My name is Dana, and I am a professional museum exhibit designer and fabricator. I started working with museums when I was 14 and since then have worked with museums throughout the country. My first exhibit job as a young teen was sweeping and cleaning displays at my local historical society, but soon I was redesigning the exhibit layouts, display case mounts and artifact informational plaques.

Since then I have worked under contract with some of the finest museums in the country, including the Smithsonian, the Field Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. Specializing in custom fabrication and artifact conservation, replication and display, my job has generally been to take an existing historical object (or in some cases to recreate said object) and design the best way to exhibit it to museum guests. This entails not only designing and creating the best way to support the delicate and valuable artifact, but also to display it in the most appealing and informative way possible.

My custom fabrication work has included everything from replicating 18th C. powder horns, designing and building entire dinosaur fossil dig pits for a children’s museum to building a 1/1 scale Apollo Command Module (shown here when it was still in the process of being built) for a private museum in NY.

The items being offered on this site have all been designed and created by me alone and are made in my small but insanely disorganized workshop. I take great pride in my work and do my best to produce a fine product.