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Situation
Less than four months before the scheduled opening of a new 7,500 square foot permanent museum exhibition, The Henry Ford chose EWI Worldwide as its partner to engineer, build and install the project.

The new exhibition, entitled With Liberty and Justice for All, was designed to tell the story of the country's quest for freedom through four transformative eras in American history.  This complex, immersive exhibit experience would showcase some of the museum's most well known artifacts, such as the bus on which Rosa Parks was riding when she made her historic stand for civil rights.  The major objectives were to meet the quickly approaching deadline, which coincided with the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and maintain a tight production budget without compromising the integrity of the artifacts and the story.

Solution
Collaboration was key to successfully achieving the set objectives.  Our project managers worked closely with the client team, brainstorming solutions in a highly collaborative environment that balanced conservation and curatorial issues while keeping a keen focus on the overall exhibit experience.  Our Exhibit Works team utilized creative fabrication, graphic and installation solutions such as producing thirty murals (some as large as 10' x 80') as digital prints and installing them like wallpaper.  A wide variety of environmentally controlled display cases were created to house artifacts, such as the Abraham Lincoln chair and an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Results
Mission accomplished.  The entire exhibition was produced and installed in less than four months time, delivering on both the schedule and cost requirements of the project.  Patrick Reynolds, manager of experience design for The Henry Ford:

"The unconditional support we had from our design and production partners was instrumental in the delivery.  Through the course of this project, our vision for the exhibit changed dramatically. These changes led to the addition of key artifacts impacting case design, layout and supporting graphics. The spirit of collaboration and flexibility allowed us to integrate, at a very late date, these changes and ultimately create this moving and thought-provoking exhibit."