exhibition design
inclusion of difference

muf have expertise in exhibition design, creating immersive and enjoyable environments that organize and communicate complex information, through spatial arrangements that include the viewer as part of the pleasure of viewing. muf have experience of interactive technology and graphic interpretation.

clients include:

Tate Britain

Royal Academy

British Council

National Portrait Gallery

Gallery 15

Client Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
2005 - ongoing

A permanent, multi-sensory installation for a refurbished nineteenth century gallery in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The installation encourages visitors to engage with the collection through all their senses - not simply through looking. Like an oversized cabinet of curiosities, the installation is big enough to wander into as well as a vantage point from which to view a range of work selected by the curators from the museum's permanent collection.
The exhibits constitute both the content and setting of the exhibition space. A mountain from the small painting of Orpheus Returning from the Underworld (hung within the gallery) is replicated as a 5 metre high, 3 dimensional landscape which in turn frames a sound piece of talking heads created in house by muf. As the visitor moves in and around the wunderkammer other exhibits and settings are revealed.

The gallery is due to open in the Autumn of 2006.

Reynolds

Client Tate Britiain
2005

Each gallery is peopled by "Chippendale" chairs coloured and upholstered to match the walls of the gallery space. The subtly shifting arrangement of this furniture across the 7 rooms is carefully positioned to correspond to the theme of each room.

Gainsborough

Client Tate Britiain
2002

An exhibition space that allowed the painting to remain unencumbered by interpretation through the production of a suite of gallery furniture where additional information is located.

The National Portrait Gallery Bodelwyddan Castle

Client National Portrait Gallery
2003
and still open to be visited

Innovative interactive design and refurbishment of existing galleries, shop and courtyard. The design enables the viewer to "step into" and inhabit the paintings as a way of communicating ideas around the practice of 19th century portrait painting

Sir Denys Lasdun Retrospective

Client Royal Academy
1996

A life's work celebrated through large scale photographs overlooking original models, drawings and video, held within a 20m table modelled in the form of Lasdun's first building: Hallfield school.

Purity and Tolerance

Client The Architecture Foundation
1997

An immersive environment as critique of the concept of the white cube exclusive gallery space.

Lost and Found

Client British Council
2001

Touring exhibition of British designers: 96 exhibits in five European cities.