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64 years, 1,800 exhibitions
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The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) is the world’s largest touring exhibition service, bringing artefacts and research from the Smithsonian collections to locations all over the United States.
The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service – or SITES – has spent over 60 years touring the riches of the Smithsonian collections, with more than 1,800 exhibitions covering an impressive range of subjects, from art and history, to politics and nature, and even pop culture.
SITES’ six decades of work has ensured that the Smithsonian’s artefacts and archives have been shared with museums, libraries, schools, science centres, community centres and even shopping malls all over the US.
Founded in 1951 – with its inaugural exhibition “Contemporary Swiss Paintings” opening the following year – SITES’ six decades of work has ensured that the Smithsonian’s artefacts and archives have been shared with museums, libraries, schools, science centres, community centres and even shopping malls all over the US.
Read more: www.sites.si.edu/host/list.htm
SITES is also an enormous undertaking, touring 50 exhibitions at a time while also planning and producing 20 more, with shows being toured in almost every state in the US. In order to meet these demands SITES boasts an extensive team, relying on 48 different members of staff, each of which play a key role in its success.
The team’s background and experience is diverse, ranging from content development and creating collaborations, script writing, social media, finance, marketing, strategic planning, object handling, tour managing, and art history and education. This means each exhibition can be managed from start to finish, with representatives from each department taking on different responsibilities to ensure the exhibition process runs smoothly, from the first investigations into an idea, through to design and tour management. SITES also collaborates closely with curators and advisors at museums across the country, as well as exhibition designers and fabricators at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central.
Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars¢â and the Power of Costume. Courtesy EMP Museum/photo by Suzi Pratt. © and TM 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights Reserved.
The team’s background and experience is diverse, ranging from content development and creating collaborations, script writing, social media, finance, marketing, strategic planning, object handling, tour managing, and art history and education.
SITES launched national tours for three new exhibitions within the first few months of 2015 alone, and interim Director Myriam Springuel comments, “Each one showcases the diversity of our programme in terms of size, scope and presentation.”
The first of these touring shows was the blockbuster “Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume”, which SITES partnered with the Lucasfilm Museum of Narrative Art and Lucasfilm itself to create. Opening at the EMP Museum in Seattle, the exhibition featured 60 costumes from the beloved film series, bringing visitors behind-the-scenes of the creative process with short films, animated slideshows and digital flipbooks.
Read more: www.sites.si.edu/starwarsandthepowerofcostume/
SITES also toured “Patios, Pools, & the Invention of the American Backyard”, which offered visitors a chance to explore the history of mid-century American backyards, including the development of suburban life, postwar garden design and the birth of the environmental movement. A key part of SITES’ work is encouraging host museums to expand on the themes of touring shows, and as a result Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Kansas launched a companion exhibition dedicated to Eisenhower’s enthusiasm for grilling.
See more about The DOCUMERICA Photography Project
Another exploration of history came in the form of “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project – which saw SITES partner with the National Archives and Records Administration to showcase a set of 90 vintage colour photographs that offer a portrait of America in the early and mid-70s. In some cases, SITES also shares digital exhibition content with museums around the world, allowing shows to be toured more broadly without the restrictions of shipping actual objects.
Read more: www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/beyondbollywood/
Titanoboa: Monster Snake. Photo by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution.
New exhibitions coming up this year include “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation” – a partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center to explore the Indian American experience, and the community’s contributions to American life and history. “Things Come Apart” will also go on tour in September 2016, exploring the world of engineering and industrial design through Todd McLellan’s deconstructed photographs.
This year, SITES will also be attending a number of conferences, including The Mountain-Plains Museum Association 2015 Conference in Wichita, Kansas, September 27 – October 1; the American Association for State and Local History in Louisville, Kentucky, September 16 – 19; the National Humanities Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, November 5 – 8.
// 29. Juli 2015