Exhibitors Part 2

Renee and I were lean, mean, exhibitor visiting machines!
We hiked the skyways (I think that should be a separate post) over to Chipotle - they only had sandwiches for lunch and then came back and hit up the rest of the exhibitors.

We hit every booth (except for the "talkers" booth who I already met in a workshop yesterday).

I'll try to do the quick sports highlights version.
Again, will upload photos on the I drive.



Kraemer exhibits did Pretend City and some really nice work. The woman we spoke with was a private contractor who worked with Steve & ___ and figured out the educational components. SHe really thought it would be a lot of fun to work with us.

Kidzibits (based MN) - they have a jumbo light bright (I thought it couldn't be done - well maybe for reasonable cost?)! Also - they have a rental water exhibit - interesting!


Betty Brinn children's museum - giant tinker toys, also a rental brio train exhibit


Boss Display 0 super slick booth with turning gears. really, really likes their work. have an awesome rube goldberg type ball exhibit at the san diego fleet exhibit (only 30,000!).Wonderful ball exhibit wall in Iowa. Super water interactive in Richmond VA. Really stellar work.



General Science engineering - seems like a tinkerer. Neat bead movement exhibit. Ok.


Imagination Playground - Super cool gigantic foam stackable furniture/building block/erector set type pieces. They do not sturdy in the least. Pool noodle type material and foam. Kids would destroy in a heart beat - but showstoppingly cool. Sad thing was that all the pieces were blue. why no color?




Cosi / Zula - apparently their is a popular show on pbs and nbc called zula. hadn't heard of it. they have some small portable exhibits. Interesting to see how they constructed. velcro signage. only interesting piece was a ball projector. didn't look incredibly sturdy.



Indianapolis Children's Museum - just had flyers for Bob the builder, Lego castle exhibit, and (can't remember). Bob the builder looks really nice. Done by Murphy catton I think?

Murphy catton - yes they did, also did Strong Museum of Play's Reading Adventureland (based on 8 genres of reading). Very polished (not overly creative).


Pacific Studio - they said they bid on our PAL project and were not the lowest bidder.Did not seem very please about that. Loved the guitar project on his backdrop.


Nassal - they did Seussville at Universal in Orlando - which was really cool. Other projects ok. One museum was called "Wannado" as in I want to (wannado) that. They had a rock climbing wall with real gear.

Arglye - Kidtroplis, Tx. Also Fairfield Children's Museum in CT - about 10,000 sq. ft.



Naturemaker - steel trees (cool) but not recommended for climbing


Studio Displays - great job on a North Carolina museum with the little orange chairs on their backdrop.


I think Renee has the info on the magnetic ball run folks, the storyland exhibit, and some other folks. Experience services and there cooking exhibit. There was one that had a neat exhibit in NC - I'll to figure out who that was. I never did see the climbing structure people!



Very exciting to see what other museums are up to, what exhibits seem to be popular based on what's being advertised here.

Renee has more info on "the exhibit guys" which had magnetic ball runs and which way walls.

Hope I passed on some good info.!