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Vashon Heritage Museum

Vashon-Maury Island, Washington

Exhibit Design & Curation

The Vashon Heritage Museum is located on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. This exhibit focuses on the geologic and human history of this fascinating island.

Curation, label text, object selection, interpretive plan, exhibit design, casework & furniture design, technical drawings by Taylor Felt.

Read the Exhibit Brief for the project here

Read the complete Interpretive Plan here (note, this is a large file)

View the fabrication design set here

Year: 2021-2023, 2024 install

Designer: Taylor Felt

Curator: Taylor Felt

2022 Grant Recipient: National Endowment of the Humanities Grant -Public Humanities Projects: Exhibitions Implementation.

The nice quality drawings and interpretation planning shared in the application demonstrate that appropriate concepts will be presented in an organized fashion and that appropriate interpretation techniques will be used to convey humanities content to the audience. The exhibit design takes into account the space limitations at the museum while creatively incorporating multiple surfaces and created space in order to display relevant artifacts and materials.

NEH Grant Reviewer
This is a well-thought out and designed exhibit that identifies five key “turning points” in the island’s history that is both self-reflective and analytical. Although it is essentially local history of a small, somewhat remote place, the applicant clearly connects its history to broader national and global themes. This is really a top-notch effort by a local museum.

NEH Grant Reviewer
We received a large number of strong applications at our January 2022 deadline, and yours was considered to be among the highest quality, congratulations on this achievement! We are very pleased to be able to support this project.

NEH Grant Announcement

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