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Top 10 Firms for History / Heritage Museum Projects

Ranked by recency-weighted eligible project count at history / heritage museum venues, 2021–2026. The 10 highest-scoring firms hold a numbered rank; 68 more firms with eligible activity are listed below the table.

Counts design-discipline credits only -- exhibit design, interpretive planning, media design, architecture, master planning, landscape architecture, environmental graphics, lighting design -- held in a role the firm offers as a standalone service. Fabrication, AV integration, and consulting credits appear on project pages but don't place a firm on this list. Standard recency weighting and sourcing bonus apply.

Counts reflect the work this index has recorded, not a census of any firm's total output — coverage depth varies by firm — and a position here implies no judgment of design quality.

RankScore FirmHQEligible projects
118.2 Ralph Appelbaum Associates New York, NY Carolina Museum of the Marine (2026), Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026), Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy (2026), Antonín Dvořák's Birthhouse Museum Core Exhibits (2025), Freedom Rides Museum — 2025 Refresh (2025), In This Place (2025), National WWI Museum and Memorial Technology Refresh and Encounters (2025), PETRI Berlin — Archaeology Lab (2025), MONEY! and Economy Lab (2024), John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture & History (2024), Lost Shtetl Museum (2024), National WWI Museum and Memorial Media Refresh (2024), The People's House - A White House Experience (2024), Core Exhibit Renovation (2024), International African American Museum (2023), The Punk Rock Museum (2023), Jewel House (Crown Jewels exhibition) (2023), The Intelligence Factory (2022), The World of Stonehenge (2022), Jackie Robinson Museum Core Exhibits (2022), OKLA HOMMA Immersive Media (Origins Theater, Uprooted, Exit Experience, The Xchange) (2021), Ethnological Museum & Museum of Asian Art (2021), Second World War Galleries (2021)
210.0 Cortina Productions McLean, VA Camouflage: Designed to Deceive (2026), Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026), Temple Square Visitors' Center (2026), Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), Spying Launched a Nation (2024), Jackson Hole History Museum (2024), The People's House - A White House Experience (2024), International African American Museum (2023), The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023), Toronto Holocaust Museum core exhibits (2023), Jackie Robinson Museum Core Exhibits (2022), Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (2021)
39.2 Eos Lightmedia Vancouver, BC Family Discovery Center (2025), Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact (2025), National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), Navy SEAL Museum San Diego (2025), The People's House - A White House Experience (2024), Eerie Illusions (2022), Kelowna Flightcraft Aerospace Centre for Excellence Exhibits (2022), Here, Now and Always (2022), Cape Breton Miners Museum Multi-Sensory Theatre Experience (2021), Choctaw Cultural Center Core Exhibits (2021), Haida Heritage Centre Exhibit Lighting Upgrade (2021), National Museum of African American Music (2021), Wanuskewin Heritage Park Interpretive Centre Renewal (2021)
48.9 RLMG Watertown, MA Ruckus! (2026), Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), Collected (2025), Dennis Washington Homeland Gallery (2025), Cape Fear Mobile Scavenger Hunt (2024), National WWI Museum and Memorial Media Refresh (2024), York County History Center (2024), Seeking Freedom (2022), Thoreau's World Microsite (2022), April 19, 1775 Gallery and Website (2021), Celebrated Transcendentalist Authors (2021), Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Visitor Center (2021)
58.5 Local Projects New York, NY First Bank of the United States Museum (2026), Camouflage: Designed to Deceive (2026), Expanding Freedom (2026), Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), Freedom Tower Restoration and Visitor Experience (2025), The Inaugural Experience (2023), Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark (2023), Great Southern Land (2022), Faith and Liberty Discovery Center (2021), Greenwood Rising: Black Wall Street History Center (2021)
67.5 Gallagher & Associates New York, NY National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), Navy SEAL Museum San Diego (2025), Jackson Hole History Museum (2024), The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023), St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum (2022), ANU — Museum of the Jewish People Renewal (2021), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Transformation (2021), Hong Kong Pop 60+ (2021), Corinthian Hall Renovation (2021), Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (2021), National Museum of African American Music (2021)
77.2 Monadnock Media Hatfield, MA Beaufort on the Brink of Revolution (2026), Museum Experience Center (2026), Museum of Alabama Galleries Renovation (2025), Charlotte: Moving Forward, Looking Back (2024), In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World (2024), Enhanced Core Exhibitions (2024), Civil Rights Memorial Center Redesign (2022), Choctaw Cultural Center Core Exhibits (2021), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Transformation (2021)
85.8 Technical Artistry New York, NY Freedom Rides Museum — 2025 Refresh (2025), In This Place (2025), National WWI Museum and Memorial Technology Refresh and Encounters (2025), Core Exhibit Renovation (2024), International African American Museum (2023), This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture (2023)
95.5 Proun Design Somerville, MA Kid Zone (2026), Resistance & Resilience: Slavery and Freedom in Marblehead (2026), Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation Exhibits (2026), Ghosted Structures (2024), Color Through a Child's Eyes (2021), Josiah Henson Museum and Park Exhibits (2021), More Than a Job: New Bedford's Work and Community (2021)
104.8 Luci Creative Lincolnwood, IL Museum Experience Center (2026), MoMoney Core Exhibits (2026), Illinois Holocaust Museum Experience360 (2025), Northwest Kidney Centers Dialysis Museum (2024), Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Visitor Center (2021)

