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Big Picture: Erie Canal Bicentennial ft. Brook Anderson

New exhibit celebrating the Erie Canal Bicentennial opens at Canalside

‘Waterway of Change’ opens at Canalside

‘Waterway of Change’ opens at Canalside

‘Water of Change’ Erie Canal exhibit opens at Canalside in Buffalo

Niagara Gazette

New exhibit provides ‘richer, more connected understanding’ of Canalside

National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago, the first of its kind, with residents’ stories at its heart

Chicago Tribune

Why We Need the Nation’s First Public Housing Museum

Changing the narrative: National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago

[VIDEO] National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago

New Museum Examines the History of American Public Housing—and the Stories of Its Residents

Smithsonian Magazine

New museum dedicated to public housing opens in Chicago

A National Public Housing Museum opens

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library under construction more than a century after his death

CBS Saturday Morning

‘Do Good’ Has a Nice Ring to It

Local Projects to design exhibition spaces for National Juneteenth Museum

The Architect's Newspaper

What will the inside of National Juneteenth Museum look like? New images revealed

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Award-Winning Exhibition Designer Selected for Fort Worth’s National Juneteenth Museum

Dallas Innovates

Opal Lee marked her 98th birthday by seeing the interior design of the Juneteenth Museum

Dallas Morning News

Opal Lee celebrates birthday with new renderings of National Juneteenth Museum

Fort Worth Report

First look at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s massive new hospital

Atlanta Constitution-Journal

New Richmond institute to examine how slavery helped build modern America

Washington Post

Inside L’Oréal’s high-tech Paris headquarters

Le Visionnaire is Fast Co’s #1 Workplace Design Worldwide

Fast Company Innovation By Design

The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Opens in New York

Architectural Record

Dassai Opens Its Sprawling Sake Brewery in the Hudson Valley

One of Japan’s Top Sake Producers Now Has a Brewery in New York

After major makeover, Columbus Museum will reopen lighter and brighter

Atlanta Constitution-Journal

Major interactive attraction announced for Canalside as part of Erie Canal bicentennial

Ahead of Erie Canal Bicentennial, Governor Hochul Announces Plans for New Visitors Experience at Canalside in Buffalo

Governor Kathy Hochul

Welcome to COMU: Columbus Museum reopens Saturday, May 4

Take a look inside Columbus Museum’s ‘transformative change’ after $25 million renovation

Ledger Enquirer

Take a look inside Columbus Museum’s ‘transformative change’ after $25 million renovation

Ledger Enquirer

Redesigned attraction at World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta explores connections between scent, memory, and emotion

World of Coca-Cola unveils new immersive Scent Discovery exhibit

Rough Draft Atlanta

New exhibit in Manhattan tells Holocaust story. Its intended audience? Children

L’Oréal Inaugurates Le Visionnaire Creative Employee Hub in Paris

Women's Wear Daily

L’Oréal Inaugurates Le Visionnaire Creative Employee Hub in Paris

Global Cosmetic Industry

L’Oréal’s New Paris Hub Has an AI ‘Visionary Wall’—Here’s How it Works

Louisiana Civil Rights Museum to open in New Orleans

How Local Projects translated the horrors of the Holocaust into a kid-friendly museum experience

Inside L’Oréal’s New 45,208-Square-Foot Innovation Center in Paris

A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them

Ten Must-See 2023 Exhibitions From SEGD Members

First Bank of the United States is to be transformed into an interactive museum

First Bank of the United States to become Philadelphia’s newest museum

Landmark First Bank building in Philadelphia to be renovated and will become a museum

Philadelphia’s First Bank of U.S. to re-open as museum in 2026

Philadelphia Inquirer

First Bank of the United States

Modern and ancient coexist in $50 million Tower of David renovation

Times of Israel

In Museums About Horrors, Children Learn of the Heroes

Button up! Garment District’s iconic button gets new threads

New York Inquisitor

See the brand-new giant button sculpture that was just unveiled in the Garment District

