What’s Happening at Quatrefoil?

Quatrefoil is coming up on two anniversaries. One — celebrating our 32nd year in business — arrives this fall. It’s an opportunity to express our great appreciation to clients (past and current) who have made our work both an honor and a source of pride. The second...

Quatrefoil Design Director and Firm Principal Michael Burns recently presented a Flash Session on "Designing Museum Experiences in a Post-Pandemic World” at the Texas Association of Museums 2020 VIRTUAL conference. Click on the link below to watch Michael’s...

Dear friends and colleagues, We are going through an event that is unprecedented in our lifetimes and across our industry. The aftereffects of this pandemic — physical, financial, emotional, cultural — are going to be felt for years to come. Quatrefoil has taken...

Nestled in the quiet foothills and mesas of the east side of northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountain lies the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), an area with seventeen “sites of importance” at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as well as thirteen...

By: Amy Kehs You probably know the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. You may immediately think of Dayton, Ohio, their hometown and site of their bicycle shop, or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where they accomplished their historic first flight in 1902. College...

For much of the last month, the Quatrefoil team has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our work for the Museum of Boulder in Colorado. The permanent exhibit, the Boulder Experience Gallery, opened to the public the weekend of Nov. 17 and the initial...

The Textile Museum’s all-purpose Learning Center Museums increasingly cite flexibility as a key requirement for their exhibition spaces. They define flexibility in a variety of ways including more adaptive interior space, updateable content, and more durable,...

Michael Burns Today, when people in museums ask us to design a “permanent” gallery our response is different than it once was. “Permanence” is a term people use to indicate resilience, or longevity, but permanence, in an age of rapid change is no longer a matter of...

Michael Burns How many museums out there with participatory spaces designed around “innovation” actually believe one of your visitors will invent an entirely new concept, or method, or product in your space? I’d guess you’d say that’s not your intention. Many of...

Roula Tsapalas There is a wide range of strategies for interpreting history. Some historic sites spell it all out for us by reproducing it. Others offer only glimpses of the past leaving the visitor to piece together the clues. History is present all around us – you...