National Maritime Museum, Cornwall

Falmouth
2003, £4 million

Fraser Randall acted as the Project, Content and Design Manager for the integrated shell and core and exhibition fit out of this HLF funded project.

A new, state of the art, waterfront building was constructed to house the National Maritime Museum’s small boat collection and other galleries, exploring every aspect of maritime life in purpose built surroundings. The Architects and Exhibition design team were appointed on the same day to ensure the best possible integrated design process between the building and its contents, and the project is now held up as an outstanding example of such thinking.

The exhibitions are housed in seven galleries, covering 2400sqm. Displays have been designed to rotate and enable frequent collection change, and the project required extensive design team management from the outset, to achieve fully co-ordinated structure, electrical and design works.

The experiential “Dark Gallery” featuring large scale collections integrated with large scale AV has been nominated for several multi media awards.

Design Week Award, Permanent Exhibition - 2004

Landmark Waterfront Building at the 2005 Civic Trust Awards

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