TimeLooper

TimeLooper is an exhibition design firm focused on museums and cultural institutions. Its work spans interpretive master planning and exhibit strategy, visitor experience and exhibit design, architectural and spatial design, immersive and interactive media, custom software and digital platforms, inclusive and accessible exhibition design, graphics and environmental design, and advisory work on financial and operational sustainability.

The firm positions storytelling as the starting point of each project and layers technology on top of it, including AI-driven personalization, immersive digital media, and AR/VR interactivity. It states that its proprietary AI and data-driven platforms adapt exhibit content in real time to a visitor's language, comprehension level and interests, and that AI-driven workflows compress traditional multi-year museum design timelines into months. Accessibility and community participation are described as design principles, with universal design intended to serve visitors of differing cultures, abilities, backgrounds and languages, and with local historians and cultural stakeholders involved in shaping content.

Business model

TimeLooper works on a project basis for museums and public-sector cultural clients, acting as prime contractor or lead exhibition designer and delivering concept, design, build, fabrication management and deployment. Its service set also includes ongoing digital platforms and software, and strategy work aimed at helping exhibitions generate long-term revenue.

Traction

Published case studies include an immersive digital experience at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial for Pacific Historic Parks and the National Park Service; an immersive interactive museum at the Gettysburg Lincoln Railroad Station for the Gettysburg Foundation and the National Park Service; a museum at Historic Bethel Baptist Church, the church of civil rights leader Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth; the Columbia Air Center Exhibition at the College Park Aviation Museum in Prince George's County, Maryland, where TimeLooper was prime contractor and lead exhibition designer; the Sankofa Project Mobile Interpretive Center for Prince George's County's Department of Parks & Recreation; and Carolina Rising, a new museum in Gaffney, South Carolina, on Cherokee County's role in the American Revolution, where the firm was prime contractor.