Daniel’s story - Remember the Children

“Daniel’s Story” is an award-winning exhibition originally designed for children that has also successfully engaged adults and provided a more narrative experience than the main exhibition.

 Interpretive Place-making in Exhibitions

The exhibition tells a difficult story using immersive settings, tracing the stages of the Holocaust through the eyes of a 14-year old boy. Visitors journey through realistic environments where they can touch, listen to, and engage in Daniel’s world as it changed during the Holocaust. All aspects of the installation were used to shape the mood and emotional tone of each setting including: the layout and flow of the exhibition, the size, proportions and slight distortions in the geometry of each space, and the use of color, texture, and light. Daniel’s diary entries serve as the exhibition’s primary text, and are based on the wartime writings of young people and the memories of some of those who survived.

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/remember-the-children-daniels-story

Roles & Responsibility

+ Conceived of interior layout and visitor flow

+ Designed stylized historic sets

+ Led technical drawing production

+ Responsible for architectural coordination

+ Supervised fabrication & installation

Project Design Team

Darcie Fohrman & Associates – Project Lead

Independent Exhibitions – Art Direction

Dirk Dieter Design – Exhibit Design Production