What Evergreen Exhibitions does

Evergreen Exhibitions is a private, San Antonio, Texas–based company founded in 1990 (formerly Clear Channel Exhibitions) that designs, produces, and distributes traveling museum exhibitions. The company maintains a portfolio of 13+ exhibitions spanning space exploration, natural history, art, cultural heritage, biology, civil rights, sports, and children's education, with titles including Vatican Splendors, Above and Beyond, BRAIN, Tyrannosaurs, Race: Are We So Different?, and Sportsology. Content is co-produced with prestige institutional partners including the Vatican Museums, Smithsonian, NASA, Boeing, and Pfizer.

The company distributes its exhibitions to 200+ museums and cultural institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and Latin America, reaching more than 30 million visitors annually. Operations are supported by a dedicated International Sales team that manages cross-region venue relationships. Technology in the portfolio includes interactive installations and augmented reality experiences — most visibly in the Tyrannosaurs exhibition — though the company operates with a notably small team of 1–10 employees relative to its global footprint.

Evergreen's business model combines exhibition-content licensing to host museums (typically structured as multi-month venue engagements with licensing/hosting fees), corporate sponsorship co-financing of production costs (e.g., Boeing, Pfizer), and access to exclusive institutional content (Vatican, NASA, Smithsonian) that differentiates the slate from in-house museum programming. The slim headcount, long operating history, and absence of disclosed capital raises indicate a capital-light, content-asset-driven business that monetizes a reusable exhibition library across a fragmented global venue base.

Name

Evergreen Exhibitions

Legal name

Evergreen Exhibitions

Website

https://evergreenexhibitions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Evergreen Exhibitions, founded in 1990 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, designs and distributes a portfolio of 13+ traveling museum exhibitions to 200+ cultural institutions worldwide, reaching 30+ million visitors annually across science, history, and art.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Traveling Museum Exhibition Services

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121), Museums (712110)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Science & Technology Museums (THAJADAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Natural History Museums (THAJADAC), Specialty Museums (e.g., Maritime, Aviation, Sports, Music, Film) (THAJADAF), Children’s Museums (THAJADAE)

Keywords

• Traveling museum exhibitions
• Science museum exhibits
• Interactive educational exhibits
• Exhibition design production
• Natural history exhibits

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Traveling Exhibition Licensing/Booking Fees: Museums and science centers pay to host traveling exhibitions at their venues for defined periods
2. Corporate Sponsorships: Fortune 500 companies sponsor exhibitions (Boeing, Pfizer, Raytheon, John Hancock, Discovery Channel, etc.) for brand visibility and educational outreach
3. Venue Revenue Share: Percentage of venue revenue contributed to content collaborators (e.g., Bat Conservation International for Masters of the Night)

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Evergreen Exhibitions conceptualizes, designs, produces, markets, and tours a portfolio of 14 large-format, immersive, multi-sensory traveling museum exhibitions for science, natural history, art, air and space, and children's museums worldwide. Museums and science centers book the exhibitions for defined hosting periods, with development funded and co-produced alongside corporate sponsors (Boeing, Pfizer, Raytheon, etc.) and content collaborators (NASA, NIH, the Vatican, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Australian Museum).

Product overview

Evergreen Exhibitions operates as a provider of traveling museum exhibitions, conceptualizing, designing, producing, marketing and touring 14 distinct exhibition products primarily for science, natural history, air and space, and children's museums. The portfolio includes large-scale immersive exhibitions like Above and Beyond (aerospace/flight), Space: A Journey to Our Future (space exploration), and Extreme Deep (oceanography); natural science exhibitions such as Sharks, Spiders, Tyrannosaurs, and Masters of the Night (bats); STEM-focused exhibitions including 2theXtreme/MathAlive! (mathematics) and The Robot Zoo (biomechanics); health/science exhibitions like BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head and The Journey to End Cancer; cultural exhibitions including Vatican Splendors and Machines In Motion (Leonardo da Vinci); and educational experiences. Exhibitions are available in multiple size configurations (2,500 to 11,000 square feet) and are developed in collaboration with respected organizations including NASA, National Institutes of Health, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Vatican, and the Australian Museum. The company offers exhibitions primarily to science, art, natural history, and children's museums worldwide, targeting family audiences and school groups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Above and Beyond A 5,000-square-foot traveling aerospace exhibition presented by Boeing in collaboration with NASA, featuring immersive simulations, interactive design challenges, and stories about flight innovation for families and students ages 7-14.
• 2theXtreme (MathAlive!) An interactive mathematics exhibition designed for grades 3-8, bringing to life the real math behind video games, sports, design, music, and robotics through immersive experiences including snowboarding simulations, robotic arm programming, and video game design activities.
• Machines In Motion (Leonardo da Vinci) A traveling exhibition featuring 40 full-scale operational machines built from Leonardo da Vinci's designs, grouped by elements (air, water, land, fire), allowing visitors to touch and operate life-sized inventions including helicopters, gliders, armored tanks, and printing presses.
• Spiders: From Fear to Fascination Created by the Australian Museum, this exhibition features more than 250 real spider specimens including live spiders, augmented reality experiences, and interactive activities allowing visitors to engage in mating rituals, hold virtual spiders, and explore spider habitats. Sized 5,000–7,500 square feet.
• Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family Created by the Australian Museum, this exhibition showcases rare fossils, 5 complete tyrannosaur cast skeletons, 7 cast skulls, and features an augmented reality experience and mobile app game with over 3.1 million downloads. Sized 6,500–10,000 square feet.
• Sharks Created by the Australian Museum, this exhibition features shark models, an immersive cylindrical theater, interactive experiences, and explores climate change effects on sharks. Sized 9,000–11,000 square feet for families and students.
• Space: A Journey to Our Future A 5,000-square-foot (also available in 3,000 sq ft) exhibition created with NASA and NSTA, featuring touchable Moon and Mars rocks, a full-size space habitat, centrifuge experiences, and artifacts exploring past, present, and future space exploration. Sponsored by General Motors and Lockheed Martin.
• The Robot Zoo (5,000 sq ft) A traveling exhibit revealing biomechanics through eight larger-than-life robot animals (chameleon, rhinoceros, giant squid with 18-foot tentacles, platypus, house fly with 10-foot wingspread, grasshopper, bat, and giraffe) and more than a dozen hands-on activities showing machine counterparts to animal anatomy. 5,000 sq ft version.
• The Robot Zoo (2,500 sq ft) A smaller 2,500-square-foot version of The Robot Zoo featuring three robot animals (chameleon, platypus, and housefly with 3-foot wing spread) and 7 hands-on activities illustrating animal biomechanics.
• Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss Presented in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, this 3,000-square-foot interactive exhibit explores deep-sea exploration including Titanic shipwreck views, remotely operated vehicle simulations, hydrothermal vents, and features the Alvin submersible and Jason ROV.
• BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head Sponsored by Pfizer Inc, this blockbuster touring exhibit uses innovative special effects, 3-D reproductions, hands-on activities, and interactive technology to explore brain processes, potentials, and mysteries.
• Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats A 2,500-square-foot exhibition debunking myths about bats and revealing their ecological importance, featuring lifelike models, hands-on interactives including bat ear simulations and echolocation activities. Target audience: 4–12 year-olds, families, and schools.
• Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art A collection of 200 rare artworks, historical objects, and cultural artifacts from the Vatican spanning 2,000 years including works by Michelangelo, Giotto, Guercino, and Bernini, a reliquary with relics of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and objects from papal tombs. Sized 5,000 square feet.
• The Journey to End Cancer: From Cause to Cure A 5,000-square-foot interactive traveling science exhibition presented by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, exploring cancer science, detection, treatment, and prevention through immersive media experiences and hands-on activities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 95% of visitors rated Above and Beyond experiences as 'Superior,' 'Excellent,' or 'Good'
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

28 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• BoeingflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational sponsor for Above and Beyond exhibition presented in collaboration with NASA and The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Boeing creates broader celebration by supporting development of activities, special aviation and aerospace events, education programs and more at local tour stops.
• NASAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on Above and Beyond exhibition celebrating flight innovation, and Space: A Journey to Our Future exhibition. Provides space artifacts and content expertise.
• Pfizer IncflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Corporate Partner for BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head exhibition. Sponsorship enables blockbuster touring exhibit exploring neuroscience.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContent Collaborator for EXTREME DEEP: Mission to the Abyss exhibition highlighting deep-sea exploration and discovery.
• The VaticancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganized and circulated in conjunction with Congregazione per l'Evangelizzazione dei Popoli of Vatican City State. Vatican Splendors features 200 rare artworks and historical objects from Vatican collections.
• Smithsonian InstitutioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPremiere venue for Vatican Splendors at National Air and Space Museum. BRAIN and 2theXtreme premiered at Smithsonian Institution. Multiple exhibitions hosted including Space.
• National Institutes of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContent Collaborator for BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head exhibition, providing neuroscience expertise.
• Society for NeuroscienceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerContent Collaborator for BRAIN exhibition.
• The Dana Alliance for Brain InitiativesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerContent Collaborator for BRAIN exhibition.
• National Council of Teachers of MathematicsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2theXtreme exhibition development.
• National Association of Professional EngineersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2theXtreme exhibition development.
• MATHCOUNTSminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2theXtreme exhibition development.
• Society of Women EngineersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2theXtreme exhibition development.
• MathMovesUminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2theXtreme exhibition development.
• Australian MuseumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreated Spiders, Tyrannosaurs, and Sharks exhibitions now touring internationally through Evergreen Exhibitions. World-renowned museum providing content expertise.
• Bat Conservation InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEvergreen contributes percentage of all venue revenue for ongoing educational outreach. Dr. Merlin Tuttle, founder, endorses Masters of the Night exhibition.
• RaytheonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorporate sponsor for 2theXtreme (MathAlive!) exhibition.
• John Hancock Financial ServicesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Corporate Partner for EXTREME DEEP: Mission to the Abyss exhibition.
• Discovery ChannelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Corporate Partner for EXTREME DEEP: Mission to the Abyss exhibition.
• TIME MagazineminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Corporate Sponsor for The Robot Zoo exhibition.
• Silicon Graphics, Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSponsor for The Robot Zoo exhibition.
• Lockheed MartinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorporate sponsor for Space: A Journey to Our Future exhibition.
• General MotorsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorporate sponsor for Space: A Journey to Our Future exhibition.
• Procter & GambleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFortune 500 sponsor for traveling museum exhibitions.
• Ford Motor CompanyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFortune 500 sponsor for traveling museum exhibitions.
• HPminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFortune 500 sponsor for traveling museum exhibitions.
• IBMminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFortune 500 sponsor for traveling museum exhibitions.
• TargetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFortune 500 sponsor for traveling museum exhibitions.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Imagine Exhibitions: A direct competitor producing traveling museum exhibitions for science centers, children's museums, and cultural institutions worldwide. Mirrors Evergreen's licensing/touring business model and Fortune 500 sponsorship approach.
• Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES): The Smithsonian's traveling exhibition arm, circulating Smithsonian-curated exhibitions to museums globally. A direct competitor to Evergreen for premium venue bookings and institutional content partnerships.
• Australian Museum: Co-develops content with Evergreen (Spiders, Tyrannosaurs, Sharks) and also creates and tours its own traveling exhibitions. A peer with overlapping natural-history exhibition production capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Science Museum Group: UK-based museum operator that also develops and licenses traveling science exhibitions. A broader incumbent with deep institutional content but overlapping exhibition production capabilities.
• National Geographic Society: Produces branded traveling exhibitions (often in partnership with museums) and shares Evergreen's model of pairing scientific/educational content with corporate sponsors. A broader media-and-exhibition incumbent.
• American Museum of Natural History: Major museum that produces and licenses traveling natural history exhibitions. A broader institutional incumbent whose exhibitions compete with Evergreen's natural history titles such as Tyrannosaurs and Sharks.

Others

• Royal Ontario Museum: Hosts Evergreen exhibitions (e.g., Spiders) and also develops its own traveling exhibitions. An adjacent institutional player with overlapping content themes but distinct operating model.
• Field Museum: Hosts Evergreen exhibitions (Masters of the Night) and licenses its own natural history content to traveling exhibitions. An institutional partner/competitor with overlapping subject matter.

Regional players

• Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand): New Zealand's national museum, which develops and tours science and cultural exhibitions primarily in the Australasian market. A regional producer with comparable exhibition-production capabilities.
• Queensland Museum: Australian museum that produces science and natural history traveling exhibitions, primarily for Asia-Pacific venues. A regional peer with overlapping subject-matter focus and touring model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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