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Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) are planners, designers, and producers of award-winning museum exhibitions, visitor centers, and educational environments. Subject areas range from natural history and the physical sciences, to cultural, social, and corporate history, sports, and the fine arts. Founded in 1978, and currently the largest interpretive museum design firm in the world, RAA has an interdisciplinary staff of more than seventy-five specialists in different aspects of design and communications: technology and media specialists, architects, writers, editors, and management personnel; and has 125 built projects. The firm is best known for large-scale, permanent museum projects requiring a marriage of complex educational content with physical environments that are at once compelling and smoothly operational. More modest projects cover a wide range of services that address special needs and special phases in institutional or corporate development. Notable among these are master planning, fund-raising strategies and materials, outreach concepts, temporary exhibitions, media programs, library and theater design, publication and promotional design, and public monuments and memorials.