David Harvey is an exhibition designer whose passion is creating compelling museum experiences for the public. His interests have always oscillated between art and science; so eventually he thought, Why choose?
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he designed permanent galleries and exhibitions to showcase the work of artists ranging from Degas to Sugimoto, Velazquez to Versace. Then he ventured across Central Park to the American Museum of Natural History and discovered it was equally exhilarating to spotlight Neanderthal skulls, live poisonous frogs, Peter the Great’s diamond-studded crown, dinosaur femurs, the largest meteorite in captivity and Darwin’s handwritten notebooks, although he has not yet figured out how to get all of these into a single exhibition. His most recent exhibitions are Brain: The Inside Story, Traveling the Silk Road (now in Singapore) and Race to the End of the Earth (now in Washington, DC). In his spare time he teaches graduate students how to do what he does.
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