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Media & Marketing

New Museums: Learning from Experiential Museum Design

Reviving their relevance for modern audiences, a new wave of museums is using cutting-edge experiential design to create more compelling visitor experiences. Stylus examines the lessons that brands can learn from the institutions trading static exhibits for crowd-pleasing edu-tainment. 

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14 Dec 2012
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