Learn about space in the Universe gallery
IMAX theatre, a children’s museum and a performing arts centre. Ningbo, a seaport and one of China’s oldest cities, is located on the country’s eastern coast, south of Hangzhou Bay. The three large-scale galleries, each measuring between 2,000 and 2,500sq m (21,500 and 27,000sq ft), are called Universe, Harmonious Home and Ocean. Graphics and communication in the galler- ies, also created by MET Studio, will be in both Chinese and English. The Universe gallery looks at cosmol-
ogy and the origins of the universe, from the Big Bang to the expansion of space, and our means of examining space using space telescopes, space travel and space biodomes. Design features include a bun- gee walk exhibit where real life weight is temporarily neutralised, and a huge pro- jected solar system on the gallery floor. Visitors can interact with stars and black
The heart of the space in the Oceans gallery is used to focus on modern port technology
holes and Wii-style games enable them to see how astronauts train for a mission and deal with g-force and micro gravity. The Harmonious Home gallery uses
interactive exhibitions to consider our effect on the earth and ask how carbon mass contributes to global warming. An impact wall looks at how mass human con- sumption affects the earth and how what we take out in terms of quarrying and tim- ber-felling correlates with the waste, toxic or otherwise, that we return to the earth.
The Oceans gallery explores the driv-
ing forces and principles of the world’s oceans. The local theme of ocean trade throughout history and in contemporary society will anchor the gallery, with a major area focusing on modern port technology. Visitors will be able to investigate the rich mineral life and biodiversity of the oceans before immersing themselves in themed areas, looking first at the two major polar oceans and finally at the wonders and unexplored mysteries of the deep ocean.
Moscow Planetarium’s Lunarium gallery, Russia
designer: Kurt Huettinger gmbH & Co, germany
Science and Astronomy gallery. Huettinger designed and built the interactives, set work and graphics for both projects, with the aim of Lunarium being to combine an industrial space-ship style design with a high-quality museum offer. Huettinger created a space lab on the moon in which visitors assume the role of astronauts carrying out astronomic explo- ration. The different parts of the exhibition are clustered within a modular system with hexagonal, spaceship-themed elements. Many of the artefacts were used in space or are replicas of spacecraft equipment. These are displayed in suitcase-style units, as though they’ve just been unpacked by astronauts on their arrival to the moon.
M AM 1 2012 ©cybertrek 2012
oscow Planetarium opened the Lunarium gallery in June 2011 fol- lowing the success of its Origins of
The different parts of the exhibition are displayed in hexagonal, spaceship-themed units The honeycomb-like structures were
inspired by organic molecules – the ben- zene ring – which forms a regular hexagon of six carbon atoms. The hexagonal walls, suitcases, backlit graphics and table units can easily be moved around or replaced to cater for different exhibitions in the future. The layout’s design allows visitors to
move freely within the different themed areas, starting with a Journey to the Stars: From the Earth to the Moon (Lunar Laboratory), going on to Mars (Discover Mars), through the Solar System (Interplanetary Journey) to Other Galaxies (Stars and Galaxies), before finally finishing the experience in the Trip to Infinity area.
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