Category: permanent exhibition

26
Jun
2018

BEING SAUDI?

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CLIENT: KING ABDULAZIZ CENTER FOR WORLD CULTURE
PROJECT: CONCEPT PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: MUSEUM DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: DHAHRAN, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
KVORNING designed an exhibition concept for the Saudi Culture and Heritage Gallery at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
The first exhibition at the Saudi Culture and Heritage Gallery addresses the question What does it mean to be a Saudi?
The contract was won in international competition. Exhibition Design: KVORNING. Detail Design and Realisation: Qdesign and CRAFT.
26
Jun
2018

AT THE BORDER

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CLIENT: HELSINGBORG MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: PÅ GRÆNSEN, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: MUSEUM DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN
KVORNING won the Swedish Dunkers Kulturhus’s exhibition På Gränsen [At the Border] in international competition. På Gränsen is a permanent exhibition about what makes a person a person and Helsingborg Helsingborg, with lots of exciting local features, stories and events.
The person is central to the exhibition, and so too the border perspective – geographically, politically, morally, humanly. The exhibition encourages visitors to transcend borders, both externally and internally within themselves, and it attempts to explain what history really is – and who makes it.
Is it the visitor him/herself? Is it the exhibition venue? Or something entirely different? Dunkers Kulturhus houses more than 3,000 sq.m of exhibition space, opening some 10 new high-grade international exhibitions every year.
15
Jun
2018

MORTEN SMITH PETERSEN

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CLIENT: GRIMSTAD BYS MUSEER
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: MUSEUM DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS, BRAND EXPERIENCES AND VISITOR CENTRES
LOCATION: GRIMSTAD, NORWAY
In international competition The Museum Foundation of Grimstad in Southern Norway chose KVORNING to create a permanent exhibition about fellow townsman Morten Smith Petersen (1817-1872) – one of the first and most influential Norwegian ship-owners, who also practiced law and politics.

KVORNING designed the exhibition about Morten Smith Petersen’s significant influence on local, national and international matters. The setting being Hasseldalen in Grimstad, which Smith Petersen bought in 1848. Here, his ships were crafted and he built his shipping business.

As a ship-owner and businessman Smith Petersen was a keen advocate of modernizing and professionalizing the Norwegian shipping trade and as a politician he believed strongly in free trade and the “autonomy of the shipping companies”. Smith Petersen was also co-founder of Det norske Veritas in 1864.

14
Jun
2018

Alta Rock Art World Heritage

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CLIENT: ALTA MUSEUM
PROJECT: TRACES IN STONE, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
LOCATION: ALTA, NORWAY
KVORNING masterminded the World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum’s 150 sq.m exhibition, Traces in Stone, about Alta’s world heritage, rock art, in Norway. A modern, interactive exhibition about the rock art of Alta including UNESCO-protected rock carvings and rock paintings made approximately 7,000 to 2,000 years ago. Alta has Northern Europe’s largest occurrence of rock art from the hunter-gatherer society. It constitutes the most important evidence of settlements and human activity so far north during prehistoric times. And as a result it was added to UNESCO’s world heritage list in 1985.
The permanent exhibition offers plenty of interaction and entertainment for everyone. Here, for example, visitors young and old can sculpt out a rock carving, go exploring in the history of Alta in the Landscape Game and generate luminescent rock carvings in the dark by lamplight. Traces in Stone offers experiences and activities that wow, inform, generate debate and provide food for thought. The exhibition also includes a selfie booth with Northern Lights, buttons and infographics that conjure up and animate the magic of the spirit world of the past.
“With Traces in Stone we invite the public to enjoy experiences, participation and exploration, while at the same time encouraging their curiosity and engagement. The exhibition provides an altogether different experience to previous exhibitions, and visitors will learn about rock art by using both their hands and their heads. The museum has been working on the exhibition for many years, and we are extremely proud that we can now show it off to both the local population and all our visitors,” states Harriet Hagan, Manager of the World Heritage Rock Art Centre at Alta Museum.

 

31
Oct
2017

LEGO House – History Collection

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CLIENT: LEGO® HOUSE
PROJECT: BRAND EXPERIENCE
TYPOLOGY: BRAND EXPERIENCES AND VISITOR CENTRES
LOCATION: BILLUND, DENMARK
In a continuous, close collaboration with the LEGO Group’s employees within the historic branch, KVORNING designed and developed the permanent exhibition for the History Collection in the base of the LEGO House; the 12,000 square metre Brand Experience in Billund, Denmark.

As grown-ups and kids head down the stairs, or descend by the elevator, into the basement and the History Collection, they are welcomed by a 2 x 2 metre logotype. Here they explore their own childhood through the gems of the exhibition: LEGO products conveying the company’s long history though significant milestones, drawings and models. Everything a true Lego fan could possibly imagine. Also animations of kids playing in classic scenarios.

Halfway through the collection visitors will see a light which lures them into a room resembling the interior of a giant LEGO brick. An exhibition of original LEGO models and boxes through decades. Anyone can find a cherished LEGO box, either as a physical model or on the interactive table displaying more than 5,000 LEGO boxes. In big round showcases and along the walls are hundreds of original models and boxes on display to stir dear memories.

 

 

26
Jun
2017

Deep Secrets

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CLIENT: NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM MUSEUM
PROJECT: DEEP SECRETS, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
TYPOLOGY: MUSEUM DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: STAVANGER, NORWAY
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger and KVORNING have launched the exhibition, Deep Secrets, about petroleum geology. The concept features a distinctive key idea accompanied by stunningly grand visual effects and offer facts and knowledge in a pioneering form.
Deep Secrets is pure Jules Vernes! Exploration, activities and drama, lots of challenges for hearts and minds, analogue and digital attractions which stimulate collaboration, learning and play, the exhibition appeals to 12-year olds – and thus involves entire families.
The permanent exhibition was won in invited competition.

 

 

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