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Firms with eligible activity in the window that fall outside the ranked table — fewer than 2 eligible projects, or a score below the top 10. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

FirmHQEligible projects
AldrichPears Associates Vancouver, BC A Soldier for All Seasons — Chinese Canadians in the Second World War (2025), Chinese Canadian Museum Inaugural Exhibits (2023), Cape Breton Miners Museum Multi-Sensory Theatre Experience (2021), Chinatown Storytelling Centre Core Exhibits (2021), Japanese American Museum of Oregon Core Exhibits (2021), 360 Gallery at Washington State History Museum (2021)
Amaze Design Boston, MA Philipse Manor Hall: Our Whole History (2022), April 19, 1775 Gallery and Website (2021), Celebrated Transcendentalist Authors (2021)
Andrew Merriell & Associates Santa Fe, NM The Bomb Without the Boom (Stockpile Stewardship exhibit) (2023)
Arrowstreet Boston, MA Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum Wayfinding (2022)
Ashton Design Baltimore, MD Collective Action (2023), Food for Thought (2023)
Available Light Boston, MA Ruckus! (2026), National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023), Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture — Entertainment Nation (2022), National Museum of African American Music (2021)
Beaudry Interactive North Hollywood, CA Atomic Odyssey (2025)
Belle & Wissell, Co. Seattle, WA Remembrance Gallery: Immersive Memorial Space & Interactive Exhibit (2024)
Blue Telescope New York, NY Sloan Museum of Discovery Expansion and Renovation (2022)
Bluecadet Philadelphia, PA AI Connections Table (2022)
BNIM Kansas City, MO Vesterheim Commons (2023)
Boston Productions Inc. Boston, MA George H.W. Bush Gallery Renovation (2025), Ancient Seas (2024), Children on the Homefront: Growing Up with War (2023), Samuel Slater Experience (2022)
C&G Partners New York, NY Uprooted (2023), Native New York (2021)
CambridgeSeven Cambridge, MA U.S. Marshals Museum (2023), Sloan Museum of Discovery Expansion and Renovation (2022)
Dimensional Innovations Overland Park, KS Sabetha History Center Exhibits (2026), Kansas Museum of History Core Exhibits (2025), Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum Core Exhibits (2023), Situation Room Experience (2022)
DLR Group Omaha, NE Crossing Gallery and Education Center (2025)
Evidence Design Brooklyn, NY Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum (2023)
EwingCole Philadelphia, PA Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture — Entertainment Nation (2022), Native New York (2021)
Exhibit Concepts, Inc. Vandalia, OH Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Renovation: Phase I (2021)
Fisher Marantz Stone New York, NY Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026)
Fivestone Studios Nashville, TN MoMoney Core Exhibits (2026)
Foster + Partners New York, NY Zayed National Museum (2025), Narbo Via (2021)
Gensler San Francisco, CA The People's House - A White House Experience (2024), Jackie Robinson Museum Core Exhibits (2022)
GWWO Architects Baltimore, MD Manassas Museum Renovation and Expansion (2023)
HealyKohler Design Washington, DC Museum of Christian & Gospel Music — Core Exhibits (2025), Beyond the Battle Museum (2023), Hollywood in the Heartland (2023)
HGA Minneapolis, MN Jackson Hole History Museum (2024), Uprooted (2023), Burial Ground for Enslaved People Contemplative Site (2022)
Ideum Corrales, NM Pathway to Peace: USS Missouri's World War II Experience (2025), Prometheus in the Desert (2025), Voices from the Front (2024)
Isometric Studio Brooklyn, NY Robert Rauschenberg's New York: Pictures from the Real World (2025), Lewis Latimer House Museum Permanent Exhibition (2024), Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House and Museum Permanent Exhibition (2023), New York, Now: Home (2023), City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space (2022)
L'Observatoire International New York, NY Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem (2023)
Lightswitch Chicago, IL Puller Gallery & Miller Annex (2021)
Lord Cultural Resources Toronto, True The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023)
M. Catton & Co. Le Mars, IA Medal of Honor Museum at Patriots Point Renovation (2024)
Main Street Design Waltham, MA Dennis Washington Homeland Gallery (2025)
