5. Introduction
The main goal of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Initial Meeting Phase is to
take stock of previous exhibit plans and studies, as well as the approved building
plans from the architectural master plan, and from there, reach consensus on a
general overview for an exhibit plan to move forward with into the Preliminary
Design Phase.
The Initial Meeting Phase commenced on June 6, 2011 with a two-day workshop
at the site attended by representatives of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission (PHMC), Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (RMP), and Hilferty &
Associates. The workshop included a site tour (buildings and grounds); a review
of previous plans, studies, and present and future projects being considered; a
review of the thematic outline and “General Comments Regarding Exhibit Design”
provided by PHMC and RMP; a diagrammatic exercise to explore possible
placement and flow of main exhibit themes; and a discussion of delivery methods,
wayfinding, and learning styles. Through this process, goals of the new exhibits
were identified and confirmed.
The goals of the new interpretive exhibit are to
• communicate on many levels the
important story of how railroads have
changed the way we live;
• enhance the visitor experience;
• increase the number of visitors, including
those opting to sit in the lobby or go
elsewhere while family members explore
the museum;
• entice visitors to make repeat visits; and
• increase patronage of and volunteerism
at the museum.
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6. Desirable components to meet these goals are to
• attract westbound visitors to the site;
• improve access to the entry and the entrance experience;
• orient visitors to the site;
• orient visitors to the subject matter;
• create a “WOW” moment upon entering the rolling stock hall (RSH)
while preserving open floor space for rental functions;
• blend stories and “stuff” to create a dynamic environment that will foster
visitor curiosity, comprehension, and enjoyment;
• develop a sensible and safe connection between the RSH and the
roundhouse; and
• balance conservation and interpretive needs in the RSH and outside
at the rolling stock yard.
The meeting moved forward with the reaffirmation that exhibit planning will
emphasize the main overarching message: “Railroads changed the way we live,”
and work with the five themes (see “Big Ideas”) that the site staff identified. Upon
conclusion of the meeting, PHMC reviewed with Hilferty their tasks of submitting
meeting minutes (see appendix), developing bubble plan options showing
proximity of topics and visitor flow, and providing narrative walk-throughs.
Hilferty submitted three design concepts and three visitor experience options. On
July 11, PHMC, RMP, and Hilferty held a conference call to discuss the options.
On July 25, PHMC communicated to Hilferty its preferred scheme for the design
concept and visitor experience. The preferred visitor experience option presented
in this report incorporates team concerns and comments as appropriate. Options
not selected appear in the appendix. This report will provide the basis for all future
design work.
Workshop attendees
Steven Miller (PHMC) Ann Davis (RMP)
Brenda Reigle (PHMC) Patrick Morrison (RMP)
Michael Bertheaud (PHMC) Troy Grubb (RMP)
Charles Fox (RMP) Craig A. Benner (RMP)
Brad Smith (RMP) Sam Van Nostrand (Hilferty)
Nick Jmijewski (RMP) Dean Clouse (Hilferty)
Allan Martin (RMP) Gerry Hilferty (Hilferty)
Deborah Reddig (RMP) Carol Perloff (Hilferty)
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7. Mission statement
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania collects, preserves, and interprets
Pennsylvania’s railroad history for citizens and visitors by preserving and
documenting the contributions that Pennsylvania railroading has made to
the development of our Commonwealth and the nation.
goals
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, devoted to preserving and interpreting the
broad impact of railroad development on society, seeks to
• display over 100 locomotives and cars from the mid-19th and 20th
centuries, including the priceless Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Collection;
• pursue a major restoration program, which already has restored many of
these unique survivors to their original appearance;
• conduct educational programs for all ages, provide tours, and hold special
events, many in cooperation with outside organizations;
• house extensive exhibits of railroad artifacts, plus priceless artwork, books,
photographs, and corporate railroad material;
• recognize that railroad history is alive and continues to be made in this
new millennium; and
• enhance the museum’s world-class status through a process of steady
improvements involving public-private partnerships.
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9. PROJECT OVERVIEW
Property and Building history
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located on PA Route 741, about a mile
east of the center of downtown Strasburg. It sits across the street from the Strasburg
Rail Road, making it an ideal location to attract rail enthusiasts. Several other
cultural and shopping attractions make this area a tourist destination.
