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...
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...