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Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery

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Floorplan

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AlbertaNaturally

Toddler Area

Museums101

Chautauqua

Alberta’s Maker

EntryExperience

Entrance

Welcome to the Children’s

Gallery

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Project

- Design a new Children's Gallery for the Royal Alberta Museum.

The Children's Gallery is RAM's first gallery to be designed with their younger visitors in mind. Focusing on 0-8 year-old's, and their parents and caregviers, we developped a stimulating environment to house a place of great explorarion and interactivity.

Project Team: JoAnn Secor (Principal, Director of Museum Services), Scott W. Briggs AIA (Senior Associate, Museum Services, Project Manager), Roy Lorieo (Exhibit Designer)

Project Duration: 12 months (design), 6 months (fabrication and installation), to open Fall 2017.



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CITIZENSHIP

SELF-REFLECTION

EMPATHY

Alberta’s Built Environment and

Infrastructure

Alberta’s Natural Environment and Natural

Phenomena

Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons

Activities

Museology

Arts & Creativity

How Things Work

Experience Criteria

Overarching themes:- Inspire young Albertans to be active,participatory citizens in their town orcommunity- Provide opportunities for youngvisitors to develop a sense ofempathy- Encourage visitors to reflect ontheir experience, using a variety ofmethods to document their visit



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CHILDREN’S GALLERY ROYAL ALBERT

MUSEUM11/14/2014

Alberta’s Built Environment and Infrastructure

Alberta’s Natural Environment and Natural Phenomena

Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons

Concept DiagramExperience Criteria

Main Topics:• Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons• Alberta’s Natural Environment andNatural Phenomena• Alberta’s Built Environment andInfrastructure

We chose to weave the three topics together, across the gallery rather than have separate stations for each topic. This concept diagram was an initial study on how the three topics could work together to build an integrated story.



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Look and Feel

The client is inspired by the Reggio Emelia teaching method. We found the bright and open environments of the typical Reggio classroom to be a good inspiration. They are not afraid of a little chaos in the name of discuovery. The Reggio philosophy uses many sortable loose parts and pieces in it stheory. We looked to design a space that encoraged discovery and innovation.



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Look and Feel

For this gallery, we did not want to make any fake experiences. If something could not be brought into the gallery, then it would be represented in a stylsitic manner. We chose to use natural materials with exposed grain and texture, instead of fiberglas and plastic.



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Gallery Overview

- 5920 sq ft

The gallery is made up of two rooms. The entrance is a double-height space, while the rear area is dropped down to



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Entrance

As you enter the Children's Gallery, you are given a chance to collect yourself. There is a large map, to explain how the gallery relates to the province as a while. There is also a display case which represents the gallery's manifesto on play and learning.



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Alberta Naturally

The Alberta Naturally Section is modelled after the natural and man-made aspects of Alberta. The main room of the gallery is dominated by two mountain ranges. Patterend after the Canadian Rockies. Some of the other highlights are a 3-story tall grain elevator, a forest and the Dig Pit area.



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Wind Wall

Once the visitor travels through the mountains and up the ramp, she will arrive at the controls for the Wind Wall. Inspired by installation artist Ned Kahn, this interactive shows wind currents as they flow across a field of wind chimes.

Right: an existing wind current installation.



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Northern Lights

At the top of the ramp, visitors will also encounter an interactive that explains how the aurora borrealis works. Dials and sliders will change the lighting effects of an LED curtain to simulate the northern lights.



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Forest Explorers

In the forest, visitors will find animal tracks, sounds and smells. All clues to the different animals that can be found in Alberta's forests. There is also a Forest sounds symphony wall that will allow visitors to compose there own sounds of the forest.



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Dig Pit

This area will sometimes house an archeological interactive. There will be tools for excavating and measuring, whatever visitors uncover. A stratigraphy display in The surrounding walls will hold artifacts that scientists have uncovered from local digs.



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Toddler Area

Knowing there are special needs for the youngest visiors (0 to 3-years-old) we designed an area just for them. Before entering, you will leave your shoes in a low-wall with historical artifacts that have been used in exploration. Above the Toddler Area is a constellation themed mobile that will tell the story of what native peoples see when they look at the stars.



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Museums 101

A gallery within a gallery, Museums 101 will be hold temporary exhibits with content culled from the local community and curated by the museum staff. The first exhibit will be how the new museum was built.



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Chautauqua

A Chautauqua was a turn of the 20th centruy community event. Like circus of religious revival, a temporary structure would be setup to house presentations on new technologies and ideas.



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Chautauqua

This Chautauqua will be a programming space for story time ...



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Chautauqua

... or party time!



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Alberta's Makers

The maker space will be a place to build, take apart, and make some thing new again and again. Hopefully young visitors will return to the Children's Gallery every few weeks to foster a particapitory community of empathetic young people who reflect on their experiences at the museum and out in the world.

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