Designers Perfect Exhibits

Designers have been working on exhibits in the National Infantry Museum for close to five years, starting with a week in Army basic training.

The design team is from the Boston based firm Christopher Chadbourne and Associates. They have designed other exhibits for places like the Smithsonian.

Designers worked with audio and video producers, graphic designers, architects, and lighting designers. 

We talked to the lead designer Brent Johnson about one of the hardest parts of the project, “It was the most complicated thing that I have ever worked on, staring with very early on, placing the 23 ton Bradley Fighting Vehicle on the highest point of the Last 100 Yards, that was done before there were any walls on the building, the structure. In fact, it came in by crane.”

The firm was just assigned to work on exhibits for the United States National Army Museum, but Johnson say it will be hard to top the world class museum they have created here.