American Museum of Natural History Hires ENGINE for Multiple Projects

The American Museum of Natural History, one of the world’s five most-visited museums, has had us create a subsite for the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival two years in a row. The sections needed to fit the website’s feel, but in a distinct fashion. We contributed custom PHP and themed up the site’s design, leaving breathing room for big, crisp, quick-loading images.

Armistead Booker, associate media designer at AMNH and this project’s point of contact, describes our coding contributions as a “completely overhauled backend to the site, which was a vast improvement from the festival site in previous years.” He also confirms that we were “on budget for this project … accommodating our demanding schedule and timing just as we requested.”

Be sure to click around the rest of the AMNH website so you can get a feel for how our contributions fit in.

Some AMNH fast facts:

• Founded in 1869
• Four million annual museum visitors
• 460,000 field-trip visitors annually
• 13 million annual website visitors
• 200 scientists on staff
• Over 90 publications per year
• International expeditions yielding 60,000+ new exhibit items annually

Much, much more on the museum here.

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