Darcie C. Fohrman
About
 
Darcie C. Fohrman consults with museums of all types to create multidisciplinary, interactive exhibitions. Her clients include the Exploratorium, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Oakland Museum of California, California Academy of Sciences, Skirball Cultural Center, and Getty Center.

Some of Darcie's most notable works include Daniel's Story at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and, more recently, COURAGE: The Carolina Story That Changed America at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina, which received the American Association of Museums Excellence in Exhibition Award and the American Association for State and Local History Award for Best Exhibition.

Darcie brings 35 years of experience to her work as an interpretive planner, exhibition designer, facilitator, creative director, and project director. She was the director of exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art, where she introduced the team approach to exhibition development, designing large blockbuster exhibitions. Before that, she was the director of exhibitions at the Spertus Museum of Judaica in Chicago, where she designed the first permanent exhibition about the Holocaust to appear in the United States.

For eight years, Darcie was a faculty member of the museum studies graduate program at John F. Kennedy University, where she taught exhibition development and design. She is a founding member and former vice president of the National Association for Museum Exhibition and is currently serving as the association's education advisor.

Darcie is a member of the Museum Group.

 

 
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