Museum Jan Cunen - Villa Curiossa

Client: Van Gogh Village

Designer: Tinker Imagineers

Location: Nuenen, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 400

Realization: 16-05-2023

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Van Gogh Village Museum centres the story of the life of art painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in Nuenen.trail.

Client: Bailleul ontwerpbureau

Designer: Bailleul ontwerpbureau

Location: Wissekerke, Belgium

Realization: 29-03-2023

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Wissekerke Castle in the municipality of Kruibeke has been renovated and given a completely new experience trail.

Client: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid

Designer: Tinker Imagineers

Location: Hilversum, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 3300

Realization: 11-02-2023

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Sound & Vision has opened the most interactive Media museum of the world.

Client: VVV Stadsmuseum Doetinchem

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Doetinchem, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 60

Realization: 07-04-2023

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

On the ground floor of the old post office in Doetinchem, the Inspiration Point and city museum together form a public meeting place. 

Client: Kossmanndejong

Designer: Kossmanndejong

Location: Somerset, United Kingdom

Realization: 01-01-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Roman Villa Museum in Somerset England

Client: Marinemuseum

Designer: Kinkorn

Location: Den Helder, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 144

Realization: 01-12-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Marinemuseum in Den Helder has opened the exhibition Navy Games.

Client: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Designer: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Location: Brugge, België

Surface m2: 250

Realization: 06-10-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The Bruges Bible Service has realised BIBLIA, the Bible experience centre, in the historic building of the Grootseminarie in the heart of Brugge.

Client: Ville de Toul

Designer: MAW Architects

Location: Toul, France

Realization: 01-06-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Cathedral Saint-Etienne in Toul is more than eight hundred years old.

Client: City of Ghent

Designer: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Realization: 01-11-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The Westerbegraafplaats is one of Ghent’s largest and most beautiful cemeteries. 

Client: Star Group

Designer: -

Location: Beijing, China

Realization: 01-11-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The Henan Science Centre has renewed an entire zone with exhibits.

Client: DST-Sandenburg

Designer: DST-Sandenburg

Location: Maassluis, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 400

Realization: 01-09-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

In the entrance hall of the renewed Lely Campus in Maassluis is a Lely Experience realised. 

Client: Foundation Koninklijke Defensiemusea

Designer: Perspekt Studio's

Location: Den Helder, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 275

Realization: 11-07-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The new ‘Hidden Treasures’ room of the Navy Museum in Den Helder has become a multifunctional place. 

Client: NEMO Science Museum

Designer: Designwolf

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 250

Realization: 09-07-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The new temporary family exhibition in NEMO Science Museum is all about building, living and housing.  

Client: M56 Netherlands Holding B.V.

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 07-07-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

The Euromast in Rotterdam has a new Euroscoop experience: Colourful Rotterdam.  

Client: REM Reiss Engelhorn Museen

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Mannheim, Germany

Surface m2: 450

Realization: 22-05-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

A practical exhibition for children and families, which can be visited from 22.05.2022 to 30.07.2023.   

Client: Foundation Natura ARTIS Magistra

Designer: Kossmanndejong

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 1200

Realization: 12-05-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

After being closed to the public for 75 years, one of the oldest museum buildings in Amsterdam has been restored, renovated and given a completely new concept: The Groote Museum.  

Client: Municipality of Ommen & Cultural Heritage Centre Ommen

Designer: Potstauzend

Location: Ommen, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 80

Realization: 31-05-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The Tourist Inspiration Point Ommen is housed in the renewed Cultural Historic Centre of Ommen.

Client: LEGO® House

Designer: LEGO® House

Location: Billund, Denmark

Surface m2: 100

Realization: 15-04-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

The Yellow Zone at LEGO® House in Billund has been expanded. The new Mood Mixer consists of interactive exhibits focused on emotions. 

Client: Jheronimus Bosch Art Center

Designer: -

Location: 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Realization: 01-04-2022

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Besides the famous masters Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt, medieval painter Jheronimus Bosch now has his own house: Het Huis van Bosch.

Client: European Parliament

Designer: -

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Realization: 23-11-2021

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

We installed outdoor showcases for two original segments of the Berlin Wall in Brussels. 

Client: Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums

Designer: Expology Sweden

Location: Stockholm, Zweden

Surface m2: 600

Realization: 22-09-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Vrak – Museum of Wrecks is a brand new maritime archaeological museum in the middle of Stockholm, Sweden. 

Client: NIRAS

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Dessel, Belgium

Surface m2: 950

Realization: 17-09-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Tabloo is a visitor and meeting centre about radioactivity and radioactive waste in Dessel, Belgium.

Client: Rijksmuseum de Gevangenpoort

Designer: -

Location: Den Haag, The Netherlands

Surface m2: -

Realization: 12-08-2021

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Rijksmuseum de Gavangenpoort tells the story of crime and punishment from the 15th to the 19th century.

Client: The Mauritshuis Willemstad

Designer: Duinzand & Platvorm

Location: Willemstad, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 370

Realization: 06-08-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Visitor Centre The Mauritshuis is safely located by the water, hidden among nature and full of history. 

Client: Het Noordbrabants Museum

Designer: Studio Berry Slok

Location: Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 600

Realization: 23-07-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

North-Brabant is the birthplace of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1835 – 1890), one of the most famous painters in the world.

Client: City Tongeren

Designer: SHSH Architecture & Scenography

Location: Tongeren, Belgium

Surface m2: 1122

Realization: 30-03-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The new temporary exhibition of Gallo Romans Museum.

Client: Foundation Achterhoek Toerism

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Lochem, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 150

Realization: 31-03-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

A new Inspiration Point in the Achterhoek!

Client: Kinkorn BV

Designer: Kinkorn BV

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Surface m2: 700

Realization: 25-12-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of STAM, city museum of Ghent, the permanent exhibition ‘The story of Ghent’ has undergone a total make-over.

Client: Parkschap National Park De Biesbosch

Designer: BOS & BOS

Location: Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Realization: 31-03-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The interactive exhibition about the Biesbosch nature reserve was in need of renovation. 

Client: Bailleul Design Agency

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Antwerp, Belgium

Surface m2: 175

Realization: 01-02-2021

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Portopolis, harbour pavilion located at the MAS in Antwerp has been rebranded as a visitor centre for young and old.

Client: House of European History

Designer: Kossmanndejong

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Surface m2: 500

Realization: 01-10-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Fake for Real - A history of forgery and falisifications

Client: We The Curious

Designer: Kossmanndejong

Location: Bristol, England

Surface m2: 1270

Realization: 01-12-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

What If, the new exhibition in the science centre We The Curious, Bristol

Client: Achterhoek Tourism Foundation

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Groenlo, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 90

Realization: 02-12-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The new VVV Inspiration Point Groenlo takes the visitor into the history of Groenlo. 

Client: Paris Musées

Designer: Atelier de L’îl e and Ciel Architectes

Location: Paris, France

Realization: 01-09-2020

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Palais Galliera, the fashion museum of Paris, presents the exhibition “Gabrielle Chanel – Manifesto de Mode”.

Client: Glasgow Science Center

Designer: -

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Surface m2: -

Realization: 03-03-2020

Disciplines: Mechatronics, Robotics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

Glasgow Science Center is an independent charity in Scotland, presenting science and technology concepts in unique and inspiring ways. The centre is passionate about inspiring the next generation of engineers, innovators and scientists.