The initial museum building opened in 1975. It featured a large train display
building and an operating turntable from the Reading Company. In June 1995 a
train shed-like addition doubled the indoor display space. In the summer of 2007,
a new Art Deco entrance façade and gift shop were completed.
Current building projects entail installation of a new geothermal HVAC
system in the museum, including the rolling stock hall, and construction of a
16,000-square-foot roundhouse in the rolling stock yard. The HVAC project,
scheduled for completion by October 2011, may be completed as late as
January 2012. The roundhouse, to be located on the site of the museum’s
existing turntable, will provide permanent, climate-controlled storage for the
museum’s historic collection of PRR steam locomotives, among other items.
Approximately fifteen to twenty percent of the space will be interpretive. Design
of the roundhouse, by Erdy McHenry Architecture in Philadelphia, is scheduled
for completion by December 2011, opening for visitors in Spring 2013. Site
work to accompany the new building includes a paved pathway leading from the
southwest corner of the rolling stock hall to the roundhouse.
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10. exhibit Project history
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (RMP) and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
(PHMC) staff and various consultants have taken several steps towards developing
a new permanent exhibit for the museum in order to enhance the visitor experience.
In October 2006, Interpretive Solutions, Inc. (IS) submitted an extensive exhibit
script that posed eight major themes of interpretation. In September 2007
Hilferty and Associates, Inc. launched an exhibit planning phase. The Hilferty
report, submitted February 2009, identified levels of interpretation, overarching
interpretive themes, a visitor flow diagram, an interpretive experience walkthrough,
an exhibit budget and schedule.
In 2007– 08, RMP conducted visitor and member surveys. Some of the more
salient results are as follows:
• The top three areas of greatest interest and value are the rolling stock hall,
locomotives/cars open for self-guided tours, and the outdoor restoration yard.
• The three things visitors enjoy most are nostalgia, the significance of the
collection (seeing and touching real things), and sharing time/interest with
children and grandchildren.
• 75% of visitors to the museum do not bring children with them.
• Stewart Junction, the children’s area, is a visitor-favorite.
The Initial Meeting Phase, the next step of the planning
process for the permanent exhibit commenced in
June 2011. This consisted of a review and
brainstorming workshop attended by PHMC,
RMP, Hilferty staff, and scriptwriter Carol Perloff.
From this point, the project is structured to move
forward into subsequent phases of design,
fabrication and installation, and
post-installation.
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11. script status
Materials from the interpretive report completed in 2006 provide a basis for scripts,
artifact lists, and graphic lists. This will be one of many elements to be used as the
project team moves forward to craft a new exhibit plan. Before moving forward,
it would be helpful to review the previous script content with PHMC and site staff
to confirm what worked and was relevant to the story they want to tell, and what
may have been deemed outside of the scope or beyond the space or collections
of the museum. It would be very useful to for the design team to acquire any source
documents or other background research that supports the script.
artifact status
RMP has extensive collections on site—both inside and outside—and has started
to match artifacts with the stories. The museum has an inventory of 43 locomotives,
an Excel spreadsheet inventory for three-dimensional artifacts (catalog number,
object name, object location), a Cuadra Star database for three-dimensional
artifacts (detailed and searchable information regarding history of use, material,
manufacturer,etc.), digital photographs of all artifacts in the Cuadra Star database,
and digital scans for about 30,000 historic images linked to the databases.
Research status/Plan
Looking ahead to the research component of the Preliminary Design Phase, the
first step is to determine what research materials already exist from IS. The next
step will be to identify holes/gaps in those materials (relevant to the approved
content outline) and to develop a strategy for how the site staff and scriptwriter can
collaborate to identify photographs, first person accounts, documents, and other
archival resources. It is understood that the museum has archival databases for
large portions, though less than half of its archival materials.
