Ralph Appelbaum Associates

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Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) is one of the world's longest-established and largest museum exhibition design firms with offices in New York City, London, Beijing, Berlin, Moscow, and Dubai.<ref name="newap">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>Bradford A. McKee, What's a Museum: What he says it is. How Ralph Appelbaum built a monopoly in the field of exhibition design. Architecture Magazine, 2002.</ref>

Overview

The firm was founded in 1978 by Ralph Appelbaum (born 1942), a graduate of Pratt Institute and former Peace Corps volunteer (in Peru). Appelbaum currently directs RAA's undertakings, and retains daily involvement in selected commissions.

The New York Times reported in 1999 that the firm was composed of "architects, designers, editors, model builders, historians, childhood specialists, one poet, one painter and one astrophysicist."<ref name=autogenerated1>Template:Cite news</ref>

The company's best-known project is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., which is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Established in 1993, the museum has been described as a "turning point in museology".<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Major projects

Selected works

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  National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.

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  Newseum, Washington D.C.

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  Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada

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  Rose Center for Earth and Space - American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

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  William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

See also

• Local Projects, U.S. firm
• Event Communications, U.K. firm
• Gallagher & Associates, U.S. firm
• Xenario, Shanghai/U.S. firm
• Cultural tourism
• Exhibit design
• Exhibition designer

External links

• Ralph Appelbaum Associates website