C2award
Winner 2022 / Exhibition design / Museum exhibitions

Australian Muslim History Gallery - Islamic Museum of Australia

  • Prize
    Winner in Museum exhibitions / Exhibition design
  • Company
    Arterial Design
  • Lead
    Jan Nowell
  • Team
    Nick Lawson, Sandun Jayasinghe, Michael Maginness, Brodie Lowe, Alberto Ledesma and Varshna Dhamodaran
  • Client
    Islamic Museum of Australia
  • Credits
    Tania Jovanovic
  • Video

The Australian Muslim History Gallery digital upgrade was an opportunity to celebrate the interplay of physical artefacts and their digital augmentation, with face-to-face interactions with notable Muslim personalities within the wider community and myriad moments of self-discovery and visual abstraction. Our process involved aligning curated museum content to the web and local curricula, as well as creating immersive digital displays and environments. We placed an emphasis on revealing and celebrating the perhaps lesser-known contributions of Muslims to Australia’s history.

Arterial are masters in conceptual design, detailed documentation and installation of both indoor and outdoor cultural learning environments. Arterial offer our expertise in designing for all mediums from 2D graphics to 3D mechanical, digital interactivity, multimedia design, immersive environments as well as audio and 3D motion graphics/animation and museum quality object display systems. Arterial have experience in designing and implementing visitor experiences - museum exhibitions to masterplans, children’s play environments, specialist interactive and educational learning discovery centres