History

PhilaPlace: Sharing Stories from the City of Neighborhoods

Client: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Project: PhilaPlace: Sharing Stories from the City of Neighborhoods

Explore Philadelphia’s rich history and culture through PhilaPlace – an interactive website featuring over 150 stories enriched with a growing number of historical and contemporary photos, audio narratives, and video interviews with local residents and community organizations.

Star-Spangled Banner Interactive Exhibit

Client: The Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Project: Star-Spangled Banner Interactive Exhibit

The Star-Spangled Banner online exhibit transforms this cherished 200 year-old artifact into a platform for visitor participation, encouraging visitors to explore the story behind the flag that inspired the national anthem.

East End Stories interactive exhibit

Client: Parrish Art Museum
Project: East End Stories

Designed for the Parrish Art Museum, East End Stories invites visitors to explore the connections between the art, artwork, and locations of the storied East End artists’ community. By integrating an innovative mapping feature, Night Kitchen Interactive created an engaging and informative experience that encourages exploration of over 1600 images.

Five Freedoms

Client: Five Freedoms
Project: The Five Freedoms Project

As both a resource-filled website and social networking platform, the Five Freedom’s Project is a vibrant community of educators, students dedicated to First Amendment rights and freedoms.

Seize the Vote!

Client: The National Constitution Center
Project: Seize the Vote!

Designed for the National Constitution Center, Seize the Vote! is an interactive online game that allows participants to explore the complex and profoundly consequential history of voting rights in the United States.

Franklin’s Interactive Lifetime

Client: The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Project: Franklin’s Interactive Lifetime

Night Kitchen Interactive created a rich media interactive timeline of Franklin’s life and his achievements. This highly visual exhibit includes games, activities, and animated stories that bring this founding father and the compelling themes of his legacy to life.

Remixin’

Client: The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary and The Rosenbach Museum and Library
Project: The Franklin Remixed

In this online exhibit remix created by middle-school students, visitors can view a rich media slideshow narrated by the students themselves, explore the exhibition artifacts and their stories, or view a gallery of artifacts. In addition, the students created their own pages, in which they relate their individual reflections on the exhibit through text, image and voice.

Lincoln’s Crossroads

Client: The National Constitution Center
Project: Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads

Teaming up with Lincoln scholars and NCC curators, Night Kitchen created this award-winning online exhibit. Hosted by an animated talking Lincoln appearing in a series of fully-realized historical settings, the visitor is invited to act in the role of Presidential advisor.

Centuries of Citizenship

Client: The National Constitution Center
Project: Centuries of Citizenship

When the National Constitution Center wanted to transform its “We the People” exhibit into an online feature, Night Kitchen Interactive created a vibrant and participatory narrative experience that immerses the visitor in the sights, sounds, and headlines of the evolving story of the US Constitution.

Splendor of 18th Century Rome

Client: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Project: Splendor of 18th Century Rome

Night Kitchen Interactive brings 21st century teaching tools to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition to help visitors understand the grandeur of 18th century Rome, once the artistic and cultural capital of the western world.