The theme of the new exhibition Idea No59 is ‘The future is yours to shape! The aim is to engage a larger community on how technology shapes the future of our society.

“Idea No59 is an interactive exhibition with associated programming, designed to nurture crucial future skills. At the heart of the idea, it recognises the need of the global society to innovate, adapt and to invent. To achieve this, we need to develop a culture of innovation which inspires our young people to harness their full potential and play a key role in creating the innovations that will transform our society”. - team Idea No59.

Client: Th Royal Library of Belgium

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Surface m2: 1200

Realization: 18-09-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The KBR, Royal Library of Belgium, opens its own museum in Brussels. The museum is devoted to the richly decorated manuscripts of the Burgundian court. In other words, the librije of the Dukes of Burgundy. A treasure chest that opens and where the 600 years of hidden gems are exhibited to the general public.
The 280 preserved manuscripts have recently been restored and are presented in a highly narrative scenography. ‘We want to make the historical sensation of the Middle Ages tangible’, says interim director Sara Lammens, ‘Aiming as widely as possible: at Brussels residents and tourists, connoisseurs and families.’

Together with partners CREATE.eu, Bailleul design agency and Ata Tech, Bruns was able to realise the brand new museum. Bruns was responsible for the (interactive) furniture including integration of hardware and graphics, CREATE.eu for the multimedia experience with interactive audiovisual set-ups, Bailleul design office for the design and Ata Tech for the lighting.

Photography: @Creativeroom en Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Client: Foundation Royal Defence Museum

Designer: Kinkorn

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 03-11-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Experience Marines on Mission is a temporary children’s exhibition where they discover what is involved in a mission of marines. As a team, children from the age of 8 discover the new adventurous experience. As a team they choose one of three missions: at sea, in the snow or in the jungle. After a brief explanation of the mission, it’s up to the group to successfully complete the mission. During the mission, the participants discover what a mission means and what skills they need to possess.

The mission includes various challenges. Dangerous situations can occur that may involve risks. Circumstances per country can also be different all the time. Each challenge requires special preparation and training of the marines. In order to complete the mission, it is very important to work well together as a team. Safety comes first!

Photography: Anne Reitsma

Client: Maritiem Museum Rotterdam

Designer: Kinkorn

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 10-12-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Bruns has been given responsibility for part of the renewed entrance of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. A large part of this is the large collection wall. In this wall collection pieces of the Maritime Museum are exhibited in different ways. In order to be able to view this collection, seating elements have been realized with fabric in the house style colour. Bruns has also realized a ticket and information desk with storage space in an oak wooden version. In addition, the shop is equipped with shop shelves, presentation tables and specially designed crane bins. Finally, the ceiling finishing, signage and, in cooperation with Ata Tech, the lighting fixtures were provided.

Photography: Maritiem Museum Rotterdam - Theo de Man

Client: DRU Industriepark and Achterhoek Toerism

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Ulft, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 170

Realization: 07-06-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

At the DRU Industriepark in Ulft, the third VVV Inspiration Point of the Achterhoek is open. The new Inspiration Point visually inspires residents and tourists about the DRU Industriepark, the municipality of Oude Ijsselstreek and its surroundings.

Alderman Janine Kock says about the new Inspiration Point: “This is a fantastic asset for both the DRU Industriepark and the entire municipality. Visitors get a good picture of the past and present of the DRU Industriepark, but also of the surrounding area, in a very interactive way. This is also absolutely worthwhile for residents”.

Bruns worked together with project leader DestinationX and design agency Potztausend to realize the new VVV Inspiration Point at the DRU Industriepark. The function of this VVV Inspiration Point is twofold. As an Inspiration Point, visitors can compose their day out on the basis of stories and, as a visitor information centre, obtain information about the DRU Industriepark.

Photography: Achterhoek Toerism

Client: Holmegaard Værk

Designer: Jens Ole Platz

Location: Holmegaard, Denmark

Surface m2: 2500

Realization: 03-06-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Holmegaard Værk is a new hot spot for art-craftsmanship and tradition. At this place, iconic glass items were conceived, shaped and born. The brand new museum capturing the essence of a long Danish history of glass, ceramic and design. Since 2008 Holmegaard Glassworks closed down. The works was abounded and left cold and quit. Now, life is back!

The new hot spot raise Danish design tradition to a level where it has not been since the 1950s and 1960s. The visitors are invited into a world of tradition, art-craftsmanship and beautiful visions. This museum takes everyone back to the artists ‘drawing board, where ingenious ideas became beautiful lines. As visitor you learn about a workplace, where a son follows in his father’s footsteps and were hard labour, stubbornness and curiosity pay off.

Holmegaard Works is a story about the past as inspiration for the future.

Photography: Emilia Therese

Client: Foundation Achterhoek Toerism

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Zutphen, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 75

Realization: 06-06-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Zutphen is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. A rich history of churches, warehouses, courtyards and merchant houses belongs to the city. Therefore, a contemporary VVV Inspiration Point should not be missing here. Zutphen likes to tell its story to residents and tourists. At the new VVV Inspiration Point this can be done in a visual and interactive way. The themes Hanseatic city, routes, Made in Zutphen, art & culture, fortified city and tower city can be discovered here. Not only is there information about history, but there is also plenty of inspiration about what Zutphen and its surroundings have to offer up to the present day.

Hip en Stijl photography

Client: Foundation Achterhoek Toerism

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Winterswijk, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 82

Realization: 06-06-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

In the Achterhoek, the VVVs are working on a transformation from shop to inspiration point. The VVV Inspiratiepunt Winterswijk is the first result of this. Joris Bengevoord, Mayor Winterswijk, is proud that his village is the first. Gienne te Gronde, site manager of VVV Winterswijk, says in advance: “We have been working together with Achterhoek Tourism for a year now to take the information to the next level. We are in need of a new interior and can do it now”.

The concept applied in the Achterhoek has already been tried and tested in the province of Zeeland. In this new set-up, a number of themes will receive special attention. For Winterswijk these are the quarry, the centre, the border and the landscape. The inspiration point has retained the paper leaflets and routes, but has also become much more interactive. For example, films can be watched and there are screens on which visitors can compose their own routes.  

 Hip & Stijl photography

Client: The Royal library of Belgium

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Surface m2: 1000

Realization: 01-10-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The World of Bruegel in Black and White

Pieter Bruegel de Oude, is a world famous painter of the 16the century. In his time Bruegel was best known for his prints. Some 450 years ago, Flanders was the centre of the production and trade of prints. In this period Bruegel and his publisher, Hiëronymus Cock, played a key role.

KBR is the pioneer in the rediscovery of Bruegel’s unknown masterpieces. During the Bruegel year a complete collection of prints will be exhibited. Masterful craftsmanship and entrepreneurial spirit are central to this exhibition. Visitors dive into the imaginary world and discover how the process went, from drawing to print.

The exhibitions consist of Bruegel’s original drawings, his Italian landscapes, the seven deadly sins, virtues and other beautiful prints. An exhibition that surprises the visitor with special figures and details in lesser known masterpieces.

Photography: Creativeroom

Client: The Royal library of Belgium

Designer: Studio Roma

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Surface m2: 600

Realization: 22-12-2019

Disciplines: Interior

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

KBR is the national academic library of Brussels. All Belgian publications are collected, managed and studied here. Meanwhile a rich collection of cultural and historical heritage of more than 8 million documents. This makes KBR the literary and scientific memory of Belgium. The archive consist of publications by Belgian authors, valuable books, manuscripts, newspapers, prints, scores, coins and much more.

