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Thinktank Press Articles

Birmingham Post

27th September 2001

"Imagine Millennium Point as a big box. Frankly, its not that difficult, particularly when you look at it from the Curzon Street frontage. Now imagine that you want to create a state-of-the-art technology museum and visitor attraction inside it, reflecting the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the past, present and future.

That’s when you send for consultants Fraser Randall, specialists in matching exhibition concepts to building shells by drawing together the appropriate exhibits, curators and designers."

Lighting and Sound Magazine

October 2001

"Buro Happold Fraser Randall has been responsible for taking the completed design, and organising the technical specifications, tendering and procurement for over 110 different contractors and suppliers to work on the various areas of the fit-out."

Museums Journal

November 2001

"What did I make of Thinktank? I am among the most technologically challenged of human beings and share with David Hockney the Knowledge that when it comes ‘to hi-tech, you always end up with scissors’. But I came away from Birmingham with more understanding and enthusiasm for things scientific than ever before. The museum is what all instituitions should be - hignly provocactive."

"Thinktank is full of colour, light, sound and movement. It is hyper-interactive. This Barnum and Bailey razzmatazz is the museums greatest strength."

FX Magazine

December 2001

"Once upon a time, kids would roll their eyes and sulk at the prospect of going to museums; they were worthy places you went on school trips to do brass rubbings and find out how a steam engine worked. These days they’re not even called museums, as all-bleeping, flashing interacting infotainment has taken the place of dry academia."

"Creating yet another centre based on scientific principles wasn't what this was about nor was the 'big science, little me' concept which so often seems to come across when when dealing with the public and this subject" - Nick Fraser