 #ChildrensMuseums

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10 No-Cost (or Low-Cost) Ideas to Spark Big Impact in Your Museum A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

10 No-Cost (or Low-Cost) Ideas to Spark Big Impact in Your Museum

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Narrative Struggle A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Narrative Struggle

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My Brain For Rent

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How to Not “Obey in Advance”—Actions for Resisting Authoritarianism - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly These are not normal times for nonprofits and movements. But these times also provide an opportunity to recommit to mission and advance the values that we hold dear.

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Japanese American National Museum Stands Up for DEI The institution said it would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of widespread government funding cuts and pressures.

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Sharing for Resistance A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Sharing for Resistance

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YouTube video by Paul Orselli Workshop Inc A Conversation about: Inclusion, Power, and Influence in Cultural Organizations.

Join Amparo Leyman Pino and Piotr Bienkowski for a super-timely and thought-provoking conversation about how everyone in museums and allied cultural organizations—whatever their role or position—has power, agency, and influence to provoke and drive inclusion.

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Cool Online Tool: European Word Translator A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Cool Online Tool: European Word Translator

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Signs of the Times: Hopeful Strategies A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Hopeful Strategies -- what museums and cultural institutions are doing to counter the backward notions of "anti-diversity," for example, that other museums might then adapt to their own situations.

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Like A Business ... A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Like A Business ...

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Thinking Outside the (Cardboard) Box! A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Thinking Outside the (Cardboard) Box!

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FLOW – Dream Well Studio Flow is an animated film by Gints Zilbalodis.

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Flow is a wonder. Highly recommended!

Creative Inspiration: River Runner Global A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Creative Inspiration: River Runner Global

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The National Council of Nonprofits maintains an updated list of recent executive orders and their potential impacts.

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Cool Online Tool: Mostly Public Domain Image Search A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

Cool Online Tool: Mostly Public Domain Image Search

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2 Little Words A museum exhibit design blog from Paul Orselli and POW! Tricks of the trade, useful resources, and exhibit-y thoughts for designers and museum folks.

2 Little Words

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An engaging video conversation with Lindsay Bartholomew, author and Exhibit Content and Experience Developer at the MIT Museum, about representation in Children's Books AND Museums!

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