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Michael Lee Design specializes in planning, designing, and producing interpretive centers, museums and zoos. We believe it is essential that learning involves interactive, immersive experiences.

Each year the Academy hosts thousands of guests in Hollywood for their annual awards program, known as “The Oscars”. Michael Lee Design was engaged by AMPAS to plan and conceptually design a walk-through museum to be called “The Oscar Experience” which would showcase the making of the statuettes, the films that have been awarded the Oscar, and those producers, directors, writers, actors and craftspersons who have been honored.

The National Arbor Day Foundation engaged Michael Lee Design to design a regional learning entertaining destination, to further the foundation's mission and generate additional revenue. Michael Lee Design devised an indoor-outdoor Tree Adventure that includes interactive exhibits, a retail store, and an interpretive tree house trail. In addition, MLD produced Meet Mr. Morton in which the conservationist and founder of Arbor Day, J. Sterling Morton appears to guests in his greenhouse to tell the story of Arbor Day. The anchor attraction is a specialty film titled, Trees in the Movies. This film, produced and directed by MLD, showcases the story of trees through the perspective of more than 90 classic Hollywood movies.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians hired MLD to continue in the development of their Pearl River Resort by having MLD conceptualize the "Choctaw Cultural Center". The project included Pushmataha Memorial located to the rear of the Cultural Center and other tribal amenities.

Michael Lee Design, under the aegis of the Lyon Group, conducted preliminary planning and concept design for Harley-Davidson to explore the opportunities of building an attraction venue to showcase the motor cycle company and its products, and the grand adventure, culture, technologies and philosophies of the motor cycle world.