Everyone Has a Story Worth Telling
I’ve done a lot of thinking about families over the last six years. The origin place, tribal unit, and genetic pool we all spring from. Sometimes we love our families, sometimes we…
A Whirlwind Tour of Gulf Museums, Part 1: ICOM Symposium and Dubai
Global and national events here in the U.S. have really taken a lot out of me over the past few months. One of the many casualties was a reflection on a remarkable…
Museums Can Change Us
Great museums can be transformative. They can teach us about the past, ground us in the present, and drive us to shape the future. The most successful museum experiences and stories pique…
What Stories Will We Tell?
As we head toward the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to share one of my favorite museum videos, The Invention of Thanksgiving. It was produced in 2018 for The National Museum of the…
Wonder Twins? Museum Interpretation & Marketing
Over the course of the past two years, I noticed something interesting. TEA was getting hired by and/or working closely not just with folks in exhibitions, curatorial, and education but also with…
B the Change We Wish to See in the World
When we incorporated TEA three and half years ago, we spent a lot of time thinking about the kind of company we wanted to be… both intellectually and on paper. While the…
Welcome to The Ballantine House
In spring 2022, we paid a social call to our friends at the Newark Museum of Art. We didn't know it at the time, but they were already hard at work on…
The Safarani Sisters – Reflections
You have heard it before, collaboration is the key to success. We founded The Experience Alchemists (TEA) with collaboration in mind. In fact, it is baked into our core values and one…
The Doctor is In
As the daughter of a therapist and an ever curious observer of human behavior, I’ve always gotten sort of a kick out of The Peanuts Lucy’s 5 cent “Psychiatric Help” booth. Lucy’s…