Bruns has been given responsibility for the complete furnishing of the entrance hall of the Royal library of Belgium. After receiving a very complete design from Studio Roma, Bruns has engineered, produced and installed everything down to the last detail. 

The entrance hall is one of the three parts of the Royal library of Belgium project. Besides the entrance hall, Bruns also realized the exposition ‘The World of Bruegel in Black and White’ and the Librije area in the new museum.

Photography: Creativeroom

Client: Bolidt Innovation Center

Designer: Kossmann.deJong

Location: Hendrik-Ido-ambacht, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 1860

Realization: 20-11-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Mechatronics, Robotics, Graphics

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

Bolidt’s strength has been the in-house development, production and application of thermoset plastics since 1964. Plastic systems for (industrial) synthetic floors, ship roofs and wear layers. Bolidt believes that a successful development is a synergy between; innovative power, the cooperation between employees and the ability to co-create with the customer. In the new Bolidt Innovation Center all three ingredients are combined under one roof.

The customer gets to know the product by seeing, printing, stretching and testing all materials in the ‘exhibit area’. Bolidt presented all possible solutions in real samples, which gives the customer a realistic feeling with the material. Of course the visit also gives Bolidt insight into the wishes and requirements of the customer. In short, a centre for optimal cooperation with successful results.

Photography: Thijs Wolzak

Client: Cvba T2

Designer: Tinker Imagineers

Location: Genk, Belgium

Surface m2: 600

Realization: 20-02-2020

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

TECHville is a brand new experience space on the T2-Campus in Genk. An inspiring place that breathes technology. Technique and technology become visible for students, employees, entrepreneurs and job seekers. Thanks to TECHville now also especially for young people (10-18 years). The new space is aimed at groups of a minimum of 6 to a maximum of 30 participants. As an team, visitors embark on an exciting technology adventure. Young people experience the impact of technology on their own environment and daily life. They learn about the physical phenomena STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering en Mathematics). School classes are the most suitable target group for a visit. The TECH-coach makes all students TECHproof and provides a WOW moment in class. Students discover their TECHtalent. Not only during the visit, but the T2-Campus also offers ready-made teaching packages as pre- and post-trajectory.

Bruns, together with Tinker Imagineers and Yipp was given responsibility for the total furnishing of the experience space. All parts were realized within the time frame.

Photography:Tinker Imagineers

Client: DST- the experience agency

Designer: Sandenburg Concept Creation

Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands

Realization: 10-12-2019

Disciplines: Interior

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

December 2019, the new Unilever Foods Innovation Centre (also known as HIVE) opened in Wageningen. In HIVE, Unilever works on innovations and research to feed the growing world population in a sustainable and nutritious way. In short, HIVE is always within the ecosystem of Wageningen Campus the best place for experimenting, testing ideas and sharing new concepts that are good for consumers and the planet.

Sandenburg has been asked by Unilever to provide the public areas in the new center with experience touch points. In other words, contact points that make an important contribution to the openness, transparency, variation of working methods and connections between users. Whit the aim of inform, inspiring, activating and stimulating the target group in a culture of open innovation. One of the touch points is the Green Welcome Structure, based on 'the honeycomb', the symbol of pollination.

Photography: sandenburg.com

Client: Continium Discovery Center

Designer: MMEK'

Location: Kerkrade, Nederland

Surface m2: 1350

Realization: 22-12-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Look out your eyes in Continium’s totally revamped Explore Zone. An experience space where young and old discover how the world around them is changing through 21st-century science and technology. The visitor looks ahead to the future in six different themes: Food, Health, Work and Leisure, Life, Materials and Engergy & IT. Visitors can see in the fortune tent what they will look later, put houses on dry land and stack hamburgers as sustainably as possible in the food truck. In addition, current elements such as: recognizing fake news, future professions and robotization are discussed.
Director Hans Gubbels: “With the new set-up of the Explore Zone, we want to encourage our visitors to discover for themselves and to experience what current developments mean for visitors personally. Ultimately, of course, visitors make their own choice or and hoe they want to use new technologies. It is important not only to be aware of new possibilities, but also to think critically about them. Visitors are asked challenging dilemmas in the Explore Zone."

In this project, Bruns worked together very intensively with the client: Continium. The designed exhibits have been further developed technically and brought to a final design. Each exhibit has been carefully examined and elaborated. This is what Bruns definitely calls a ‘Design and Build’ project.

Photography: Continium Discovery Center

Client: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

Designer: Pièce Montée

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Realization: 01-01-2020

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

February 2020 the largest Jan van Eyck exhibition ever opened at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) Ghent. Only about twenty works by this Flemish master have been preserved worldwide. At least half of them have travelled to the MSK. The pieces have been brought together with work from Eyck’s studio and copies of paintings that have disappeared in the meantime. The exhibition also contains more than 100 masterpieces from the late Middle Ages. All works are spread over no less than 13 refurbished museum rooms.

In collaboration with design agency Pièce Montée and lighting agency Chris Pype, Bruns has created the exhibition ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution’ within set delivery time. Bruns has had a leading role in advising, engineering and producing high-end conditional and burglar-retardant showcases.

Photography: Bart van Leuven, design agency Pièce Montée Ghent and David Levene, MSK Ghent

Client: Limburgs Museum

Designer: Limburgs Museum in cooperation with Tom Bouten (Interiorbuilder at Bruns)

Location: Venlo, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 300

Realization: 16-11-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The adventure of SuperSint is a brand new exhibition dedicated to the real Dutch children’s party: Sinterklaas. Children experience the adventures of Sint en Piet. So they clamber over roofs, operate the parcel machine and feed his horse in the stable. The children practise with language, math and train their motor and social skills in a playful way. Not just for kids is the exhibition an adventure. For the older children and adults contains the exhibition a storey layer. An enrichment in knowledge about the origin of the old legends and traditions around Sinterklaas and his role among people.

The play- and learn units in the exhibition are in line with the eponymous book “The adventure of SuperSint’, written by Maranke Rinck and illustrated by Martijn van der Linden. The book and the exhibition contribute to the development of the target group.

The exhibition is dismantled and stored after Sinterklaas and rebuilt the following year.

Photography: Petra Lenssen

Client: Museon, Limburgs Museum, LVR-LandesMuseum, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Different locations

Surface m2: 700

Realization: 21-11-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

MUSIC! is an interactive traveling exhibition. The initiative of four museums: Museon (NL), Limburgs Museum (NL), LVR-LandesMuseum (DE) en Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (DE). This exhibition arose on the occasion of the 250th year of birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. The exhibition can be visited for a certain period at each of the above partners. The first location where its installed is in the LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn.

The result of the cooperation with all the partners is an exhibition that immerses visitors in the common music experience: around the world. Thirty interactive stations invite the visitors to listen, make and feel music. The skills for playing an instrument are not necessary. Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition. Curiosity to new sounds and experience is just what you need.

Photography: J. Vogel, LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn

Client: Tom Postma Design

Designer: Tom Postma Design

Location: TEFAF New York, USA

Realization: 01-04-2018

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

FD Gallery TEFAF New York Spring 2018

FD Gallery (New York, United States), specializing in one-of-a-kind, extremely rare jewellery pieces from the most prestigious houses, primarily from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Tom Postma Design designed the booth of FD Gallery at TEFAF New York Spring 2018.

