Welcome to the Exhibit Commons

The Exhibit Commons is a concept that allows people outside normal museum and science center staffs an opportunity to present new information and divergent points of view through mutable exhibitions. Content of existing exhibitions may be amended or altered using physical objects, digital files, videography, photography, spoken word or other material.

Exhibit Commons exhibits will create a wholly new kind of institution where some of exhibits reflect the institution’s perspective while others offer differing points of view, created through the communal creativity unleashed by digital technology, including computing and networking. Over time, the Exhibit Commons will grow into a wide-ranging body of mutable exhibitions from institutions around the world, allowing anyone anywhere a chance to represent their point of view in museum and science center settings.

The first set of Exhibit Commons experiences is being planned for the expanded Liberty Science Center, located in Jersey City, NJ just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan, re-opening in July 2007. The first opportunity to add content to exhibits is currently being offered at the Science Center’s offsite facility during construction, Liberty Science Center: Riverside.