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13. Observations & Insights
approach/Impression
The current museum signage, particularly from the east, does not convey to potential
visitors that the building houses a museum about railroads with a spectacular
collection. There is a need for signing elements that combine three-dimensional
elements and graphics that strongly identifies the museum and encourages people
to stop. These elements should include a variety of sizes from those that are visible
from the road and from across the street to others that are visible from the parking
lot and along the pathway into the museum. The elements should hint at experiences
to be had at the museum and build anticipation and excitement.
This should extend into the lobby area where visitors are asked to purchase
a ticket. In the current arrangement, once visitors enter the lobby, there is no
enticement to purchase a ticket because they cannot see anything beyond the
lobby and large ticket booth structure. Ideally visitors should be able to see
something of interest beyond the ticketing point that encourages them to spend
their money and hints at a worthwhile experience.
Additionally, it is a future goal of the museum to make the pedestrian crossing from
the Strasburg Railroad safer and more inviting to encourage more crossover visitors.
facility orientation
Because the museum is large, complex, and includes both interior and exterior
exhibit elements, clear and comprehensive facility orientation is vital from the
moment of arrival. Facility orientation should occur at the parking lots, along the
pathway into the museum, and in the museum entry lobby. Wayfinding signage
at decision points that include the parking lot, along the path, in the lobby, in the
rolling stock hall, and in the rolling stock yard will work with facility orientation to
make a visitor’s choices clear.
The current lobby ticketing and orientation sequences do not work well. The desk
attendant is hard to see behind the counter and themed bars in the ticket windows.
Visitors who utilize the restrooms before purchasing a ticket can easily slip past
the attendant and into the museum without paying. Large groups often create a
bottleneck in the lobby, making it hard for individual or smaller groups of visitors
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14. to get past. Relocating and redesigning the ticketing counter to act as more of a
control point for visitors will help ameliorate these issues. Groups can be led into
the multipurpose room for orientation to avoid a bottleneck at the ticket desk.
The visitor experience diagrams focus on a ground-level organization with core
interpretation happening at this level; changing exhibits and special collections
are located in the second level gallery space. The size of the rolling stock hall
is potentially intimidating and the random layout of rolling stock and crossover
points is confusing for visitors. To avoid this, the creation of a central crossover
and program space (a “central spine”) through the rolling stock hall can serve as a
central point for facility and subject orientation from which visitors can proceed into
the aisles to explore.
subject orientation
Subject orientation should also begin at the parking lots, continue along the
pathways, and into the lobby. Proper location and use of subject orientation will
build visitors’ anticipation and excitement as they proceed into the museum and
ultimately encourage them to purchase tickets.
The museum staff has combined themes from previous interpretive planning
exercises from six or eight to five. The visitor diagrams here focus on the
distribution of those five themes identified by the museum. However, the synthesis of
previous thematic organizations into five themes does create some uneven storyline
distributions that can be adjusted as we further develop the script.
exhibit design Challenges & opportunities
The current exhibits at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania are a mix of displays
that have been updated over the years, the end result being an array of styles and
design approaches that compete with each other. The current effort to redesign the
entire visitor experience at the museum is the perfect time to start afresh, creating a
coherent and unified approach that is accessible for visitors.
Due to the size and orientation of the museum site, the design approach needs
to provide strong visual cues that tie the museum’s identity and visitor experience
together and help lead the visitor from beginning to end. The design should
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15. connect the entire storyline together and enhance the museum’s visual presence
and recognition.
The design challenge is to create an environmental context and people stories
for a world-class rolling stock collection. The thematic sections provide a structure
with which to do that. While the core message is historical significance,
contemporary relevance should be imbued into the exhibit wherever possible.
Presentation of exhibits will be thematic rather than strictly chronological. While
acknowledging the national context of railroad history, the exhibit will stay
focused on Pennsylvania. Interpretation will cover stories of all Pennsylvania
rail lines. Humanizing the giant rolling stock by telling people stories wherever
possible will enrich the visitor experience and optimally expand the museum’s
appeal to a broader audience. The museum has a plethora of artifacts, rolling
stock, photographs, video, oral histories, and archival resources of Pennsylvania
provenance with which to tell the overall story.
Although the new HVAC system will improve conditions in the hall significantly,
conservation issues will remain a consideration. Many items requiring stringent
environmental control will need to be displayed in the upstairs gallery where
the environment can be more tightly controlled. Some sensitive items might be
displayed in climate control cases in the rolling stock hall. As an alternative to
displaying sensitive items, reproductions might be utilized instead.