Photography: Mark Niederman

Client: Tom Postma Design

Designer: Tom Postma Design

Location: TEFAF New York, USA

Realization: 01-04-2018

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Hemmerle TEFAF New York Spring 2018

Hemmerle (Munich, Germany), a fourth generation family run house at the vanguard of jewellery design.

Tom Postma Design and world-renowned jewellery house Hemmerle have been working closely together to create a new and inviting space for the Hemmerle presentation at TEFAF New York Spring 2018.

The new design of the Hemmerle booth reflects the radical simplicity and the technical perfection of the Hemmerle jewellery.

Photography: Mark Niederman

Client: Vredescentrum vzw i.c.w. city Antwerp

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Antwerp, Belgium

Surface m2: 500

Realization: 01-09-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The temporary exhibition Victory & Sadness is all about the 75 years of liberation of Antwerp. A commemoration to the ending of the Second World War, 75 years ago. Antwerp was liberated on 4th of September in 1944. From that moment, more than four years of occupation are finally over. The first victory day turns into nine long liberation months. Moths in which fear of bombs and destruction occurs. Hungry trough food shortage and concern about the fate of loved ones somewhere far away.

In the exhibition Victory & Sadness discovered the visitor, on the basis of authentic photo’s, film material, testimonials and war objects, how moment of victory and sadness alternate during and after the liberation.

Photo: Vredescentrum

Client: Naturalis - Biodiversity Center

Designer: Onne Brouwer, Pieter Aartsen, Studio Daniel Ament

Location: Leiden, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 2044

Realization: 01-08-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Naturalis, the national research institute in the field of biodiversity, has reopened with a brand new family museum. Young and old being submerged in the wonderful world of the nature.

The museum is all about seeing, doing and experiencing. In different museum halls, the visitor discovered the early live on earth, the Netherlands in the Ice age and the primal forces of our earth. Also the visitor is introduced to the surprising lines of plants and animals, they face an African elephant and they meet the T. rex Trix. In the LiveScience hall they experience the work of an researcher and collection manager. Not because of an exhibition, but by really watching the scientist in everything they do. Anyone with a nature question is welcome at Naturalis and receives an answer from an expert.

Photography: Koen Mol and Mike Bink

Client: Pon

Designer: Onne Brouwer, Designwolf

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 01-10-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

Pon opens the MOVE Mobility Experience with the aim of making visitors of all ages think about the future of mobility. Because of the busier cities, is this very important. MOVE is the first experience in the Netherlands which are designed totally in this theme. During an interactive journey, the visitor discovered the history and future about mobility.
Pon is the biggest mobility group of the Netherlands. The brands Gazelle, Swapfiets, Caterpillar, Greenwheels, Shuttel, Volkswagen, SEAT, Audi, Porsche and Bentley belong to its products and services package. The realisation of the new experience contribute directly to the liveability of the city Amsterdam. Various forms of partial transport are offered from a hub, such as the electric bicycle and car.

In cooperation with Yipp and Designwolf, Bruns developed five interactive games for the experience centre. Games that guide young and old along past, present and future of mobility.

Pon has the ambition to change the theme of the museum every nine months in the Move mobility experience centre. The exhibits developed are of course suitable for this.

Photo: Sara-Dona Manev

Client: War Heritage Institute

Designer: War Heritage institute

Location: Brussel, Belgium

Surface m2: 1500

Realization: 09-05-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

War, occupation, liberation is the biggest national overview exhibition about the WWll. With more than 1000 collection items, the new exhibition presents an overview of the most loaded period between 1919 and 1945 in Belgian history. The new exhibition tells the story of the occupation and liberation of the country in 1940-1944. The end of the war in Europe and Asia in 1944-1945 is also brought to the attention. Finally national socialist repression, persecution and genocidary politics in 1933-1945 are considered.

Special about this exhibition is that it traces far beyond the lines of traditional military history. In addition, much attention is paid to social, political, economic and human consequences of the war. In short, the exhibition is a nuanced, historical- scientific story in which the options, possibilities and ‘choices’ form the red thread the course of the warfare.

Client: Bailleul Design Agency

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Merksplas, Belgium

Surface m2: 380

Realization: 02-06-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Young and old are immersed in the history and future of this potential UNESCO World Heritage. In the early 19th century, General Johannes van den Bosch founded seven colonies of charity. In the new and interactive visitor center ‘Colony 5-7’ comes this unique story of poverty alleviation and the utopian Experiment again to life.

With the support of Tourism Flanders, Kempens Landschap developed an Interactive, dynamic and multilingual visitor center. On the basis of Chronological and interactive arrangements. Visitors are included in the story of the colonies, their origin and further development. They are immersed in the personal walks, the cultural and natural wealth of the areas. This makes the visitors curious about discovering themselves in the area.

Photography: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Client: DEMAKERSVAN

Designer: Jeroen Verhoeven

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 15-09-2005

Disciplines: Interior

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

One of the jewels of the 2012 Dutch Design Week was the Cinderella table by Rotterdam-based designers DEMAKERSVAN. The table is made from 57 layers of 13 layer multiplex. Initially, the table was designed entirely by computer. The layers were cut out bit by bit by a computer-controlled CNC router. After that, the 57 players were stuck together and finished by hand.

Twenty-three copies of this work of art were created and can now be found all over the world. Some are owned by art lovers and others are on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim museum in New York.

Client: Tjep.

Designer: Frank Tjepkema

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 10-01-2006

Disciplines: Interior

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Chair of Textures is made from stainless steel. The beautifully intricate details are made using a laser cutter. This is an example of what you can achieve with modern technology. All the shapes of first drawn on a computer. After that, the laser cutter cuts the shapes into the sheet material. If you look carefully, you can see that the chair is constructed from three layers of stainless steel sheeting.

The chair features all kinds of details. The legs are enveloped in flames. The front legs feature a flower pattern and a heart and butterflies are incorporated into the back of the chair. What makes this chair unique is that the Tjep designers have not allowed themselves to be restricted by the traditional chair shape. The planes and butterflies interweave outside the traditional chair boundaries. The Chair of Textures is being sold by Droog design.

Client: Espace des Science

Designer: Espace des Science

Location: Rennes, France

Surface m2: 250

Realization: 21-06-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The ‘Espace des sciences’ centre, which may be translated as the “Science Centre”, is an organization dedicated to the promotion and the diffusion of scientific, technical and industrial culture to a wide audience.

The ambition of the Espace des sciences is to share with the largest amount of people, the pleasure of learning about scientific knowledge. Its goal is to give rise to scientific vocations as its audience is wide and particularly young. A direct connection between scientists and people at large is promoted. To make science accessible, visitors are invited to experiment and manipulate. The Espace des sciences owns 3 exhibition rooms (each of 300 m²), a 95-seater planetarium and has at its disposal a 450-seater lecture hall. The Espace des sciences imagines, creates and presents its own exhibitions (touring or not), its own astronomy sessions, its own books, magazine and website.

Laboratoire de Merlin
After 10 years of scientific adventure, Merlin decided to completely transform his laboratory. Find Galette and Ribot, his faithful apprentice in a transformed space ready to welcome you to new scientific experiments!

Client: VVV Zeeland

Designer: MMEK’ experience bv

Location: Renesse, The Netherlands

Realization: 01-03-2018

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The new VVV inspiration point in Renesse opened. A small museum where people can get a quick first impression of Renesse and Zeeland.

