Greenexhibits.org & how to use it

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

-Carl Sagan

Purpose of this Site

Greenexhibits.org was launched to provide museum exhibit designers and fabricators a resource for designing and building exhibits and environments that best support healthy spaces and a healthier future for kids and the environment.

Several leading children's museums have begun employing green practices in their operations, expansion projects, and exhibit environments. Others have adopted sustainability as a major institutional value, and have begun employing architects and builders to design green buildings that can serve as teaching tools themselves. While the field of green design is rapidly expanding with multiple new resources on sustainable building, there were no resources currently available that focused solely on nontoxic museum exhibits and environments for children.

This site is designed to serve as a resource for exhibit designers, addressing green exhibit design only. In the future, we hope to add a companion site that covers green building and sustainable expansion strategies for children's museums.