“Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture” is a 8,800-square-foot traveling exhibition that presents food from a wide variety of angles, closely examining the place it holds in our cultures, the politics of its production and distribution, its origins and how it is prepared and enjoyed worldwide. The exhibition’s scope encompasses the science and anthropology of food, as well as issues like abundance and scarcity.

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“Our Global Kitchen” blends traditional mechanisms in exhibition design with new thinking around storytelling. The traveling module manages to tell a compelling and often complex story about food without overburdening the exhibit with technology or overwhelming visitors with a monotonous landscape of information. The team effectively used rich visuals metaphors and mixed media objects to create a truly engaging and interesting education around food. “Our Global Kitchen” is a strong, creative and strategic solution that focuses on appealing to the individual visitor while building against the constraint of creating an 8,800-square-foot exhibition that will travel for five to ten years. —Valerie Casey