The consumer of today has high demands on how and where he goes on vacation. He has already seen and done a lot, and wants to be informed in other ways. People do not want to just get a flyer anymore. They want to get inspired. Experience something. VVV Renesse thereon responded through various interactive exhibits that already tell a little more about the most beautiful places in the region in their own way. Of course, the flyers are still there and the tourists can always contact the staff behind the counter.

Renesse is after Domburg the second Zeeland Tourist Office that is arranged according to the new formula. 

Client: Koninklijke Eise Eisinga Planetarium

Designer: Ontwerpbureau Schenk i.s.m. Eise Eisinga Planetarium

Location: Franeker, Nederland

Surface m2: 100

Realization: 01-04-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium has been officially opened. In the rooms in Eisinga's historic house, visitors can view his manuscripts. These manuscripts about mathematics, astronomy and the instruction book on the operation of his planetarium can be viewed digitally.

There is also room for temporary exhibitions. The opening exhibition 'Sailing on the Stars' was created in cooperation with Museum Boerhaave from Leiden, which made an important part of their collection of navigation instruments available for this purpose.

The interactive educational exhibition 'Space' introduces visitors to the operation of a number of astronomical instruments from the planetarium's collection. In addition to touch screens with information and animations about the operation of instruments, the visitor can make observations themselves using models of, for example, a sextant and telescope. This way, the origin of solar and lunar eclipses is made clear. With the expansion, the atmospheric city garden behind the building has also become accessible to the public.

All activities are in perfect keeping with Eise Eisinga's principles, namely popularising astronomy. Eisinga built his Planetarium to educate visitors, and has done so since 1781 to this day.

Photography: Combi Hommema, Franeker

Client: Municipality of Kasterlee

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency

Location: Kasterlee, Belgium

Surface m2: 250

Realization: 30-09-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Kasterlee’s new tourist information office is open to residents and visitors of Kasterlee. Kasterlee is an outstanding tourist town with over 90 trade patients, 285.000 overnight stays and dozens of tourist events. From the moment the white building was acquired next to the town hall, it was clear that the new tourist information office would be housed there. Over the last ten years, the number of desk visitors in the tourist information office was evolved from 2.700 visitors in 2000 to 11.000 visitors in 2017, an important indicator for continuing personal and direct reception despite the new media.

The new regional tourist information office focuses on the themes pumpkins, gnomes, gastronomy and active recreation. The reception desk and the experience space from the pivot of the tourist information office. It is a very innovative office with a lot of attention to the experience.

Photography: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Client: Foundation Museum of World Cultures

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Leiden, Arnhem, Utrecht, Zwolle

Surface m2: 40

Realization: 28-09-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

With over 375.000 objects, the Tropenmuseum, Africa Museum and the Museum of Anthropology manage a huge amount of usage prescriptions from around the world. Most of this is stored in the underground depot which of course is a reals shame.

For that reason, they asked a number of well-known Dutch people to choose their favorite items from this enormous collection. These specially assembled collections are featured in exhibitions presented specially for that purpose built mini museums at different NS stations in the Netherlands. With a design from NorthernLight, Bruns was responsible for the construction and installation of the various mini museums.

Photography:
Jacqueline Spaans
Studio 38c

Client: Foundation The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Designer: Wilmotte & Associés, Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 14500

Realization: 12-04-2013

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Rijksmuseum is the most famous museum in the Netherlands.In the new Rijksmuseum absolutely everything is new! There is an entirely new installation, a fully renovated building, new public facilities, in newly laid out garden and a brand-new Asian Pavilion. The Night Watch is the only exhibit to be returned to its original location. In 80 rooms, 8,000 art and historical objects tell the story of 800 years of Dutch culture from the Middle Ages up to the present day.

As exhibition constructor, Bruns was responsible for furnishing the Asian Pavilion, the Special Collections exhibition and 20th century Gallery. In addition, Bruns B.V. was asked to develop all the mountings for the museum pieces and eventually install them on location.

The Asian Pavilion is a building designed by Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos that houses the museum’s collection of Asian art. There is a serene exhibition which consists of free-standing images made from various materials on pedestals and various display cabinets where the emphasis is on wall-hung cabinets. 

The Special Collections exhibition concerns an exhibition designed by Wilmotte & Associés S.A. in the basement of the museum. It is a high density exhibition displaying related collections of silver, glass, porcelain, pottery, weapons and model ships. These objects are displayed exclusively in display cases designed in line with the architecture.

Client: AG Vespa

Designer: Beyer Blinder Belle, Christophe Gaeta, Ingenieursbureau Arcade

Location: Antwerpen, Belgium

Surface m2: 1500

Realization: 12-07-2013

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The basis of the Red Star Line Museum consists of stories of people who travelled to America with the shipping company. The focus is on six witnesses, including Albert Einstein and Irving Berlin. The main exhibition takes visitors along the various phases of the journey from the travel agents in Warsaw to the new life in the United States. The aim is to give an impression of the tough journey European migrants had to complete in order to seek a better future.

The last part of the exhibition links the past with the present in order to show that migration is universal and timeless. With a view to providing a better impression of all the stories collected by the Red Star Line Museum, the collection contains various personal items such as photos and documents, as well as objects donated to the museum by the descendants of the passengers.

The Red Star Line Museum is a museum packed with memories, at an authentic location, where the focus is on the visitors’ experience. The forgotten history is brought to life from the perspective of the people who experienced it.

Photography: Michel Wuyts

Client: Foundation Natura Artis Magistra

Designer: Kossman.dejong

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 850

Realization: 19-09-2014

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Her Majesty Queen Máxima of The Netherlands has opened Micropia in Amsterdam on the 30th of September 2014. Micropia is a unique museum that is set to inspire the general public, encouraging their interest in microorganisms and microbiology.

The visual and the experiential are central, while the focus is firmly on the mostly positive relationship between microbes and humans. Bruns developed together with design studio Kossmanndejong and ART + COM studios world’s first museum of microorganisms.

Micropia aims at becoming also an international platform for microbiology that brings diverse interest groups together in order to bridge the gap between science and the general public. The uniqueness of Micropia lies in its mix of living and virtual microbes. Most exhibits show living microorganisms as well as having a media extension. Film, images and text provide insight into microbe appearance and behaviour, and the diversity of the microorganism relationship with humans.

Photography: Maarten van der Wal en Thijs Wolzak

Client: Pidpa CV

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Herentals, Belgium

Realization: 11-09-2013

Disciplines: Interior

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Discover the wonderful world of water at Hidrodoe: fun – exciting – educational.

It is not a museum in the strict sense of the word but a real hands-on experience centre which fully involves visitors and even allows them to experiment. By experimenting with more than 80 mental and physical water-related displays visitors, and particularly children, can expand their knowledge of water. The Water Maker is displayed in the central section and shows all the phases that water goes to before it comes out of the tap is drinking water.

In Hidrodoe you can also experiment with water in the open air in the Blue Water Garden. Here you will find fantastic experiments such as the pump game, the water umbrella, the spring fountain and the hydraulic lift.

Client: Petroleum Development Oman LLC

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Muscat, Oman

Surface m2: 700

Realization: 12-11-2010

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

Petroleum Development Oman’s new EcOman Center in Mina al Fahal is a journey through the evolution and future of energy. The EcOman Center is a centre where visitors of any age can learn about the possibilities, and the use, of sustainable sources of energy.

