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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Museum Design: Who is this Man? A photograph caught my eye today. It shows a man on the roof of a men’s lavatory in a California State Park. Why is he there? Why is he in black and white? Is he spying on someone through the skylight? ...View more

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Museums: An Outpouring in Paper and Pencil - Visitors to Calif Academy Get to the Point on Climate Change For the new California Academy of Sciences, my company, Cinnabar Inc., produced the exhibit “Altered State,” which focuses on climate change and California....View more

Saturday, January 03, 2009 The Fine Art of Science Exhibit Writing Remember the last time you went to a science museum and actually read the exhibits? Perhaps not many think about who writes those words on the panels about biology and botany and astronomy and geology. That’s entirely appropriate because what’s really important is the message. The goal of a good exhibit writer is to convey it in language that engages interest and excites inquiry among the very diverse audiences that visit museums and science centers....View more

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 This Is - and Isn’t - Your Grandfather’s Science Museum Update from Jonathan Katz, CEO of Cinnabar, and executive producer of 35,000 square feet of new exhibits for the Kimball Natural History Museum at the new California Academy of Sciences....View more