• A gallery with brightly lit landscape imagery in the background and a canoe with oars in a display case in the foreground.
    Oregon Historical Society

The Design Minds provides interpretive planning, exhibit and graphic design, and content development services. We advocate for an inclusive process that engages diverse stakeholder and community groups.

Exhibit, Graphic + Experience Design

Interpretive Master Planning

Fabrication Administration + Installation

Scriptwriting + Editing

Community Engagement + Visitor Surveys

Environmental Graphics, Waysides, + Signage

Content Management (Artifacts + Images)

Content Development + Management

Albuquerque Museum | Albuquerque, NM

Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington, VA

Capital Jewish Museum | Washington, DC

The Columbus Museum | Columbus, GA

Eisenhower Presidential Library | Abilene, KS

History Annapolis | Annapolis, MD

Holland Energy Park | Holland, MI

Loudon Water | Ashburn, VA

McLeod Plantation | Charleston, SC

Museum of Jewish Heritage | New York, NY

Museum of Mississippi History | Jackson, MS

Museum of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT

National Archives | Multiple Sites

National Guard Memorial Museum | Washington, DC

National Inventors Hall of Fame | Alexandria, VA

National Library of Medicine | Bethesda, MD

National Park Service | Multiple Sites

Newseum | Washington, DC

Oregon Historical Society | Portland, OR

Supreme Court of the United Sates | Washington, DC

Loudon Water | Ashburn, VA

U.S. Army Basic Training Museum | Fort Jackson, SC

U.S. Federal District Courthouses | Multiple, Sites

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services | Multiple Sites

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC

University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN

WV Division of Cultural and History | Wheeling, WV

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum | Staunton, VA

Wyoming State Museum | Cheyenne, WY

2023 NAI Media Awards, 1st Place Interior Exhibits | B&O Railroad Museum

2023 NAI Media Awards, 1st Place Accessibility | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

2022 Freeman Tilden Award, Excellence in Interpretation | Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

2020 NAI Media Awards, 1st Place Interior Exhibits | Cuyahoga Valley National Park

2020 AAM Exhibit Awards, Special Achievement Informed by Community Voices | Oregon Historical Society

Thoughtful Interpretive Planning + Exhibit Design

10364 Main Street Fairfax, Virginia 22030

703-246-9241

info@thedesignminds.com