Below you can see examples of several major exhibit design projects that I’ve completed recently at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, a new natural history museum in Vancouver. Each of these includes a brief description of the project, as well as a breakdown of the basic design elements.
The most visible educational elements in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum are the shadowbox displays. These displays educate visitors on biodiversity, and are embedded within the cabinets that store the museum’s collections. I have designed one third of the 122 shadowbox displays found throughout the museum.
While not as readily visible as the shadowbox displays, the drawer units comprise the bulk of the educational content at the museum. Each of these thirty-two units has seven displays and each explores a cohesive theme. I have designed over one third of the 224 drawers and drawer tops.
Each of the 1188 cabinets in the museum is marked with a label. There are two types of labels: one which introduces a given group, while the other engages visitors with the cabinet contents. I designed over half of the cabinet labels and managed the project from the initial design process all the way through to final fabrication and installation.
