Chattanooga, TN
The stories behind the nation's highest military decoration.
From May 2018 through opening in February 2020, Encore led the project team as interpretive planner, content developer, and primary experiential designer for the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center. The 10,000 sq. ft. main gallery and 2,000 sq. ft. temporary gallery space were delivered on time and on budget, eighteen months start to finish.
Working at the client's request for life-like characters, Encore created a timeline of twenty realistic scenes based on conflicts in American history. Each scene placed full-size plaster figures of recipients in uniform, carefully researched and precisely sculpted to match facial features, in the action positions and environments that best represented their Medal citation.
In March 2025, Encore returned to create the Captain Larry L. Taylor exhibit, an immersive environment built around a full-sized replica of Taylor's AH-1G Cobra helicopter, life-sized sculptures of the men he saved, and authentic historical artifacts including his uniform, flight helmet, and military log. A second exhibit, Super 64 Immersive Theater, is currently in development, using 360° projection and hydraulic Blackhawk seats to recreate the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu.
