Exhibit Design and Museography projects

NEIL ARMSTRONG AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

Cleveland, OH

The bold graphics which evoke motion and ascent befit the scale of the museum and complement the exhibit design. They identify exhibits while serving as their backdrop.

A circular mural around the orbit table depicts the discovery and conquest of space throughout history.
  • Exhibit Design picture, Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum
  • Museography picture, Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum

MUSEE DE LA CHARTREUSE

DOUAI, FRANCE

Originally a monastery built in 1663,
with an added Chapel completed
in 1725, the museum embodies
the evolution of religious architecture during the Renaissance.

The multisensory exhibit design introduces the collection of reclining stones, as well as the chapel and cloister architecture. Tactile plans, elevations, details, and facsimiles describe the ornamental stones, and
are accompanied by audio commentary with period music.
  • A tactile plaque helps the museography to be accessible
  • The picture of an engraving part of the exhibit design
  • An tactile information plaque attached to a Raynes Rail - Audio and Braille Rail is part of the museography
  • A tactile information plaque with a cast reproducing the ornamentation of the museum and attache to a Raynes Rail - Audio and Braille handrail empowers visually impaired visitor. It is part of the overall exhibit design

MUSEO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA

This Master Plan for an inclusive educational program addresses everyone, including children, visitors
in wheelchairs or visually impaired.

The added museography blends into
the Spanish Colonial architecture.
The multisensory itinerary allows for an autonomous visit within the general visit, highlighting typical examples of each period. The program extends to portraits: tactile drawings introduce the subjects, and audio commentaries describe them within their historic context.
  • The tactile map is part of the museography so it is accessible to visually impaired visitors
  • A Raynes rail - Braille and Audio Handrail is install next to a piece
  • This engraving part of the museography allows the inclusion of visually disabled visitor in the exhibit design
  • The tactile information plaque is part of the exhibit design

MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, ARRAS

ARRAS, FRANCE

Master Plan and implementation of
a Tactile Itinerary through medieval religious sculptures.

Black glass cartels reflect the austerity of the museum. They present raised drawings of the statues to facilitate tactile exploration.
  • An engrave plaque accompanied with braille enhanced the museography
  • A plaque with braille makes the museography accessible to visually impaired visitors

MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, VALENCIENNES

VALENCIENNES, FRANCE

The museum requested an inclusive wayfinding system that would address
blind visitors, without interfering with
the existing exhibit design.

At the entrance, a raised floor plan introduces the tactile itinerary through the museum, and a segment of Raynes Rail provides directions with distances.
At each gallery, a tactile diagram consistently guides to the statues that
can be touched and to the next gallery.
  • A tactile with Raynes Rail Audio and Braille Rail is part of the museography
  • The Tactods - Tactile flooring solution are part of the exhibit design.

MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS – Accessible Museography and Exhibit Design

CALAIS, FRANCE

In the 19th Century Gallery, visually impaired visitors can touch the Bronze Collection which includes masterpieces by Auguste Rodin.

CRA’s renovated gallery features an accessible museography and exhibit design to accommodate wheelchairs and non sighted visitors.

Statue pedestals have adapted heights, the cartels present large text with Braille, and along the walls Raynes Rails with Braille and audio provide directions and commentaries.
  • A map of the museography
  • Picture of the exhibit design after the work of Coco Raynes Associates, Inc
  • Picture of the exhibit before
  • Picture of the museography
  • picture of the exhibit design
  • Visually impaired visitor using the Raynes Rail - Audio and Braille rail as a part of the museography
  • Raynes Rail Audio and Braille Rail
  • Plaque with braille part of the museography

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