Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) is one of the world's longest-established and largest

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exhibition design firms with offices in

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, and

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.Bradford A. McKee, What's a Museum: What he says it is. How Ralph Appelbaum built a monopoly in the field of exhibition design. Architecture Magazine, 2002.

Overview

The firm was founded in 1978 by Ralph Appelbaum (born 1942), a graduate of

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and former

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volunteer (in

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). Appelbaum currently directs RAA's undertakings, and retains daily involvement in selected commissions. ''

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'' reported in 1999 that the firm was composed of "architects, designers, editors, model builders, historians, childhood specialists, one poet, one painter and one astrophysicist." The company's best-known project is the

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, which is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Established in 1993, the museum has been described as a "turning point in museology".

Major projects

Selected works

File:Nmaahc.jpg, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. File:Newseum RAA.jpg, Newseum, Washington D.C. File:CMHR RAA.jpg, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada File:RosecenterRAA.jpg, Rose Center for Earth and Space - American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York File:Clinton Presidential Library RAA.jpg, William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

References

External links

Ralph Appelbaum Associates website
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Overview

Major projects

Selected works

See also

References

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