The center focuses on three themes: Power Tower, Better World and Energy Journey.

Power Tower
Visitors start their tour with the Power Tower, which shows the sources and the impact that energy has using technical illustrations, animations and interactive demonstration models.

Energy Journey
Visitors can then discover how human beings have developed technologies to use natural sources of energy. This starts with the discovery of fire and continues to the present day and the combustion of fossil fuels and production of electricity.

Better World
Visitors continue on to the Better World where they will learn how you can have a positive impact on the world. Here they will see models of eco-friendly houses with displays showing how eco-friendly resources, recycling programmes and energy storage take place in practice.

Client: Municipality Genk

Designer: NU Architectuuratelier

Location: Genk, Belgium

Surface m2: 1500

Realization: 12-06-2013

Disciplines: Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

C-mine, which is housed on the foundations of the mine in Winterslag and is a site which is designed to stimulate creativity. C-mine intends to be a meeting place for people who want to be stimulated in their professional lives or leisure time by various forms of creativity and creative innovation. C-mine brings vitality and offers new experiences, stimulates curiosity and challenges people to make new discoveries. The C-mine site is a unique, authentic and wondrous place with a living past and an interesting and creative exhibition. C-mine is a place where a wide variety of people and ideas meet each other and share their creativity. A visit to the site is an experience that will excite any visitor.

With C-mine you’ll achieve an ‘inexhaustible’ highlight. An impressive fan welcomes you for a special tour that will take you through the underground passageways. You will be surprised with original installations that will touch your senses with no doubt.

Client: Technopolis

Designer: Technopolis

Location: Mechelen, Belgium

Realization: 30-10-2015

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

‘Become Entrepreneur’ will cover 2 ‘clusters’ of the existing interactive exhibition Xplora. Xplora is primarily intended for 8 to 14-year-olds. These youngsters are in a crucial phase of life in which they make the first decisions that determine their further educational and career choices.

The exhibits are set up in clusters of three or four, based on a profession that fires the imagination. Youngsters are encouraged to try out and experiment with the interactive exhibits. They are also offered information on real courses and professions that they can choose later.

Client: Weaving Museum Geldrop

Designer: Bob Bruns | Marcus van Roode

Location: Geldrop, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 500

Realization: 02-05-2018

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The Weverijmuseum Geldrop, a unique museum of its kind, that really brings the memory of Geldrop to life as an important textile city in the 19th and 20th century. This starts with the property in which the museum is housed: a striking factory building at the Kleine Dommel, in which the “Wollenstoffenfabriek A. van den Heuvel and Son” was located. It will be reinforced when you enter the museum. A lot of activity. The weaving looms, often wonders of technology, are clogged as they are called by the weavers and are served by enthusiastic volunteers who used to be active as weavers or otherwise involved in the textile industry.

Responding to the latest developments, the new museum is set up in such a way that the visitor can find his or her way in the museum on the basis of age or interest. In doing so, the visitor gains knowledge about the building, about all kinds of aspects related to weaving and the related looms and machines. The development of the weaving industry in the Netherlands and the role played by the textile industry in Geldrop-Mierlo in the region have also been included.

Photography: Marco Magielse

Client: Tourist Office Zeeland

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Goes, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 140

Realization: 29-11-2018

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

VVV Goes is the sixth location that has been transformed into the new VVV Inspiration Point formula of Zeeland. In the new Inspiration Point the visitor experience stories of the city and surroundings in word and image. Via interactive screens visitors are informed about sights, history and events of Goes. Director of VVV Zeeland Erik van den Dobbelsteen says: “The information keeps, but mainly inspiration and experience are central now. In the new design there is chosen for a dynamical approach, which the visitors give the possibility to discover the Zeeuw in himself.

Special about this renovation is that a joint entrance has been realized with the adjacent Historical Museum the Bevelanden. A combination visit is now made easy. In addition, the viability of both is increased, so that the Beverlands heritage is preserved.

Client: VVV Goeree-Overflakkee

Designer: Potztausend

Location: Ouddorp, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 185

Realization: 01-03-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The tourist office Goeree-Overflakkee established in ‘t Blaeuwe Huus in Ouddorp is no longer reminiscent of a traditional tourist office. The visitor can, in a contemporary and interactive way, explore what to see and do at Goeree-Overflakkee in the new inspiration point.

With his tourist office, moderator Jeroen den Hollander want to fill in the hospitality in a modern way: “We want to receive guests in a unique way and inspire them to discover more of our beautiful island. The guests expects more and more experience and interaction and this new inspiration point fully responds to that. In addition to visitors, it is also interesting for residents to visit.” Alderman Tea Both agrees with Jeroen; “The new tourist inspiration point is really special, an asset to the island.” This project was created under the leadership of Patrick Polie of DestinatieX.

Photography: Wim van Vossen

Client: VVV Zeeland

Designer: MMEK' experience bv

Location: Domburg, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 100

Realization: 19-02-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

VVV Domburg has undergone a genuine metamorphosis. The store has been converted from information point to inspiration point. There is a new formula developed where guests are offered a Zeeland experience. 

The consumer of today has high demands on how and where he goes on vacation. He has already seen and done a lot and wants to be informed in other ways. People expect more than just only a flyer. They want to get inspired. Experience something. VVV Zeeland has responded by means of a touch table with an interactive map of the province, headphones that show various Zeeland dialects and an inspirational screen with images of the most beautiful places in the region. Of course the flyers have also been given a place in the renewed building and the tourists can as usual contact the staff behind the counter. Domburg is the first Zeeland Tourist Office that is according to the new formula furnished. 

Client: VVV Alkmaar

Designer: MMEK’ experience bv

Location: Alkmaar, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 150

Realization: 23-03-2018

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

When you are visiting Alkmaar, VVV Alkmaar is of course the starting point for your day out! They will tell you what you absolutely can not miss when visiting this beautiful monumental cheese town. They are located in one of the most beautiful icons of Alkmaar, the Waag building, where the cheese market takes place on the Friday between April and September. In the spacious store you will find a wide range of gift vouchers and of course real Alkmaar (cheese) souvenirs.

Client: South Limburg Tourist Office

Designer: Led by Edith Kurris

Location: Valkenburg a/d Geul, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 65

Realization: 22-05-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

“Our world changed and we change whit it”: said Anya Niewierra, Managing Director of visit South Limburg, during the launch of de new name and logo. The oldest tourist information office in the Netherlands has changed its name after 134 years. The reason for this was the growth in the number of foreign guests and de changing role of the VVV. 

The renewed location in Valkenburg is now the Visit South Limburg Experience, where the word inspire is central. The new experience enters the role as shop and source of inspiration for a further visit to the region. In a contemporary manner the visitor experience the trusted services and difference experiences. The visitor can of course book events, taste regional products, buy the VVV Gift Card or get personal advice from one of the expert employees. After all, it remains a reliable tourist office.   

Client: Sartor Holding AS

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Sotra, Norway

Surface m2: 1000

Realization: 22-05-2015

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The entirely new VilVite Sotra Science Centre has been opened. Through a design and build construction Bruns in cooperation with design agency NorthernLight was responsible for the total realisation of this unique Science Center.

