Everhart Museum exterior banners
Home to a taxidermy collection of over 700 bird specimens, the Bird Gallery at the museum has been a visitor favorite since 1908. This image was sourced from an archived museum newsletter.
The Everhart Museum, established 1908, is located in Scranton’s beloved Nay Aug Park.
For the banner redesign, I focused the messaging to describe what the museum continues to accomplish since its founding. Using verbs like Revealing, Inspiring, and Preserving, in tandem with imagery and artifacts from the collection, the banners celebrate the core tenets of the museum – natural history, science, local and folk art, mining heritage, and ornithology – as well as the vibrancy of the park it resides in.
See also the post about the museum’s general identity.
The Enlightening banner is a lithograph, Coal Town, by local artist, Michael J. Gallagher (1898–1965). The artwork not only speaks to the mining heritage of the area, but also the style of home that many families still live in today.
At the beginning of spring, a nearby bush sprouts beautiful flowers matching this exact shade of purple. The artwork featured here is Shimmering Wisteria by local artist and screen printer Jon Carsman (1944–1987). The museum holds many of his works.
The Revealing banner incorporates several of the fossils on display in the Natural History and Science galleries.
The Discovering banner is a collection of Dr. Everhart’s pressed flowers from his world travels. It not only speaks to the nature within the park, but to the founder’s curiosity and whimsy.
