Wayne LaBar

  • What I do, where I work

  • VP Exhibitions and Featured Experiences at Liberty Science Center

    Managing and leading the the division that developments, designs and operations all exhibitions, open source and cell phone initiatives, signage, animal husbandry, traveling exhibitions, giant screen films, digital 3D shows at Liberty Science Center. Lead the Experience Services arm of Liberty Science Center which helps plan, design, program and project manage science centers and museums (exhibitions, educational programs, business plan etc) around the world as well as manages the current exhibitions for rent from our institution.

    Current Projects – Experience Services:
    Caguas Science Center – Caguas Puerto Rico
    Kocaeli Science Center – Kocaeli, Turkey
    The Manitoba Museum – Winnipeg Canada
    The History of the Port of New York and New Jersey

    Current Projects – Liberty Science Center
    Cooking
    Exhibitions of Relevance

    Exhibit File References by others of exhibit work:
    http://www.exhibitfiles.org/wil...
    http://www.exhibitfiles.org/sky...

  • Current position

  • VP Exhibitions and Featured Experiences at Liberty Science Center

Earlier positions

  • Dir. of Exhibits and Dir, Exhibtion Implmentation at Tech Museum of Innovation

  • Project Manager at Krent Paffett Associates

  • Project Manager at Carnegie Science Center

  • Research Assistant at Carnegie Museum of Natural History

  • Engineer Trainee at NASA Langley Research Center

Website(s)

Recent publications & presentations

  • "Chapter."   Visitor Voices

     

  • "Traveling Exhibitions Choices as an Expression of Institutional Intent."   Fifth Science Centre World Congress

    June 2008

  • "Science Centre of 2020."   European Collaborative for Science, Industry & Technology Exhibitions (ECSITE) Conference, Budapest, Hungary

    June 2008

  • "Use of Technology to Prolong Experiences and Strengthen Learning."   European Collaborative for Science, Industry & Technology Exhibitions (ECSITE) Conference, Budapest, Hungary

    June 2008

  • "Can You Tube® & Wikipedia® be Models for Creating Exhibits."   American Association of Museums (AAM) Conference, Denver, CO

    May 2008

  • "Tall Tales: A Century of Exhibiting Tall Building."   Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Congress and Proceedings

    February 2008

Case Studies

Skyscraper!: Achievement and Impact

Skyscraper!: Achievement and Imp...

by Wayne LaBar

Published June 09 2008

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