If you’ve had anything to do with touring exhibitions over the past decade, you know that there are plenty of options for programming your special exhibitions gallery. Once an exercise in curated objects exchanged between institutions, now we see a host of touring exhibitions in...
It's official! Earlier this year, Flying Fish opened a new North American location in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. This month, we were pleased to host the official ribbon-cutting! As Flying Fish continues to grow, exhibition design, sales and marketing, and fabrication will take place in...
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Joel English, Exhibition Manager of the touring exhibition, Apollo: When We Went to the Moon, takes us behind the scenes. Read on to learn more about Joel and the exhibition. MF: With the 50th anniversary,...
Have you ever wondered what it takes to host an exhibition with live specimens? What about an international traveling exhibition like Spiders: From Fear to Fascination? Read on to learn about some of our clients' frequently asked questions about hosting the Spiders exhibition, and how...
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be an exhibition manager of a touring exhibition? Read on to learn from Carli Brown, a seasoned Exhibition Manager of travelling exhibits such as Spiders: From Fear to Fascination and The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination...
Flying Fish was recently featured in a case study by ecsite on the future of traveling exhibitions, titled "Using Partnerships to Combine Expertise for Successful Traveling Exhibition Projects." Read on for an excerpt of the article, featuring Flying Fish and the U.S. Space & Rocket...
Often times, initiating and operating an exhibition tour is relatively straight-forward for our team at Flying Fish. Sometimes, we’re presented with extreme cases - like touring an exhibition with live, venomous spiders across borders. We’ve also dealt with transporting delicate and extremely rare specimens, in...
Looking for something unique to do while at the AAM conference in New Orleans? Check out these five intriguing museums, all within walking distance from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center: New Orleans Pharmacy Museum - 1.2 miles from Convention Center https://www.pharmacymuseum.org/ 514 Chartres Street Even by the mid-19th...
[gallery ids="20670,20722"] Here at Flying Fish, we work with museums around the world daily, and it can be easy to get used to that – we love our work! This month, we thought it’d be good to remind ourselves what led us to where we are...
Call Flying Fish. We’ll take care of it. Here’s how we do it. The Co-Op Approaching the industry in a fresh, yet fundamental way, Flying Fish works exclusively with museums & science centers to take their collections and their expertise out to a wider global market. We do...