PGAV Destinations Chair and Principal Mike Konzen joined Sarah Bernard in the STL TV studio to talk about PGAV’s 50 years of incredible work around the world and the new Alberti Program, in Partnership with PGAV Destinations initiative. Part 1 Part 2
This winter’s issue of Destinology is Preschoolers: Your Youngest Guests. Throughout it, we spoke to museum educators at Cincinnati Museum Center, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis to understand the development of children under five and how to create great learning experiences for them. Our designers and interviewees had… Continue reading.
On Saturday, October 24th, 2015 I had the wonderful opportunity to head up our 2015 IDSA-St. Louis Chapter’s 5th Annual IDSA-STL Student Design Competition and for the first time, in partnership with the Saint Louis Science Center. PGAV-Destinations was the top sponsor with the 1st place team receiving the PGAV Destinations Grand Prize.… Continue reading.
Since the very inception of our Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction, its entire mission was to “inspire the next generation of space explorers.” As destination designers, we can read the reviews on TripAdvisor and hear the verbatims from our clients, but it never hurts to see some evidence of our success. Part of our master plan for… Continue reading.
In the book, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made, it describes how innovator/genius Frank Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium, built a “’museum of human awareness that combined art and science while it encouraged play, experimentation, and a sense of joy and wonder…” After years of following its message, on August… Continue reading.
Here’s an interesting question: The Mona Lisa has been destroyed in a fire, but there is a perfect copy that even experts cannot tell from the original. Which would you choose to see: the copy or the ashes of the original painting? This question was actually researched by Jesse Prinz and Angelika Seidel at the… Continue reading.