Client
Estonian Road Museum
Location
Varbuse, Estonia
Year
2019
Exhibition area
1,500 m²
Scope of work
Concept design, exhibition design and development, multimedia concept and content development, CVI and project management.
Client:
Estonian Road Museum
Location:
Varbuse, Estonia
Year:
2019
Exhibition area:
1,500 m²
Scope of work
concept design, exhibition design and development, multimedia concept and content development, CVI and project management.
description
Estonian Road Museum is a family-oriented experiential museum in Southern Estonia at the spot of 160 years old Varbuse postal station. Despite its remote location, Estonian Road Museum attracts many car and machine enthusiasts and families with children each year. The museum first opened in 2005 with the purpose to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of Estonian roads, road building and traffic heritage. To be in step with the times, the museum decided to renew its permanent exhibition, which was opened to the public in 2019.
Estonian Road Museum is a family-oriented experiential museum in Southern Estonia at the spot of 160 years old Varbuse postal station. Despite its remote location, Estonian Road Museum attracts many car and machine enthusiasts and families with children each year. The museum first opened in 2005 with the purpose to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of Estonian roads, road building and traffic heritage. To be in step with the times, the museum decided to renew its permanent exhibition, which was opened to the public in 2019.
Our scope of work on the project included planning the exhibition of Machinery hall. Partially built on the old constructions of the old machinery hall, the space houses some new and some older dwellers from the realm of vehicles. The new exhibition is divided both spatially and notionally into three coherent parts. The central space houses an interactive traffic safety exposition, the two side spaces introduce Estonian road machinery and most typical private vehicles through the decades.
Our scope of work on the project included planning the exhibition of Machinery hall. Partially built on the old constructions of the old machinery hall, the space houses some new and some older dwellers from the realm of vehicles. The new exhibition is divided both spatially and notionally into three coherent parts. The central space houses an interactive traffic safety exposition, the two side spaces introduce Estonian road machinery and most typical private vehicles through the decades.
The overlapping theme of the exhibition is the two-fold relationship between cars and humans – cars are a source of both convenience and excitement, while at the same time posing daily risks to their makers. Each part of the exhibition discusses the importance and potentiality of managing cars in its own way. The topics include car culture or how did cars turn from luxury items to basic commodities; traffic safety – an interactive exposition of ruled of mechanics and safe driving; and road machinery – 150 tons of road machinery to illustrate how machines and engineers have built roads and managed them throughout the past century.
We designed the concept of the exhibition, planned the hands-on and interactive exhibits, multimedia and created the graphic design of the project.
The overlapping theme of the exhibition is the two-fold relationship between cars and humans – cars are a source of both convenience and excitement, while at the same time posing daily risks to their makers. Each part of the exhibition discusses the importance and potentiality of managing cars in its own way. The topics include car culture or how did cars turn from luxury items to basic commodities; traffic safety – an interactive exposition of ruled of mechanics and safe driving; and road machinery – 150 tons of road machinery to illustrate how machines and engineers have built roads and managed them throughout the past century.
We designed the concept of the exhibition, planned the hands-on and interactive exhibits, multimedia and created the graphic design of the project.
