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Lauri Berkenkamp has joined the Heritance team in planning the Open Museum Online. .

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Below is a list of projects which offer samples of Heritance team members' independent work and showcase examples of the type of expertise Heritance offers:

Sri Lanka
(2001) Programming and design for an exhibit entitled "Stone Witnesses" at the Colombo National Museum, one of the finest museums in Sri Lanka. This programming, which took place prior to a complete renovation, reorganized the work according to the following topics: architecture of a Buddhist temple, foreign influences, the evolution of Brahim letters to modern Sinhalese letters, and images of Buddha. The exhibit however has not yet been realized due to political circumstances.


Birth of Impressionism
(1996) The Tobu Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Glasgow Museums co-produced this traveling exhibition between their two cities, focusing on the early days of the Impressionist movement. The exhibitions’s staging focused on the contact point between European and Japanese painting within the framework of the timeline which lead to Impressionism. The layout, designed with traveling in mind, presented the pictorial works together with video installations.


Lichtenberg
(2002) Information facilities were created on two different sites: one located in the Alsace region at the Lichtenberg Castle and the other in Germany at the Madenburg Castle. These facilities provide geographical and thematic information on the sites: history, geology, borders, lines of defense, etc.


Mackintosh
(1996) A traveling exhibition dedicated to the famous Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). The staging was designed around objects created by Mackintosh and representations of his architectural works, which are enhanced by their fluid and sober presentation. The staging also offered films which provided a virtual visit of the various residences and buildings created by the architect. This exhibition, on a reputedly difficult topic, was one of the major cultural events of the city of Glasgow (208,000 visitors in 4 months).


Franche-Comté Houses
(2000) Design and realization of a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Franche-Comté Houses in Nancray, France. This exhibition, staged in a 19th-century barn, traces the historical evolution of harvesting techniques and the use of grains.


Mulhouse
(1998) As part of the bicentennial which commemorated the day when the City of Mulhouse became part of France, five industrial museums co-produced five exhibitions which focused on industrial imagination as represented by automobiles, the railway, electricity, wallpaper and even printed fabrics. The five different exhibitions all used the same general design.


Neanderthal
(1996) Built near the famous Neanderthal site, the Neanderthal Museum is devoted to the evolution of man. The project's staging, created in a building where the exhibition areas form a spiral on a slight slope, is symbolic of evolution. The interior arrangement are designed and carried out around permanent presentations of objects and archaeological recreations, and include the use of video, multimedia and sound presentations. This museum has opened its doors to more than one million visitors, and received a special mention during the 1998 European Museum Awards.


A Pirates' Feast
(2003) For the Center of Ocean Landscapes at the Hague in France, we created an exhibit which depicts the culinary mores of XVIIth Century pirates on the Caribbean Sea. It is on the Island of Tortuga, to the northwest of the Island of Hispanola, that a unique social organization of pirates was born, the Society of the Brothers of the Coastline. Our display, which combines artifacts and multimedia (technology), invites you to sit down at the pirates' table and discover their very unusual recipes, dishes and table manners.


Le Tourp - La Hague
(2003) Le Tourp is an old farm-manor located in La Hague, which has been turned into an Interpretive Center for oceanic landscapes. The Center Museum is devoted to the coastal scenery of the Cotentin Peninsula: its specific climate and botanical characteristics, regional identity, as well as the local practices and history. The method is both analytical and comparative. Program planning, the complete museum layout, architecture, design and mediation tools have all been specially created.

Ethnologisches Museum
(1998-2000) A programming and design study after having won the international competition for the restoration of two rooms in the Museum für Völkerkund, now renamed the Ethnologisches Museum, Europe’s largest and oldest ethnographical museum (1873). This project, although never realized, prefigured the complete restoration of the museum (20,000 m²). Museum Director Claudius Müller outlined the philosophy of the project with "What is culture? How is it expressed in regional areas? How do transcultural relations develop? What is man’s ability to organize his individual and collective life?" (Le Monde, 19 December 1998)
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