British Museum – Parthenon Gallery

Our senior designer Graham Simpson left Minale Tattersfield in 1993 to work full time as an exhibition designer at the British Museum and worked there for five years. He later rejoined Minale Tattersfield where he now leads our team of interior designers. Graham says, “Working for one of the world’s major museums  for five years has added immeasurably experience in the processes and management skills required when working with priceless works of art and cultural heritage”.

In the following major exhibition Graham and his team designed the layout, the interior architecture, the showcases and the displays.

The Parthenon Gallery comprises two separate rooms providing an introduction to the Parthenon. One room displays original stone fragments with an AV presentation on the construction methods including a realistic walk-through of the interior. There is a full size reconstruction of one corner of the Parthenon, using one of the original stone columns. 

The second room is specially designed to accommodate disabled visitors, employing a number of hands on sensory experiences to explain the design of the frieze and the building’s decorative details. A special graphic system was developed to provide visually impaired visitors the opportunity to understand the detail of the perimeter frieze, parts of which they can touch. 

Friday, 30 April 2010 | Posted in , , | 0 Comments

British Museum – Greek Bronze Age

During the early part of the Greek Bronze Age, the people of the Aegean islands known as the Cyclades began to produce items made from copper, silver, lead and fine white marble.

The Mycenaean period of the later Greek Bronze Age was viewed by the Greeks as the 'age of heroes' and perhaps provides the historical background to many of the stories told in later Greek mythology, including Homer's epics.

We designed the layout of the gallery chronologically to enable the visitor to travel through 1700 years of early Greek history. For the interior architecture we used natural stone for the floors and plinths to reflect the building materials used in the great palaces and civic architecture. We designed the showcases to display the pottery, bronzes and stone vases of the period.

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British Museum – Mysteries of Ancient China

In the following major exhibition for Mysteriers of Ancient China, Graham Simpson, Minale Tattersfiled's senior exhibition designer created and designed the layout, the interior architecture, the showcases and the displays. This was The British Museum’s largest and most successful exhibition since Tutankhamen and achieved critical acclaim and a Design Week Award.

The unique collection of recent tomb discoveries, ranging from small pieces of jewellery to large bronze and terracotta castings, were being shown outside China for the first time. The exhibition covered the period from about 5000BC to the end of the Han Dynasty in 200AD.

Traditional Chinese architecture linking public and private space with courtyards and openings in structures influenced the orientation of the layout and the design, enhancing the visitor’s appreciation of the objects on show. 

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British Museum - Vases & Volcanoes

In the following major exhibition for The Britsh Museum, Minale Tattersfield's exhibition designers created and designed the layout, the interior architecture, the showcases and the displays for the private collection of Sir William Hamilton.

Sir William Hamilton’s collection, was formed whilst he was the ambassador in Naples during the 18th century. The collection included objects from the ancient past, Greek and Roman, as well as natural specimens from the slopes of Mt Vesuvius. The exhibition bought together this substantial collection as a celebration of the period and the life and times of Sir William.

The visitor was transported back into the period of the 'Grand Tour' with the staging of the exihibition in a setting of 18th century interior design, using architectural forms, detailing and colours evocative of the period.

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Science Museum - Launch Pad

Launch Pad is the most visited gallery in the Science Museum and offers a real hands-on way to experience a variety of mechanical and scientific activities. Children can play with a two way mirror, check out electrical currents, spin on a platform to experience centrifugal force, walk along a suspension bridge, pump water into a high level cistern, move grain around a circuit with cogs, wheels and pulleys and project their voice across the gallery with giant sound dishes.

We were the lead consultants and designed the layout, display structures, interiors, display cases and the outward appearance of the interactive exhibits.

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Science Museum – Space Gallery

The gallery was created to update the story of space exploration including the latest technical development in long distance space probes. A circular imprint in the floor traces out the diameter of an Apollo rocket with an actual propulsion unit displayed nearby. Large space vehicles previously held in storage were put on display for the first time, suspended from the upper floor slab in a setting which was designed to represent a space highway. A new interactive mission control centre with roll playing activities such as ‘launch a rocket’ were formed in the centre of the gallery.

We were the lead consultants and designed the layout, display structures, interiors, display cases and the outward appearance of the interactive exhibits.

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London Transport Museum

As part of the refurbishment programme for the London Transport Museum, Minale Tattersfield was asked to design a new identity and signage. The idea was to create an identity that would evoke the classic London Transport identity and commemorate the relationship between a great urban transport system and the people using it – past, present and future.

The symbol that we designed showed three different ages of London Transport travel. From a top hatted Victorian gentleman to a modern passenger, speed is communicated through movement lines which increase through the ages. We also designed a suite of literature and produced a guidelines manual to ensure the identity was applied correctly and consistently throughout.

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