A clever redesign saved NYC’s iconic Button and Needle sculpture from collapse

Great Southern Land examines the relationship between Australian people and place through interactive installations

The iconic Garment District button and needle is getting a redesign

The Garment District’s Iconic Button & Needle Sculpture Is Getting A Redesign

The Garment District’s iconic button & needle kiosk will be redesigned

Button Up! Garment District’s Famous Sculpture to Get a New Pop Art Look

Finally bold and imaginative: the first major redesign of the National Museum of Australia is a triumph

The Conversation

A More Sustainable Experience Design Industry

National Museum of Australia unveils exciting new gallery redevelopments

The National Tribune

National Museum of Australia launches two new galleries — Great Southern Land and children’s Discovery Centre

The National Museum of Australia’s new gallery is all about our environmental connection to this Great Southern Land

LP to Design Exhibits for Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

Groundbreaking of a new visitor center at Stonewall National Monument to kick off NYC Pride

The Architect's Newspaper

A Stonewall Visitor Center Will Celebrate L.G.B.T.Q. History

The New York Times

MOSH hires 9/11 memorial designer for Northbank museum

A School From the 1860s Is Transformed into a Museum of Language

Metropolis Magazine

Local Projects hired by MOSH for new museum

Jacksonville Business Journal

MOSH hires 9/11 memorial designer for Northbank museum

WJCT Jacksonville

Stream Jake Barton’s Keynote Speech at AAM 2022

Tulsa Is in the Midst of a Massive Cultural Renaissance

Architectural Digest

Jake Barton to Give Innovation Keynote at #AAM2022 in Boston

Tulsa Is in the Midst of a Massive Cultural Renaissance

Architectural Digest

Planet Word Survived the Pandemic to Inspire a Love of Language

Meet the jurors of the 2022 Innovation by Design Awards

Based on a True Story, ft. Stephanie Mehta of FastCo and Mia Tramz of TIME

Jake’s Session at MuseumNext’s Green Museums Summit

Announcing Our New CEO

Storymaking Part II

Greenwood Rising — a Museum Dedicated to the History of the Tulsa Race Massacre — Is Now Open

Travel + Leisure

Planet Word Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

CBS Sunday Morning

FastCo: “The immersive DreamCube is like stepping inside a videogame”

Planet Word is Conde Nasté Traveler’s 2nd Best Museum in Washington D.C.

Conde Nasté Traveler

Press Release: Local Projects Sweeps Fast Co. Awards

Local Projects is the 2021 Design Company of the Year

This poignant museum uses computer vision to reckon with the legacy of colonial Australia

Storymaking with Eric Mika: Pt 1

100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Story of Greenwood Continues

Metropolis Magazine

Greenwood Rising Shares Two Stories Of Tragedy In Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District

This haunting museum recreates the horrors of the Tulsa Race Massacre

New museum for America and the Bible opens at Independence Mall

NYTimes’ lead art critic Holland Cotter reviews Greenwood Rising

The New York Times

A new history center in Tulsa’s Greenwood district recounts a grievous past while spurring future change

The Architectural Newspaper

The Greenwood Massacre in Tulsa, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on

The Art Newspaper

A New Museum Dedicated to the Tulsa Race Massacre Lets Visitors Choose to See the Full Grim Picture, or Take an ‘Emotional Exit’

Local Projects Sponsors #AAM2021

Greenwood Rising featured in NYTimes Design Special Report

The New York Times

Faith and Liberty Discovery Center is opening across the street from Independence Mall

Philadelphia Enquirer

Faith and Liberty Discovery Center reveals opening date, begins ticket sales

Planet Word has won the Interaction Award for the Expressing category, our first win with the IXDA!

