For this exhibition, Dambrova Designs roles included: exhibit concept development, creating conceptual renderings for fund raising purposes, exhibition design, graphic design, illustration, and installation, keeping our reputation for coming in under budget and opening on schedule. Here are a few shots taken with my iphone during install. Enjoy.
This was the first of three trucks full of exhibit furniture to arrive
Monday morning.
A couple of the guys from
Southside leveling one of the sections of the taxidermy platform. All of the furniture was built with eco friendly and sustainable materials. We used a product called Lyptus Hardwood to create elegant furniture that will hold up in a gallery where children
are playing freely.
Skull replicas with toothaches? Actually adhesives setting up.
Beth watching Chen as he carefully installs a couple of moth specimens. For this exhibition one of the goals was to display specimens and objects from all of the collections areas. This interdisciplinary approach enforces the idea that everything is connected.
B is for Beautiful.
N is for New.
P is for punch list! This exhibition is 8,000 sqft with over 1,000 specimens and objects. We had two weeks to install it.
P is also for Poop. Testing adhesives for the touchable fake poop component.
Love my job!
The taxidermy platform all loaded up with critters.
This is where the some of the touchable skulls and poop comes in.
On the wall in the back we have a large variety of actual animal pelts you can touch. There are Moose, Black bear, Bobcat, and Wolverine (also shown stuffed in the foreground) to name
a few.
It's important that you get the right fake poop with the right specimen.
Where's the security screw drill bit? It's right over there in its proper place on that highly organized cart.
C is for Collect. This is a very popular exhibit component. Visitors are encouraged to select a few objects from the trough in the center of the table and put them in a bin. Then they are asked to write about why they selected the objects that they did for their collection and to write them down on a note card. After they finish they take their collection bin and data and display/store it on a shelf just like we do in the collections areas in the museum.
I is for Identify. This media interactive allows you to compare visual data from actual skulls and spear points then answer questions on the screen to identify and classify them.
Fat and skinny went to bed. Fat rolled over and skinny was dead. G is for Gigantic.
The Wandering Albatross' wingspan can get up to 12'. Here we are comparing the largest bird with one of the smallest, a humming bird. Visitors can stand in front of the silhouettes of the birds and compare them with there own size.
G is for Gigantic. Comparing arm bones from a dinosaur, a hippo, a giraffe, and that tiny white speck in the foreground is an arm bone from a shrew.
R is for Read. Several staff members involved in the exhibition were asked to pick a book they like related to museums and write about it in under 100 words. This was the one I chose.
J is for Jar. We created four 10' wide x 10' high shelves for this exhibition. One for jars, one for fossils, one for beetles, and one for mammal skeletons. These large shelves are similar to storage shelves in the collections areas. At the moment we are leaving out interpretation or any identification of specimens. This way people can just look and form there own questions.
Thats me (on the bottom shelf) with Sam Taylor, Director of the museum.
And now you know...
