Information Age Gallery

Information Age Gallery

Science Museum

Furniture for the Information Age gallery

Project Type
Furniture
Location
Science Museum, London
Year
2014
Partners
Science Museum
Universal Design Studio
Photography
Glasshopper
Information Age Gallery

millimetre fabricated and installed a number of graphic and furniture pieces for the Science Museum’s pioneering Information Age gallery, the first gallery dedicated to the history of information technologies. This high-profile £16 million project was developed in collaboration with luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and opened by the Queen, who sent her first tweet from the gallery.

We worked with Universal Design Studio to create benches and a variety of different plinths to house exhibits and information. The two steel-framed benches are clad in copper and CNC engraved with black ink-filled text. The seats are made of white corian. The circular glass-topped plinths are made from a steel frame and copper cladding, with curved sides made from laminated toughened glass. The top is a single piece of toughened glass, with text CNC-cut and ink-filled on the upper face. The square plinths have sandblasted toughened glass sides and CNC-engraved, ink-filled tops made of copper.

For the interactive plinths, we created a copper-clad cabinet to house the computer, and white powdercoated steel plinths for the touchscreens and speakers. Finally, the tactile object plinth has powdercoated legs and a copper top. The copper we used in all the items was lacquered.