MASS Design Group Boston, MA Unbound: Memorial to Enslaved Persons (2025)
Matter Practice Brooklyn, NY Weeksville Transforming Community: In Pursuit of Freedom (2022)
Metcalfe Architecture & Design Philadelphia, PA First Amendment Gallery (2023)
Mills Whitaker Architects Arlington, MA Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation Exhibits (2026)
Moment Factory Montréal, QC The Perpetual Story Machine (2025), Village Parallèle (2024), AURA Invalides (2023), Lake George Winter's Dream (2023)
Olson Kundig Seattle, WA Bob Dylan Center (2022), ANOHA — The Children's World of the Jewish Museum Berlin (2021)
Pentagram New York, NY Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026)
Peter Hyde Design Brooklyn, NY Spying Launched a Nation (2024), Sloan Museum of Discovery Expansion and Renovation (2022)
PGAV Destinations St. Louis, MO The 1904 World's Fair (2024)
Pure+Applied New York, NY Weeksville Transforming Community: In Pursuit of Freedom (2022)
Reich+Petch Toronto, ON S.S. Keewatin Gallery: Last of the Edwardian Passenger Liners (2024), Toronto Holocaust Museum core exhibits (2023), Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada new facility (2022), Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture — Entertainment Nation (2022)
Roto Dublin, OH Puller Gallery & Miller Annex (2021), The Legacy Museum Expansion (2021)
Schuler Shook Chicago, IL National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Transformation (2021)
SmithGroup Detroit, MI Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum (2023), Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Visitor Center (2021)
Snøhetta Brooklyn, NY Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), Musée National de la Marine Renovation (2023), Vesterheim Commons (2023)
Solid Light Louisville, KY George Washington: A Revolutionary Life (2026), Duck, Duck, Goose: Waterfowl of the Mississippi Flyway (2023), Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston (2023), Delta Blues Museum Permanent Exhibits (2022), Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Renovation (2021)
Span Studio Chicago, IL Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home (2024)
Split Rock Studios Minneapolis, MN You Are Here (2024), Ancient Seas (2024), Nya'waap Illyuw Uuchyuwp — Our Way of Knowing (2022), From the Woods to the World (2021)
Steve Feldman Design Bethesda, MD National Mounted Warrior Museum (Phase I) (2024)
StoryFile Los Angeles, CA Big Sonia: New Media Featuring Sonia Warshawski (2025), National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), Return with Honor (2025)
Storyline Studio Seattle, WA Cedar and Sea: The Maritime Culture of the Indigenous People of the Pacific Northwest Coast (2024), ntsayka ilíi ukuk — This is Our Place (2024)
Studio Joseph New York, NY Sculpting History: Art, Power, and the "Lost Cause" American Myth (2024), This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture (2023)
Studio Matthews Seattle, WA Taking Care: The Black Angels of Sea View Hospital (2024)
Taylor Studios Rantoul, IL National WWI Museum and Memorial Trench and Triage Hospital Refresh (2025), Fort Bend Museum Renovation (2021)
The Design Minds Fairfax, VA Museum of Utah and Collection Facility (2026), Seeking Freedom (2022), Annapolis: An American Story (2022)
The Exhibits Dept. Pacific Grove, CA Coastside History Museum Opening Exhibition (2023)
The PRD Group Fairfax, VA Museum of Alabama Galleries Renovation (2025), York County History Center (2024)
THG Creative Pasadena, CA Temple Square Visitors' Center (2026), The Priddy Family Foundation Freedom Theater (2023)
Thinc Design New York, NY Art in the Service of Faith (Bicentennial Exhibition) (2023)
Tillotson Design Associates New York, NY Bob Dylan Center (2022)
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects New York, NY Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026)
Trivium Interactive Boston, MA Not Fade Away (Surf Music Experience Center) (2025), Philipse Manor Hall: Our Whole History (2022)
Unified Field Brooklyn, NY Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture — Entertainment Nation (2022), The Claudia and Nelson Peltz Social Lab (2021)
Upswell Portland, OR In This Place (2025), Freeze the Day: A History of Winter Sports in Oregon (2021)
Voorsanger Architects New York, NY The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023)