Evergreen Exhibitions Chooses Schipul - The Web Marketing Company for 'Vatican Splendors' Launch

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - February 14, 2008) - Evergreen Exhibitions, one of the world's premier providers of traveling museum exhibits, has awarded its 'Vatican Splendors' Web site project to Schipul - The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com). The Vatican Splendors exhibit, which will visit just a few select U.S. cities, is one of the largest collections of Vatican art, documents and historically significant objects ever viewed in North America.

Previously, Schipul developed Evergreen Exhibition's corporate Web site and its highly successful site promoting its 'SPACE: A Journey to Our Future' traveling exhibit.

The Vatican Splendors exhibit Web site, www.vaticansplendors.com, was designed by Schipul and is powered by Tendenci Web marketing software. Schipul will assist Evergreen Exhibitions in providing exhibit information as well as assisting in promoting each host museum through the Web site. The Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. introduced the exhibit on February 9th for a limited engagement.

"The Vatican Splendors exhibition offers a very powerful visual experience, so we wanted a strong multi-media presentation that would reflect the experience virtually," said Mike Kempf, vice president, national marketing for Evergreen Exhibitions. "The site will support the communications needs of the tour and will also extend the broader goal of providing a window into the Vatican's impact on history and culture through 2,000 years."

The Web site's rich colors and fine details capture what visitors will find in the exhibit. The site features a brief video tour, two photo galleries and details about each of the exhibit's four thematic sections, which include:

--  Foundations of the Church;
--  500 Years of the Vatican;
--  The Work of the Pope; and
--  Stories of the Popes.
    

The Web site also features a downloadable guide for teachers and specifics about each of the three cities that will host the Vatican Splendors exhibit. After St. Petersburg, it travels to Cleveland and then to St. Paul, Minn. The exhibit features approximately 200 rare objects presented in contextual environments, such as the recreated tomb of Saint Peter. One of the exhibition's most dramatic rooms gives visitors a chance to experience what it was like for Michelangelo to stand on the scaffolding near the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Evergreen Exhibitions conceptualizes, designs, produces, markets and tours its traveling museum exhibits, primarily in science, art, natural history and children's museums. The exhibits use educational concepts to create high quality, immersing, multi-sensory, entertaining and educational experiences for family audiences.

About Schipul - The Web Marketing Company

Schipul - The Web Marketing Company developed and builds on the Tendenci association management application, which was used by over 170,000 people worldwide over the past year and has more than a half million users overall. Schipul is based in Houston, and provides marketing services on the Internet to nearly 400 organizations from a variety of service industries in local, national and international markets. Schipul's nonprofit clients include the Web Analytics Association, Houston Zoo and the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, among many others. Additional information about Schipul is available at www.schipul.com and www.tendenci.com.

Contact Information: Contact: Dan Keeney, APR DPK Public Relations 832-467-2904