Norton Museum Of Art Brings Art to Life With AR

Planet Word: The World’s First Voice Activated Museum

3 Powerful Interactive Museum Exhibits Shed Light On The Path To Racial Justice

Norton Art+ debut in Forbes

Hyde Park Barracks Museum wins Australia’s Best Permanent Gallery

Australian Museums and Galleries National Awards

D.C.’s Newest Museum is Perfect for Kids … And It’s Free

The Daily Beast

Planet Word Where You Can Experience Language In Magical Ways You Never Imagined

Planet Word, A New D.C. Museum, Explores The Landscape of Language

Washington Post

At this awesome new museum, the exhibits respond to the sound of your voice

Christopher Fung on our Innovation by Design-winning work with the New York Times

Fast Company Innovation by Design

Local Projects + The NYTimes wins the Sylvia Harris Honors Award

We Talked to 25+ Cultural Institutions. Here Are Our Top Ideas for a COVID-Future

A message of solidarity

LP hosting free workshops on COVID-future adaptability

Race Massacre Centennial Commission Announces New Site for Greenwood Rising History Center

Public Radio Tulsa

The Hyde Park Barracks reopens with a new, immersive museum experience

Print? Digital? A Frame Awards-winning project took The New York Times spatial

Sydney’s 200-Year-Old Hyde Park Barracks Has Reopened After Its Multimillion-Dollar Transformation

Concrete Playground

Why the Hyde Park Barracks sets a new benchmark in museum practice

New virtual reality exhibit at DuSable lets users experience Dr. King’s ‘Dream’

Chicago Sun Times

First look: In virtual reality, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers soul-stirring ‘Dream’ speech at DuSable Museum

Chicago Tribune

Creating a museum for the future – Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks reimagined

A New York design company is set to revamp the National Museum of Australia

The NYTimes ‘The Truth Is Worth It’ Campaign Expands to Installations All Over New York City

What’s in a Word? Museum of Words Soon to Open in Nation’s Capital

NONPROFIT QUARTERLY

The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May

WASHINGTON POST

Our augmented reality audioguide for PACE Gallery’s new exhibition, Seeing Picasso: Maker of the Modern, makes its debut

SF museum to explore our dark side: domestic violence, bullying, school shootings

San Francisco Chronicle

Local Projects named Best Medium Design Studio, wins two Gold Awards

New York Design Awards

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commemoration Commission unveils exhibit designs for new museum

NYT Highlights Local Reporting

NY1 Spectrum News

Latest ‘New York Times’ Campaign Touts Local Reporting

New York Times Truth Is Worth It Campaign Expands to Installations All Over New York City

How Local Projects Creates The Museums Of The Future: 10 Unforgettable Global Experiences

Hyde Park Barracks closes for transformation

The Sydney Morning Herald

LP Interaction Designer Nina Boesch Reveals Her UX Secrets

Game On! Inside The New Amsterdam Fashion For Good Museum

The visitor souvenir at Amsterdam’s new Fashion for Good museum? An action plan

Fashion For Good museum in Amsterdam promotes responsible fashion

Fashion for Good Encourages Consumers to Be More Responsible About Consumption With New ‘Museum’ in Amsterdam

Women's Wear Daily

Two LP Projects Make TIME’s World’s Greatest Places 2018

A lost Roman temple reopens beneath London’s bustling streets

Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London

See renderings of Planet Word, the new museum coming to Franklin School

The Planet Word Museum breaks ground at the historic Franklin School – Washington

Washington Business Journal

Here’s What D.C.’s New ‘Planet Word’ Museum In The Franklin School Will Look Like

Oprah tours The Legacy Museum on 60 Minutes

New lynching memorial confronts the nation’s brutal history of racial terrorism

The Washington Post

The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.

