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The Rooms Museum

The Husky Energy Gallery (From This Place) and The Elinor Gill Ratcliffe Gallery (Here, We Made a Home)

The Rooms, Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier cultural institution encompasses its Provincial Archives, Art Gallery and Museum. This innovative centre shares the province’s rich cultural identity with local, national, and international audiences. In 2011, Origin Studios won an international competition to collaborate with The Rooms curatorial team in the development of a new permanent exhibition about the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador, from the late 1700s to present day.

This complex project explores the lives and cultures of the Innu, Inuit, Mi’kmaq and the people of NunatuKavut, as well as descendants of European settlers. In addition to presenting stories of place and history, the mezzanine level exhibition explores significant events, individuals and traditions that have shaped this fascinating part of the world. The exhibit environment uses the plank building style of local architecture, in an attempt to capture the texture and nuance of the province. The effect is rugged, welcoming, colourful and unpretentious, much like the people of the region.

From This Place

Here We Made a Home

Awards

This exhibit received the 2014 Canadian Museums Association’s Award of Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions.

Details

The Rooms, Provincial Museum and Culture Space,
St. John’s, Newfoundland
2013
Exhibit Space: 9,500 sq. ft.

Services

Interpretive Planning and Exhibit Design

Entrance Corridor, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Programming Space, From this Place, The Rooms Museum,Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Place theme, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
General view of From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Identity Room, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Programming Area, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Place theme, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Entrance Corridor detail, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Entrance Corridor detail, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Talking Posts, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
General view of Here, We Made a Home, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
General view of Here, We Made a Home, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of entrance to Permanent Exhibitions, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of entrance to Permanent Exhibitions, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of Entrance Corridor, From this Place, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of stairs to Here, We Made a Home, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of Programming Area, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.
Rendering of Interactive Timeline, The Rooms Museum, Exhibit Design by: Origin Studios Inc.

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