Railroads are a place for bells, whistles, smoke, and smells. The exhibit will take
advantage of audio opportunities to make the exhibit multi-sensory. Kiosks for
virtual tours of railcars, low-tech interactive exhibits, and a new, more concise
yet powerful orientation video—germane to the five major exhibit themes—will
enhance the visitor experience.
The scale of the RSH poses an opportunity to “WOW” visitors. Design of the
central spine will seek to create that marvel of having arrived at a destination while
providing a core area for orientation to major exhibit themes.
The ability to interchange, move, and update exhibits is key to the success of
interpreting a collection that requires periodic “exercising” to keep the moving
parts in working order. Any exhibits directly related to particular cars or engines
in the rolling stock hall will be mobile to accommodate the need to relocate
the collection on a regular basis. Museum staff has also requested space large
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16. enough to accommodate after-hours programming and events, which
mobile exhibits can easily provide, particularly when combined with the
central spine area.
The new roundhouse will provide a venue to supplement interpretation of How
Railroads Work, Made in Pennsylvania, and Working on the Railroad as well
as a place to view and preserve additional rolling stock.
Main Message & themes
The main message for the new interpretive efforts at the Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania as identified by museum staff is:
“Railroads change(d) the way we live.”
While poignant, this message is a little too broad and therefore does not provide
adequate definition and direction for the interpretive efforts. Hilferty offers the
following amended main message options for consideration:
1. “Pennsylvania’s railroads connected people, places, and products like
never before, fundamentally changing the way we live.”
2. “Pennsylvania’s railroads connect people, places, and products, forever
changing the way we live.”
The first message fits nicely into the thematic outline as provided by the museum
staff on May 25, 2011, which focuses primarily on the history of Pennsylvania’s
railroads and how it changed the way we live by connecting people, places,
and products. The second option focuses more on the present day connection
of people, places, and products and would require the addition of much more
present-day information in the thematic outline than exists currently.
In 2010–11, the RMP exhibit staff honed the thematic outline,
consolidating it from the eight major themes identified in the
previous script and the six major themes identified in the
Hilferty Planning Phase report to five major themes:
1. Railroads and Their Impact
2. Railroads and the Pennsylvania Landscape
3. How the Railroad Works
4. Made in Pennsylvania
5. Working on the Railroad
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17. Two themes identified in the 2006 interpretive report have been deleted, with
partial contents consolidated into the revised outline:
• Legacy, Heritage and Future of the Railroads
• America on Board: the Railroad and American Ideals
Two themes identified in the Hilferty report also have been incorporated into the
new organization:
• The Cultural Impact of Railroading
• Railroads Today
The cultural legacy (literature, arts and popular culture) is accounted for in
the current Cultural Impact of Railroading within Railroads and Their Impact.
Opportunities, one of the American ideals, also find their way elsewhere as does
the Industrial Revolution (part of the ideal of progress) in the sections Railroads and
Their Impact and Working on the Railroad.
One chapter of the 2006 report seems to be completely absent from the revised
outline:
• The States Become One Nation
This material included topics such as nationwide networks, Civil War links
the nation, transcontinental railroad, standardized time (covered elsewhere),
communication networks (covered elsewhere), market opportunities (covered
elsewhere), states linked by a common culture (some of this can be covered in the
role of the local depot), politics on tour, war and patriotism (can be covered in the
role of the local depot), entertainment (perhaps could be referenced in shaping
communities/lifestyles).
The one chapter that is reconfigured from the 2006 report with a new title and
expanded content is:
• Railroads Changed the Way We Live
The current working title for this section is Railroads and Their Impact. This section
of the exhibit now embraces a disproportionate amount of content and sub-themes
compared to the other four thematic sections. During the design phase, it will be
important to find ways to disperse this content throughout the exhibit space and
explore pulling out a discrete story, like the legacy of the railroads, into a transition
to a coda for the exhibit.