The New York Times

Underground Roman Temple Reopens as Immersive Museum

How Jake Barton Creates Museum Magic

Fast Company visits One World Observatory with LP

Fast Company Profiles Local Projects

ARoS Experimenting with Our View on Art

In Conversation with Jake Barton 12th April 2017

In Home of Hip-Hop, a Concert Hall to Honor Its Musical History

The New York Times

A Mental Fitness Center

Meet Our NYTimes Brand Panel Castmates

This Museum Experience Lets You Redesign New York City

The Creator's Project

City Museums Look to the Future

How Interactive Design Can Help New Yorkers Envision Their City’s Future

Synthetic Biology Is … Complex. But This Exhibit Makes It a Blast

Valentine’s Day 2012: Bjarke Ingels Group ‘Hearts’ Times Square

International Business Times

East Village lot turned into BMW Guggenheim Lab, think tank for New Yorkers to make city better

New Yorkers Become Extras for Museum of the City’s New Game

The 5 Coolest Things About The Revamped Smithsonian Design Museum

The Cooper-Hewitt’s Connected Pen Brings Visitors Back, Online

Jake Barton at TED

The Tech Museum of Innovation Wins National Honor for Body Metrics Exhibit

At New Tech Museum Exhibit, Your Body Is the Work of Art

5 Lessons In UI Design, From A Breakthrough Museum

Target Open House featured in WIRED

The New Cooper Hewitt

Technology That Serves to Enhance, Not Distract

The New York Times

BIG ♥ NYC

Cleveland Museum Visitors Explore Art with Mobile App, Beacons

The Wall Street Journal

How Laurene Powell Jobs’ XQ Institute Is Inspiring Entrepreneurs To Help Fix America’s High Schools

Jake Barton at MuseumNext

Jake Barton at Eyeo 2015

The Museum of the Future Is Here

The Atlantic Monthly

Interview with Jake Barton, Founder of Local Projects

9/11 Enters the Realm of Museum

9/11 Memorial Museum Wins at Cannes

Nathan Adkisson at PSFK Future of Retail

Want Kids To Be More Interested In STEM Classes? There’s An App For That

The Coolest Thing About 1 World Trade Center’s New Observatory Isn’t The View

Jake Barton at Eyeo 2013

Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $50 Million to Create New High Schools

The New York Times

Newly Playful, by Design

The New York Times

Bryan Stevenson Wants Us to Talk More About Slavery

At Museum on 9/11, Talking Through an Identity Crisis

The New York Times

Jazz at Lincoln Center to Redesign Rose Hall Atrium

The New York Times

Apps to Bring Math and Science Skills Back After Summer’s Slide

The New York Times

What Made New York New York? Henry Hudson, George Washington and a Silver Subway Shovel

The New York Times

Creating Enduring Experiences Through Storytelling: Interview With Local Projects

Comedians’ Holograms to Headline National Museum of Comedy

The Hollywood Reporter

Health Systems Hope Social Initiatives Will Produce Better Health Outcomes and Lower Costs

Modern Healthcare

9/11 Museum: Tragedy Turns the Mundane into Memorial

Inside Target’s Tech Funhouse and Search for Its Next Billion-Dollar Business

Picture Frames

The New York Times

A First Look at the Freedom Tower’s One World Observatory

The Wall Street Journal

Jake Barton at WIRED 2012

Jake Barton at WIRED By Design

Brookfield’s $250 Million Development Rocks Downtown

The New York Post

The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum

David Pogue at the 9/11 Memorial Museum

New Tech Museum Interactive Exhibit Educates People with Wearable Sensors

Silicon Valley Business Journal

New ‘Body Metrics’ exhibit opens at The Tech — it’s all about you

The San Jose Mercury News

An Ingenious Museum Design That Turns Visitors Into Creators

Stones and Bones

Of Pixels and Paintings: Gallery One, ArtLens and the Role of Technology in Museums

The Huffington post

New York Hall of Science Debuts Noticing Tools Apps

David Isay Wins 2015 TED Prize for StoryCorps, an Oral History Project

The New York Times

Coming Into Its Own: The Rejuvenated Brookfield Place

The Wall Street Journal

The 9/11 Story Told at Bedrock, Powerful as a Punch to the Gut

The New York Times