Client: Krannert Art Museum
Project: African Art iPad Interactives

Night Kitchen recently developed a suite of iPad interactive kiosks for the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with the re-opening of their African art gallery. The iPads feature videos that combine historical and contemporary narratives in order to reveal a complex and nuanced history of African art objects appropriated and reinterpreted over time.

Client: Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent
Project: iPad Interactives

The Philadelphia History Museum is showcasing the treasures from their permanent collection in their newest galleries alongside interactive media installations created by Night Kitchen Interactive.

Client: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Project: Alchemical Quest MonkeyBook Interactive

We’ve recently partnered with the Chemical Heritage Foundation to create an interactive for their latest exhibition, The Alchemical Quest. Visitors can explore animated reproductions of two rare alchemical books featured in the exhibit using a new type of hardware known as the “MonkeyBook”, which mimics the shape of a physical book and uses rear projection hardware and gesture recognition software to detect a visitor’s movements and actions.

Client: Asian Art Museum
Project: Educational Portal

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum recently partnered with Night Kitchen Interactive to create an educational portal that provides students, teachers and researchers with a searchable, filterable collection of online resources including curricular materials, museum objects, and multimedia resources.

Client: Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Project: Preparing for the Oath

The Preparing for the Oath interactive website was created in partnership with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), to provide an engaging and participatory means to prepare for the U.S. Citizenship Test by exploring civics and American history.

Client: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Project: Website Redesign

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History sought to redesign their web presence in order to provide teachers, students and affiliates access to essays, primary sources, programs, video lectures and more through an intuitive and sophisticated website.

Client: Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent
Project: City Stories Media Installation

The Philadelphia History Museum has emerged from a three-year hiatus and opened its doors, showcasing the first of many exhibits that reflect the institution’s fresh approach to audience engagement and local history. City Stories, an interactive orientation gallery, introduces visitors to the newly-renovated museum through a compelling mix of historical artifacts, insightful narratives, and local stories of everyday Philadelphians.

Client: Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Project: Three Online Exhibits Explore Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello

Three online exhibits interpret plantation slavery at Monticello—the home of Thomas Jefferson and his family, as well as enslaved individuals, hired workers, and indentured servants. Drawing on oral history interviews, archaeological evidence, and historical research, these websites present 3D renderings of buildings, interactive maps, dynamically linked profiles of the individuals who lived and worked at Monticello, and family trees of their relatives and descendants, engaging visitors in paradoxical issues of slavery and liberty.

Client: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Project: How Things Fly Interactive Website

The How Things Fly website provides activities, videos, imagery and information as an online accompaniment to the physical exhibition on view at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Client: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Project: Osteoware Website Design and Development

The Osteoware website enables researchers and scientists to find information, access downloads, and connect with an online community of researchers who use the software to document and analyze human skeletal remains.