Explore the Work

Michael left us with more than 15,000 digital images and 60-75 linear feet of documents, letters, sketches, plans, collateral, photographs, and other physical materials spanning more than 128 projects (and counting). The collection reflects the deeply collaborative and experimental nature of Michael’s career and the radical evolution of the museum design field in the 20th century.

We currently have approximately 8,000 items catalogued in the database and are adding items as time allows. To stay tuned into new additions, subscribe to the Archives Update newsletter.

The vast majority of items are digital images Michael converted from slides before his death. We continue to add physical items as we catalog them but, like many, have been hampered by the pandemic. Feel free to reach out if you’re looking for something specific.

Clients and projects

Allen County Museum and Historical Society

American Science and Engineering

Aptekar Arts Management

Boston 200 Corporation

Boston Children’s Museum

Boston Computer Museum

Boston Museum of Science

Boston Zoological Society

Boy Scouts of America

Capital Children’s Museum

City of Boston

City of New Bedford, Dept. of Environmental Management

  • New Bedford Waterfront Development RFP and Proposal

Committee for the Better Use of Air

D’Angelo’s Grilled Sandwiches

  • D’Angelo’s Identity

Denver Children’s Museum

  • Denver Children’s Museum

Dream Machine, Inc.

  • Dream Machine Signage

Drummey, Rosane, Anderson, Inc. (now DRA Architects)

  • Gateway Regional High School Signage System

Dynamic Skis

  • Dynamic Skis Graphics

Ealing Films

  • Ealing Films Packaging

Education Development Center (EDC)

  • Exploring Human Nature
  • From Subject to Citizen: Making of the Revolution (Booklet)
  • Hynes Auditorium, 1972
  • Magnum Family of Man
  • Man: A Course of Study

Eureka! An Interactive Learning Center for Children

  • Eureka! Master Plan

Gershman’s Pizza

  • Gershman’s Pizza Logo

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dept. of City and Regional Planning

  • Harvard Planning Series Packaging

IBM

  • Eames’ Mathematica

L.E. Mason Co.

  • Red Dot Lighting Identity and Graphics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  • Do Your Thing at MIT

Massachusetts Office of Planning and Programs

  • Massachusetts OPPC Slideshow

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA)

  • Macomber Farm…Then and Now

Massachusetts State Archives’ Commonwealth Museum

  • By What Right…The Constitution and Civil Liberties

Michael Sand

  • Bronze Bust
  • Hallmark Gallery “Flying Kites” Exhibit
  • Harlem on My Mind
  • Personal Travel: Europe
  • Personal Travel: Metropolitan Museum of Art Visit, 1983
  • Personal Travel: Miscellaneous
  • Street Photography: Berkeley, CA Protests
  • Street Photography: Cambridge, MA Protests

Muncie Children’s Museum

  • Muncie Children’s Museum

Museum of Our National Heritage

  • Folk Roots, New Roots: Folklore In American Life

Museum of Science and Industry

  • The Design Science of Buckminster Fuller

Plymouth Plantation

  • Plymouth Plantation Curriculum Materials

RIX Drug Stores

  • RIX Identity

Sesame Workshop

  • Sesame Place

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

  • Trends Affecting the U.S. Health Care System

Washington D.C. Public Schools

Wasserman Development Corporation

  • Garage Mall, Cambridge MA

Whale Discovery Center

  • Whale Discovery Center

Whitehead Institute

  • Whitehead Institute Letterhead

Misc. Projects

  • ABT CBS Environmental Game
  • Architecture of Museums
  • AT&T Infoquest Center
  • Brandeis Jewish Family Exhibit
  • 1976 Metropolitan Cultural Alliance Conference

“What’s important is to see who leaves first, the parent or the child. There’s an honesty in the child’s response. That’s what I’m after—not an aesthetic design result, especially, but the reality of the hands-on experience.”

Michael Sand
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