The latest news on our company, current hot projects, speaking engagements, and insights on the latest trends.
We’ve partnered with the Smithsonian Institution Archives to create a new website centered on presenting the Institution’s archival resources and online collections while providing multiple opportunities to showcase SIA’s expertise through dedicated areas for exhibits and educational materials.
We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User Generated World, a new publication from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage that explores new ways for museums and cultural institutions to approach historical authenticity in the age of social media and online dialogue. The book features an in-depth interview of Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive, by book editor Bill Adair, Director of the Heritage Philadelphia Program at the Pew.
The redesigned Monticello.org website that Night Kitchen developed for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has received a Best in Class award in the Community category from the Interactive Media Awards.
The PhilaPlace website, developed by Night Kitchen Interactive in collaboration with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, received a Best in Class award in the Arts/Culture category from the Interactive Media Awards.
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.
Created for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, this new website documents four American Indian communities, the environmental issues facing the four tribes and their responses to those challenges.
Night Kitchen Interactive has partnered with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to adapt the History of Vaccines site for mobile devices. The mobile site will continue to inform audiences through timelines, activities, articles and multimedia resources, in addition to providing up-to-date access to the History of Vaccines blog.
Night Kitchen’s Director of Learning Strategies, Stacey Mann, presented a session titled "Walk the Walk: Using Learning Theory in the Exhibit Design Process" at last month’s AAM conference. The productive session was a great success and was very well received. Presenters challenged attendees to consider various types of learners when programming exhibits, encouraged exhibit designers and museum educators to communicate with one another, and explored methods for using educational theory to inform the exhibit design process. The presentation also provided attendees with practical steps to help identify audiences, learning goals, and achieve buy-in from stakeholders and decision makers at their institutions.
Night Kitchen’s principals Matthew Fisher and Dan Kuetemeyer facilitated a fun, informative presentation and hands-on activity at the AAM 2011 conference in Houston last month. “Engaging Children in Objects and Art Using High-Tech to No-Tech Tools”, was presented in collaboration with Julie Charles and Erica Gangsei of SFMOMA, and Sharon Shaffer, Ph.D., of the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center. Together, the team compared and contrasted the SFMOMA’s new mobile game and the Early Enrichment Center’s object-based facilitated approach to engaging children with art in a museum setting.
The Country Dog Gentlemen are on the move once again, and will soon be available as an iPhone app. SFMOMA’s mobile Gallery Game features the colorful canines Dingo and Collie, who encourage visitors of all ages to explore the museum’s collection through fun and thought-provoking activities. The activities connect families to the works of art and to each other, transforming a museum visit into an art-filled adventure.