The vision of the shopping centre is to “offer a friendly and pleasant shopping experience”. To support this they want to offer a variety of experiences to make people stay longer in the centre. They also want to communicate their social responsi- bility through investing in an extensive community program. As part of the package they want to present experiences beyond pure entertainment giving additional values to the visit. This VilVite branch should place somewhat more emphasis on entertainment than education compared to our existing science centre. And there is no intention to offer curriculum based educational school programs like VilVite does. Some of the content has to relate to the local industry, which to a great extent is oil and gas oriented, including a subsea centre of expertise.

photography: Thor Brødreskift / VilVite Sotra

Client: The Postal Museum

Designer: KCA London

Location: London, England

Surface m2: 200

Realization: 29-06-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Let your children run off steam in the miniature world of mail. There’s sackloads of fun to be had! The Postal Museum has a dedicated play space for children aged 0-8 which is perfect for little ones to exercise their imaginations and use up excess energy. It features: Trolleys, pulleys, slides and chutes, Weighing machines, letter boxes and a vintage post van. Toy town building blocks, Uniforms to try on, an interactive Sorting Office and a mini neighbourhood of streets and houses. The perfect family stopping post? We’ve got it… Sorted!

Fotografie: Copyright The Postal Museum / Miles Willis

Client: City Kortrijk

Designer: noAarchitecten, Madoc bvba

Location: Kortrijk, Belgium

Surface m2: 3000

Realization: 08-10-2014

Disciplines: Interior, Mechatronics, Robotics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Texture tells the story of the linen and flax industry. It is a story with extremely strong roots that bear witness to tough skill and entrepreneurship, of daring innovation and adaptability and of continual self-reinvention. In three rooms, set up as an authentic flax depot (1912), visitors can find out about the revolutionary development caused by a flax industry in this region. Visitors will not only be surprised by the historical accounts, but also be amazed and inspired by stories of the present and the future.

Three rooms, three stories
You use flax every day without knowing it and in unexpected locations. Designers, scientists and entrepreneurs make maximum use of it. Discover, taste, feel and test their products in the Wonder Room.

The Leie Room tells the story of the flax and linen industry. It is a story of highs and lows, people who, without any outside help, continually found the resilience to survive serious crises. It is a fascinating story of thinkers who dared to do.

Under the golden crown is the Treasure Room. This is the place to marvel at the beautiful damasks, laces, handwork and fine fabrics that enrich this exceptional textile collection.

Client: Verstraete | Vanhecke

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency en Architectenbureau Michel Janssen bvba

Location: Tongeren, Belgium

Surface m2: 750

Realization: 01-06-2016

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

In a sublime historical context – the chapter house, Romanesque tower, convent, cloister and monastery gardens – you can see the rich collection of the church treasure displayed in the new museum. This treasure, is extraordinary and practically complete, and includes arts from the 6th to the 20th century.

The modern scenography takes you to a unique museum experience through the ancient church treasure. At the heart of the museum you can find historical treasure. The unique collection of fascinating stories and high tech go hand in hand in the new Teseum. Every effort is made to appeal to both you and old. Children and young people follow their own course with an app that suits their environment. One learns about the basilica, how it came about, what it is made and how it is used.

You will also be sucked into the strong musical character of the collection. The medieval manuscripts are brought to life thanks to the collaboration with the Alamire Foundation, International Center for Study of Music in the Lower Countries. The thematic story ends at the Coronation Celebrations, a few years ago recognized as Flemish Intangible Cultural Heritage. Thus, the bridge is established between past, present and future.

Photography: Architectenbureau Michel Janssen

Client: Terramar Museum

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Kralendijk, Bonaire

Surface m2: 150

Realization: 06-08-2016

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Caribbean Islands are some of the most highly regarded travel destinations in the world. Most tourists however don’t have any historical knowledge of the Carribean intoxicating mix of cultural confrontations, that left and still leave their traces. With thousands of visitors pulling in on daily basis Terramar offers a platform to tell this story. Understanding this history can provide visitors with a richer and more satisfying view on this beautiful part of the world.

The overall idea of the Terramar Museum is to tell the stories behind historical objects by staging encounters with local habitants of the Caribbean in different historical times. Amerindian talk about their first encounters with a European colonialists, a slave talks about the harsh life on the plantations. Through a combination of historical artefacts, fascinating stories and interactive experiences, history comes to life at Terramar Museum.

Client: Techmania Science Centre

Designer: A.M.O.S. Design

Location: Pilzen, Tsjechië

Surface m2: 10000

Realization: 18-04-2014

Disciplines: Interior, Mechatronics, Robotics

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The Pilsner Techmania Science Center is one of the most unique projects of its kind in the Czech Republic.

The goal of Techmania is to help the public, especially young people, to get more familiar with science, technology and with the development of human knowledge in general. Another aim is to point out the unanswered questions for which the next generation, the young visitors of the science center, would find answers.

Techmania is based on explanations of particular physical or mathematical principles by means of game-like activities. The interactivity involves visitors making the exhibits move, so the natural principle will be demonstrated by the particular process. In these cases, learning is based on personal experience.

Client: Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV

Designer: DST- The experience agency

Location: Ijmuiden, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 600

Realization: 01-10-2018

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

Tata Steel is market leader of Europe as a producer of high-grade steel for the automotive industry, packaging industry and mechanical engineering. They works following the strategy to help their customers overcome the challenges and be more successful in their market by creating innovative products and services. In this strategy are the following priorities important to Tata Steel: ‘Customer Focus’, ‘Innovation’, ‘Operational Excellence’, ‘Responsibility’ and ‘People’.

Tata Steel felt the need for a reception area located in the current Innovation Centre of Ijmuiden to give the full attention during the first meeting with their customers. Bruns, in cooperation with DST- the experience agency, has created and realized a reception area with the aim to create a new Visitor Experience. The reception area is furnished in such a way that Tata Steel can efficiently and thoroughly zoom in on the issue of the visiting (potential) customer, looking for really needs and challenges.

Photography: Tata Steel

Client: Toerisme Vlaams Brabant

Designer: Fugzia

Location: Tremelo-Baal, Belgium

Surface m2: 250

Realization: 28-06-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Sven Nys Cycling Center: The place for off-road cycling
The Sven Nys Cycling Center is opened in Tremelo-Baal, Beglium. The Center is the place for off-road cycling in Flanders and is located on the beaytiful domain Balenberg, where the annual Grand Prix Sven Nys is organized. The center is not a classic museum but an experience center where you will be immersed in the atmosphere of cyclocross: pain, suffering and all kind of different shirts. It is aimed at children, schools, tourists but especially for the real bike fanatic.

The experience center is the hub of the Sven Nys Cycling Center. Amoung the champoin jerseys you walk from one historical moment to another cycling victory. One can take a look at the camper field where the riders are preparing for a race. Sports enthusiasts can in a sandbox testing themselves how far they get themselves and there is also a possibility to test themselves in the Energy Lab that belongs to the center. At the bar you can expand your cycling knowledge via a challenging quiz. And after all that effort, one can relax and chat afterwards at the Velo bar!

Photography: BELGA

Client: The province of Antwerp

Designer: Pronk Studio

Location: Kalmthout, Belgium

Surface m2: 450

Realization: 06-07-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

In the Suske and Wiske museum, visitors themselves go on strip tour. Cartoonist Willy Vandersteen takes children from 8 to 12 years old in his old villa. He lets them playfully discover via an interactive journey how to make a good comic strip. In this museum are learning, experiencing and doing central. In addition to receiving school groups, the museum will also be accessible to private individuals from now. 

