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: 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: Carnegie Museum of Art
Project: Teenie Harris Website & Interactive
Night Kitchen Interactive partnered with the Carnegie Museum of Art to create the companion website and online interactive for the exhibition Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story. The site details the life and career of Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris, and features an interactive experience that enables visitors to browse the nearly 1,000 photographs featured in the exhibition.
Client: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Project: American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges
This educational site provides activities, multimedia and information for students to discover the integral role of environmental education and preservation in the cultural heritage of American Indian people.
Client: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Project: Word Trade Interactive Kiosk
Through this touchscreen interactive, visitors are challenged to uncover how the names of traded goods found their way into different languages as a result of the intercultural exchanges that occurred along the Silk Road.
Client: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Project: Country Dog Gentlemen Mobile Game
The Country Dog Gentlemen are on the move once again, encouraging visitors to see and think about art from a fun, insightful, and exploratory perspective through a mobile gallery game.
Client: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Project: History of Vaccines
The History of Vaccines website aims to make the history of vaccines compelling and relevant to people’s lives today by providing context and understanding of how vaccines work and the role that they’ve played in human health.
Client: Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
Project: Discover the Real George Washington
This interactive timeline that unveils the many facets of America’s first President – statesman, military leader, family man, visionary entrepreneur, and slave owner. Night Kitchen Interactive has developed the timeline as a companion to the traveling exhibition, Discovering the Real George Washington: A View from Mount Vernon.
Client: The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Project: UMMA Dialogtable Movies
Employing a collaborative storytelling approach, Night Kitchen Interactive developed 32 short movies for the museum’s DialogTable installation, bringing together a wide range of voices in a thought-provoking, creative manner. In addition, a companion website was developed to integrate social media into this special exhibit.