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19. Visitor Experience Narrative—
Preferred Option
site treatment
Placing the Metroliner in front of the museum on the northeast side of the building
will greatly enhance the look and feel of the site. This eye-catching artifact will
provide an unmistakable visual cue that this museum is about railroads.
The main path from the parking lot to the museum is re-routed so that it leads directly
from the parking lot to the front entrance. The existing path along the building
remains as a secondary option. Signage nodes at the beginning and end of the
primary pathway provide preliminary facility and subject orientation.
The new path is lined with a few, select signal masts that underscore the museum’s
identity. Two small, recreated suburban platforms (of the same era as the Metroliner)
are placed along the path so that visitors may rest and seek shelter from inclement
weather. The east covered loggia entryway might be framed by a signal bridge,
which serves as a visual reference of the entrance location for visitors coming from
the parking lot.
design approach
The unifying design approach utilizes pen and ink style sketches representing the
many people, places, and products connected by rail over time. Sprinkled in and
among the sketches are black and white photograph reproductions from the museum’s
collection. These representations might take form as standing graphic elements,
silhouettes, hanging scrims or banners, applied graphics, or a combination and will
be shown in varying degrees of intensity. These elements are repeated throughout
the museum, both inside and out, and demarcate a path for visitors to take from the
parking lot, into the museum, and out to the roundhouse and rolling stock yard.
The people, place, and products design approach will function
as a unifying aesthetic layer that goes on top of all manner of
exhibits such as graphic panels, interactives and activities, media
presentations, artifact displays, etc. The purpose of this design
“icing” is to provide a constant tie into the main message of
railroads connecting people, places, and products. This idea will
occur time and again in the design as well as in the text, connecting
the major themes to people, places, and/or products.
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20. Within this unifying aesthetic layer, subtly different, yet distinctive color palettes for
graphics could help visitors understand and discern locations of content relating
to the big themes. Additionally, use of design ideas and conceits may help in this
identification. Graphics of people engaged in work (perhaps drawn from period
color-tinted postcards?) could help identify exhibits relating to Working on the
Railroad, while the use of a baggage cart motif as a base structure could provide
an identity for all exhibits on Railroads and their Impact. Identity of and within the
five themes will be balanced with the overall people places and products unifying
aesthetic layer.
For example, How the Railroad Works can be told through the lens of the connection
of people, places, and products. The railroad is the epitome of the intersection of
technology (people and their ideas) spurring an industry, which is driven by the need
to physically connect products (goods and materials) to places (markets).
thematic organization
An introductory film in the lobby provides a quick overview of the main messages,
followed by displays that lead visitors into the rolling stock hall. Audio-visual
elements are placed strategically throughout the hall and in the roundhouse.
The sounds of a train station play subtly in the background in certain areas and
with punctuating effect. The select use of Doppler-effect audio, which can be
used across a range of speakers, will create the feel of an arriving train, motion,
and other dynamic effects. The exterior of several railcars are used as projection
surfaces where moving images bring the cars to life. These might include a moving
wheel effect, a steam effect, or historic film footage.
The main presentations of the five main themes are located around the rolling stock
hall. Supporting portions of the story are located on exhibit “islands” throughout
the hall and roundhouse associated with the cars, engines, and displays that are
most appropriate. The use of a different color palette and/or icon for each theme
allows visitors to easily identify and follow the themes throughout the museum.
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21. Activities specifically designed for children are located in the current kids’ area as
well as sprinkled in with the rest of the exhibits. Hands-on exhibits will be logically
distributed throughout the rolling stock hall to encourage involvement by visitors
of all ages. The second floor bridge over the rolling stock hall offers several rail
height displays that provide fun facts and information relating to what visitors can
see from the overlook.
The second floor gallery is for changing exhibits as well as semi-permanent
displays of special collection items that require HVAC. Options for displays might
include a more dynamic recreation of the Pennsylvania Railroad boardroom and
an open storage area specifically for sensitive items perhaps with touch screen
smart labels that allow visitors to learn about the objects.
Visitors can take a path from the rolling stock hall to access the roundhouse, where
there are additional interpretive displays pertaining to the five themes. The rolling
stock yard includes waysides that convey basic information about a selection of the
rolling stock located outside and relates them back to the main themes.
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