INTERPRETIVE EXHIBIT DESIGN
Design Division, Inc. 91 Gray Street Amherst MA 01002 413 549 0510 hanke@designdivisoninc.com
Lighting Freedom’s Road
Client: North Country Underground Railroad Association (NCUGRHA)
Budget: $150,000
Collaborating with NCUGRHA staff, Design Division developed an interpretive approach centered on an object theater that dramatically brought escaped slave John Thomas’s story to life. A second primary exhibit featured abstracted scale models of churches and focused on the contrasting attitudes toward slavery of different 19th-century area church groups. The lives and struggles of those traveling on the underground railway through the region were the main interpretive themes.