Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center

Visit the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center website

The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center’s mission is to gather, preserve, and share the rich history of multicultural logging in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past 6 years, we've worked with MHIC to update their brand, design an interactive kiosk for their Timber Culture photo archive, create moveable environmental installations for their traveling exhibition, and build a website to promote their work. 

On the website, history comes to life through storytelling. Historical photographs take center stage to convey the Interpretive Center’s focus on the unique time and township of Maxville, Oregon, as well as the breadth of their archival collection. Inspired by wood-block lettering and the palette of the Wallowa forests in Central and Eastern Oregon, type and color bring Maxville’s natural setting into the digital space, while straightforward navigation and an easy-to-update CMS make the site intuitive for visitors and Interpretive Center staff alike.

The Timber Culture Traveling Exhibit tours museums, universities, libraries, and state buildings nationwide, and the artifacts it features needed their stories to travel along with them. Immersive, accessible, and compact in nature, we designed a tablet-sized interactive kiosk to allow exhibit goers to take a closer look while taking in the physical gallery. With simple navigation and interactive wayfinding, deeper context is right at visitor fingertips.

In the physical space, brand elements combine with historical photographs on retractable banners and wall installations to engage learners of all ages. On promotional materials, from digital invitations to brochures to billboards, exhibit details and the faces of Maxville are front-and-center, inviting modern-day community members to celebrate and honor this inclusive community of the past.