Is your touring exhibition, traveling collection, and/or loaned object properly insured? If you’re like most institutions, collectors, and touring agencies with exhibitions and collections on tour, the answer is: probably not. DISASTERS This year, together, we grieved the loss of the National Museum of Brazil and we...
Many people reading this may think, “it’s easy; we’ll pack it up, send it on a container or semi-trailer, and then set it up on the other end”. It is easy, after all, to think that something that’s successfully been on display for years is...
At Flying Fish, we work hard and play hard, and one of the best parts of our off-work hours (and in some cases at-work hours, too) are our pets. Read on to learn a bit about our fluffy family members! 1. Bek Voller, Executive Assistant “Please meet...
One of the biggest complaints we hear about in relation to touring exhibitions is the peak and trough attendance phenomenon. If for some reason you are unfamiliar with this concept, it is the extreme peaks and valleys in visitor attendance that can be caused by...
For more than two years, my wife and I had the good fortune of living and working in the remarkable city of Toronto. My wife was supervising animation on a major motion picture and I was working on a large museum exhibition. It was an...
Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family, a touring exhibition, brings the latest tyrannosaur discoveries to life, overturning our preconceptions about these ferocious predators. A focal point of the exhibition is the cast of ‘Scotty’, one of the largest and most complete T. rex specimens in the world....
Australian Museum launched Tyrannosaurs - Meet the Family at their museum in Sydney in November 2013. The exhibition went on to become the most attended exhibition in their 190-year history. At that point in time, Australian Museum had a well-developed domestic touring program, touring Australian-centric...
Two photographic exhibitions from the Japanese American National Museum, Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World, and Tatau: Marks of Polynesia both focus on tattoo, an art form with ancient roots and an array of distinct traditions and artist interpretations. Striking photographs capture living...
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...