phaeno: Wolfsburg Germany

Ansel Associates creates exciting, effective content for science centers. Our capabilities include: master planning, architectural consulting, exhibition planning and budgeting, interactive exhibit design, and management for exhibit prototyping, fabrication and installation.

What we can provide for you:

We offer real experience in the management and operation of science centers. Few exhibition design firms have staff with high-level science museum management experience. 

We have a proprietary staffing and operations model that is invaluable in testing assumptions about staffing levels and operational expenses.
We have broad knowledge of the current state of the field.  We have visited, photographically documented and to varying degrees, evaluated the buildings and exhibitions of many science centers worldwide, including museums in the US, Europe and a few in Asia. 
We understand intimately the operational necessities of a science center and can effectively communicate these to the architects and engineers engaged in designing the building.   
We have the cost estimating and contract negotiation skills, backed up by ample experience, to accurately predict the costs of exhibition design, fabrication and installation.
We have demonstrated success in managing multi-million dollar exhibitions from start to finish – with a record of on time and below budget completions.
We know a tremendous amount about how electro/mechanical exhibits work – we understand literally the ‘nuts & bolts’ of interactive exhibit design because we have invented them, built them, tested them, repaired and refined them.  And not just one, or two but more than one hundred different hands-on exhibits: exhibits that have been used by hundreds of thousands of visitors over the years. 
Our experience allows us to anticipate problems and to prepare for or prevent them.

 
 
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