Birds: Bizarre & Brilliant
Client: Natural History Museum
Created in affiliation with the RSPB, this exhibition at the Natural History Museum is the first to focus on our feathered friends in over 20 years, aiming to raise awareness of the new dangers facing birds and empower visitors to take action to protect them.
The exhibition follows the story of birds from surviving the dinosaurs to becoming one of the most diverse and extraordinary groups of animals in the world, exploring their day-to-day life and behaviours on a thrilling odyssey where the ancient past and the vibrant present collide in a symphony of colour, flight and survival.
Our design uses the full volume of the Waterhouse gallery to house site specific installations and places natural and manmade interventions alongside one another encouraging multiple perspectives.
By using the gallery itself as the architecture of the design and keeping interventions minimal and lightly placed, this bold and dramatic approach, which fully integrates AV elements, results in a seamless storytelling landscape - one where we imagine a positive co-existence of humans with nature - a world where birds are allowed to thrive.
Our role:
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Exhibition design
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Graphic design concept with Surface 3
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AV software design & creative direction with PALMA Studio
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Lighting design concept with Studio ZNA
Images: © Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
