Project Overview

Being the 100th anniversary of the Royal Ontario Museum, there were more events happening, and I was brought int to help put together a Centennial Celebration, the first-ever Behind the Scenes tour of the Museum’s inner-sanctums, and lastly, the blockbuster exhibition: The Forbidden City: Inside the Courts of China’s Emperors.

The exhibit showcased the lives of China’s last seven Emperors and one Empress, allowing the public to see, in certain cases for the first time in history, artifacts and riches once hidden within the walls of the royal palace in Beijing.

Environmental Design and Print Work

In designing an exhibit at the ROM, the team must create everything from murals, visual timelines to set the scene, video feeds, ambient lighting, way-finding, signage and even collateral for a “teaser” room called the Spirit House, where the ROM gives a preview of upcoming shows.

Above is a 15ft by 10ft wall mural that was placed in the Spirit House to show off a few of the beautiful artifacts contained in the exhibit. It was accompanied by a scale model of the Forbidden City and ipads to explain to viewers what they were looking at within the model. Below is another large (6ft by 6ft) mural that hung over top of the gift shop cashier. Further below is a row of photos showing some of the way-finding and signage involved in the exhibit.