Brave Storytelling

Creative teams that build exhibits are very special to us. We’ve been lucky to join hundreds through the years, and we often end up taking on something of a dual role. We’re usually hired as an exhibit media and tech consultant, but we often end up serving as something of a coach or advocate.

We call this Brave Storytelling, and it’s all about making our collaborators feel informed and confident as we tackle the big challenges that can surround big ideas. We help exhibitors tell clear, bold stories.

Together, we’ll fearlessly wrangle raw content, even if it’s massive in scope and difficult to reduce. We’ll carefully relate hard-to-tell stories in a way that honors source communities and respects where your audience enters the picture. We’ll conquer exhibit technology to find simple, visitor-focused solutions that work for the long term. We’ll weigh your scheduling, budget and logistical options with confidence, then push forward with a solid plan. 

Whether we take a lead role or plug into your design and fabrication team, your project will have a producer and a tech advocate that speaks your language and can help build consensus on the best approach, with precise and collegial communication along the way.

Angle Park is dedicated to helping your team be its best because museums matter. These spaces–as well as spaces outside of museums that feel like exhibits–awaken imaginations and challenge viewpoints, spurring visitors to forge connections with the big ideas that shape the world.

Our Story

Angle Park, Inc. was founded in 1989 as a video company by Martin Baumgaertner, and while we still shoot and edit, video is just a portion of what we do today. Our involvement with interpretive spaces began in the late ‘90s for the Field Museum of Natural History, and we’ve maintained a close association with the Field that spans more than eighty projects. We now work exclusively for museums and organizations with experiential spaces. In these spaces where visitors and ideas come together, we create interpretive audio, video and digital interactives, and we design and install A/V technology. This multidisciplinary approach means a single point of contact for all aspects of an installation’s media and technology needs.

At our core, we are media storytellers, creating films that entertain and delight, interactives that blend depth and breadth, and atmospheric sound and projections that set just the right tone for a space. As collaborators, we make sure each stakeholder in the development process has a say and feels like their input has been valued. We help guide workgroups reach consensus on a direction, then create laser-focused media pieces that fit the arc of each space’s bigger story. The results of these collaborations have been recognized ten times with MUSE Awards for technical and aesthetic excellence by the American Alliance of Museums.

Angle Park also provides A/V system design, integration and installation, from single components to A/V packages for entire museums. On time and on budget, we install conventional audio, video and touch interactive hardware, but we also deliver large-format projections, LED video walls, external content management, lighting integration and customized interactive control via gestures, mobile devices and sensors of all types.

Angle Park is an active member of the museum community, including the Association of Midwest Museums and the Chicago Museum Exhibitors Group. We are independent and financially sound, located in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood.