Museum Bento Services

Museum Bento brings the rich history and cultures of the Asia Pacific Region to life through thought-provoking stories and experiences.

Our specialty services include interpretive writing, consulting, editing and program development.

Our Services

Program Design and Development

Museum Bento creates and designs customized programs for schools, libraries and cultural organizations.

Our portable bento boxes bring the arts and heritage of Asia to young people through the magic of puppets, stories and hands-on art objects.

Recent clients include Telus World of Science and the Museum of Migration.

Interpretive Writing

Museum Bento brings meaning to cultural projects through engaging, well-crafted storytelling, research and interpretation.

Our writing services include:

  • Exhibits and interpretive writing
  • Video games
  • Immersive environments (VR/AR)
  • Interactive narrative
  • Articles
  • Research reports
  • Web writing, including blogs
  • Travel writing

Past clients include the Royal BC Museum, Lonely Planet Publications, Fodor's (Penguin-Random House), Culinary Institute of America, Time Out, Sarika and Fah Thai Magazine.

Editing

Museum Bento has over twenty years of professional editing experience and can help craft your organization's prose and help people make sense of, and understand more about, a site, collection, program or event.

We specialize in these areas of editing:

  • Structural editing: story structure & organization
  • Copy editing: grammar, spelling & punctuation
  • Proofreading: typos, spelling, vocabulary errors

Clients include Fodor's (Penguin-Random House), Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Publishing House and Premiere Exhibitions.

Fact-Checking

Museum Bento can fact-check and verify research through multiple channels and resources, making sure that the project is accurate, error free and culturally sensitive. We can verify citations, image sources and resource lists.