Museum Figures: Overview
Museum Figures are sculpted for museums and public institutions
around the world. Used to great effect by museums and
exhibition designers, museum figures impact the visual
stories museums create. StudioEIS has been creating
sculpted museum figures for more than three decades
for History, Anthropology, Natural History, Science
& Technology museums, Sports museums and Expositions
large and small.
Museum Figures capture the character, gesture, movement
and energy of the real people who have determined history’s
outcome. StudioEIS breathes life and soul into its museum
figures through a collaborative production process that
includes sculptors, painters, costumers, researchers,
designers, mold makers, foundry men and women, and model
makers.
Museum figures are designed and built by craftspeople,
whose innovative object making through visual storytelling
has made a mark on our public memory one sculpture at
a time.
Museum Figures are built in a variety of materials from
bronze and acrylic resins to plastic materials. Museum
figures are often life sized, but sometimes we make
them smaller or larger depending on the particular exhibition.
Museum figures are lifelike but also treated in painterly
or faux metallic finishes. StudioEIS’ portrait
figures are featured in many of America’s most
important cultural institutions.
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figures tell the story of some of the world’s great
anthropological discoveries from Machu Pichu for Yale
University, Native people from the Amazon for the American
Museum of Natural History to the recent Written in Bone
exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural
History, StudioEIS anthropological museum figures set
a very high standard for the museum professionals world
wide. |
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Sports figures by StudioEIS can be seen at the new Yankee
Stadium Museum, Major League Baseball’s New York
offices, Niketowns around the country, the NCAA Hall of
Champions and will soon be seen at NASCAR’s new
museum as well as the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. StudioEIS’
sports museum figures are naturalistic, realistic and
powerfully expressive in their gestural realities. |
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Figures representing military history have been a very
significant part of our working lives at StudioEIS for
a number of years. StudioEIS’ military museum figures
can be seen across the country in some of our most important
military museums, from the Army Corps of Engineers at
Fort Leonard Wood, to two new and very important installations
completed in the recent past for The National Marine Corps
Museum at Quantico in Virginia, and the National Infantry
Museum at Fort Benning in Georgia. Large groups of museum
figures have been made for these installations as well
as museum portrait figures. |
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figures are always in process for new projects that run
the gamut from forensic reconstructions for George Washington’s
Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens to the African American
Burial Ground in New York. Our history is very rich and
therefore creates wonderful opportunities for museum figures
to illustrate our distant and recent past as well as parts
of our extraordinary cultural heritage. From Motown and
the National Civil Rights Museum, to our founding generation
of Americans and the founders of what we call Jazz: StudioEIS
museum figures help create the bridge from a design idea
to a fully realized exhibition concept. |
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