Design company searches for answers after Royal Alberta Museum contract terminated – Globalnews.ca
EDMONTON — A New York-based museum designer says Albertans deserve to know why his company was fired from its work on the new Royal Alberta Museum.
“I’m very much scratching my head,” said Tom Hennes, founding principal of Thinc Design, an exhibition design firm that has worked on projects around the world,including the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Thinc Design won a bid through Alberta Infrastructure and was hired in spring 2012 to design the RAM’s galleries.
“I did a little bit of research and found out there was an incredible cultural richness in Alberta,” Hennes said over the phone from New York Monday. “I thought it was a wonderful opportunity.”
Concerned about the aboriginal history component of the exhibit, he reached out to Alberta’s indigenous communities. According to Hennes, that’s when his company’s contract with RAM was terminated.
