Melbourne Museum - Our Wondrous Planet
We won a tender to work on a new major anchor gallery at the Melbourne Museum.
With a lifespan of 15 years and a projected 10 million visitors, this was a high profile project with an important message of shaping a positive future for our diverse planet, for ourselves and all the animals we share it with.
The exhibition focuses on immersive environments to represent ecosystems, and our role in developing the multimedia was to ask visitors: how can you make a difference? Most of the pieces were interactive, to leave a more lasting impression with the audience.
We used large scale abstract animations to support the feeling of flow throughout the space, mostly using 3D models to make the environments and animals feel as real as possible.
Given the permanent nature of the exhibition, it was important the media style was timeless. We spent a long time in design exploration as part of our pre-production process, finding a style that was artistic and would also stand the test of time.
The show features over 700 objects from state collections, and the range of hyper realistic taxidermy through to interpretative artistic works does well to capture our wondrous planet from all angles.
We sought to evoke a feeling rather than a literal representation of nature. It was important the gallery felt like a living space, with environments seamlessly flowing from one habitat to another, and with gestural animals inviting visitors to follow as they glide across the walls.
This was a special project, and it was surreal to see our work projected onto the ceilings, floors and walls of such an iconic Melbourne space.
