Interpretive Signage & Museum Display
Working with for-profit and non-profit entities.
An important area of cultural/historical interpretation is the design of outdoor interpretive panels or indoor museum displays. Toelke Associates has been involved in numerous projects, working with for-profit and non-profit entities to design and produce a variety of panels, typically 40” wide by 30” high. On several projects we’ve created new or adapted existing content as part of an interpretive panel project.
ELIZABETH MINE INTERPRETIVE PANELS
After extensive environmental mitigation, this EPA Superfund site in Vermont, was interpreted to the public in a series of 12 panels, plus a 64-page full-color book. The development team included Milestone Heritage Consulting, Toelke Associates, an editor, and a technical illustrator.
KEYSTONE MINE PANELS
Working with Milestone Heritage Consulting, Toelke Associates designed and produced this three-panel project, presenting the history of this active copper mining operation located in Ruth, Nevada. The mine site is owned by the KGHM Corporation, an international mining enterprise. The panel graphics had to use corporate branding — colors and typography — which were incorporated into the overall design framework.
THOMAS COLE HOUSE AT CEDAR GROVE
With supplied artwork and text, Toelke Associates created a 48” x 36” interpretive panel showing an overview of the Catskill, New York home of Hudson River painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848). Various buildings are featured, with image and caption, located on the map by leader lines.