Drawing a new comic goes through nine different zones, which stimulate the imagination and creativity of the visitor. The zones consist of: Improvisation, Villains, (text)balloons, Time machine, Problem, Wonder, Body language, Characters and Atmosphere. All previously shown characters from the various series, periods or storylines of Vandersteen can be used through the visitors.

Client: Foundation SUPERMODELS

Designer: Concern

Location: Traveling Exhibition

Realization: 17-04-2014

Disciplines: Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

SUPERMODELS is an overview, in miniature, of key Dutch designs in the field of furniture, interiors and architecture. Iconic works by modern designers are linked to earlier examples from the time of Gerrit Rietveld and H.P. Berlage. In this way, SUPERMODELS reflects the creativity of Dutch designers and architects, and reflects the rich heritage from which the current generations have developed. The exhibition consists mainly of 3D printed furniture.

After starting in Milan, followed by a successful exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, SUPERMODELS was on display in Tbilisi in Georgia in September. At the invitation of the embassy and with the opening being performed by the local mayor, the show in the Europe House on Freedom Square attracted a substantial number of visitors. In October 2014, SUPERMODELS was featured during the Dutch Design Week in Strijp-S in Eindhoven which was one of the top locations during the event. The Clock Building is a former Philips factory building and, during the DDW, offered space to around 100 participants from a variety of design disciplines.

Client: Autonomous municipal company Borgloon

Designer: Design agency Bailleul

Location: Borgloon, Belgium

Surface m2: 1500

Realization: 29-03-2019

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

The Syrup Factory in Borgloon is one of the last remnants of the industrial processing of fruit into syrup. The historical core of the steam syrup factory is transformed into a tourist zone consisting of; a fruit experience centre, regional product shop, party room and bistro named ‘De Smaakfabriek’, where top chef Giovani Oosters will serve regional cuisine. Bruns, in cooperation with design agency Bailleul, has ensured that the visitor can immediately taste the rich past among the monumental industrial machines. Borgloon will be a meeting- and experience place that shows residents and visitors the inseparable link between fruit, syrup and Borgloon.

Visitors of the fruit experience centre can, partly due to the audio-visual effects of Create, discover the story of the Haspengouwse fruit and its processing. They follow, based on fun and educational experience modules, at their own tempo the way that a delicious piece of Loons fruit travels.

Photography: Bailleul Ontwerpbureau

Client: Opera Amsterdam

Designer: Opera Amsterdam

Location: Buckingham, England

Surface m2: 700

Realization: 30-10-2015

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

Stowe House in Buckinghamshire is one of England’s earliest and most important Neo classical palaces and sits as the glorious centrepiece of the world famous Stowe landscape gardens. Built and remodelled throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Stowe House is considered an architectural masterpiece filled with the innovation and imagination of some of the greatest designers, artists and architects of all time. It captures the beauty and wisdom of ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese and Saxon cultures and its architecture and decoration demonstrate how cultures from all over the world can inspire new thinking, creativity and design. In turn, Stowe has inspired creativity, literature and imaginative thought all over the world. The national and international importance of Stowe is further recognised by its inclusion on the list of potential World Heritage Sites.

The Enlightenment for All Project will radically transform visitor access and enjoyment of Stowe House. It will achieve this through the creation of innovative new visitor spaces and facilities and through the delivery of an exciting and imaginative combination of interpretation and activities that will break new ground in how we engage people with historic houses in the 21st century. Stowe House wants to revive visitors and communities as a place where past wisdom and beauty inspire exciting new ideas, creativity and imagination in people. By showing them that heritage can act as the inspirational starting point for their own forward-thinking creative journeys, and that history can inspire new creativity and new ideas in today’s modern lives. This creative spirit and approach will underpin all learning and participation opportunities created as part of the Enlightenment for All Project and should exist as a strong thread through all interpretative themes, storylines, tools, techniques and approaches.

Client: Bailleul Design Agency bvba

Designer: Bailleul Design Agency bvba

Location: Antwerp, Belgium

Surface m2: 400

Realization: 23-02-2018

Disciplines: Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

In Antwerp, one of the city’s most beautiful museums has been renewed and expanded: the Snijders&Rockox House. Nicolaas Rockox and Frans Snijders were pivotal figures in Antwerp in the baroque period. Both made their mark on the cultural and social life of their city. Nicolaas as mayor, Frans as a skilled painter of animals and still lifes. For 20 years they were also neighbors: they lived in two adjoining homes in the Keizerstraat. Both buildings, restored with care, are part of KBC’s patrimony, which the Rockox House has long opened as a museum and now adds the Snijdershuis. Over the shoulders of Nicholas and Frans, we look at making art and promoting art, to collecting and displaying, to markets and set tables, to the humanist and the modal citizen in the turbulent baroque era.

Bruns was commissioned by design agency Bailleul for the realization of the Snijders & Rockox house. The realization involved a number of interior elements such as benches and cupboards, various display cases, mounts for paintings, instruments and other objects and graphic works.

Photography: Patrick De Roo

Client: Alghanim International

Designer: Cultural Innovations

Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait

Surface m2: 1350

Realization: 12-01-2018

Disciplines: Mechatronics, Robotics, Audio-visual and multimedia

Work fields: Science centre

Themes:

The Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Complex is a 13 hectare site in the Al-Sha’ab area on the Western shore. It will house four world-class Museums, a Fine Art’s Centre, a theatre and two Information Centres, with the facilities being linked by a central covered ‘street’ allowing visitors and residents to pass through the site from the city to the seashore of the Arabian Gulf. The museums will cover Natural History, Science, Space, Islam and Fine Arts. With a total exhibit area of approximately 22,000m2 it makes the project the largest single-delivery museum project in the World at the current time.

Bruns was appointed by Beck Interiors Ltd (responsible for the overall project management) in 2014 to develop, produce and install the Robot Gallery for currently world’s largest cultural project at the moment – the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre. Using our wealth of experience in museums, science and attractions development, the Bruns team has curated a modern, unique and immersive series of Robot interactives.

Client: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave

Designer: Opera Amsterdam

Location: Leiden, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 1350

Realization: 15-12-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave offers young and old a peek into the intriguing world of science and medicine. The world-famous collection and the new interior show what it is all about in science: curiosity, courage, creativity and perseverance. In the words of Robbert Dijkgraaf, ambassador of the museum: ‘You see it all with your own eyes, you get a feeling for the history, for the challenges, for the adventure, but also for the romance of this great scientific discoveries.‘

With microscopes by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the oldest artificial kidney, the fountain pen by Albert Einstein, the first breeding citizen and much more, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave owns a top collection. In order to bring the objects to life they are given extra company in the new presentation. This is how researchers are attachted to the exhibition and patients who underwent treatments with exhibited devices. Movies, audio clips, animations, digital magazines with extra information, games, replicas you can sit on: the visitor will be invited to be involved in the museums‘ story.

Photography: Mike Bink

Client: Office Public Works

Designer: Pearse Museum

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Surface m2: 150

Realization: 11-12-2014

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Pearse Museum is dedicated to the memory of Patrick Pearse and his brother, William. Patrick Pearse was an educationalist and nationalist who was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising. The museum is situated in the suburb of Rathfarnham on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. It was formerly an Irish speaking school named St. Enda’s. After Pearse was executed for his part take in the 1916 rising, and due to decreasing numbers and increasing financial worries, the school closed in 1935. After Padraig Pearse’s sister died in 1968, St. Enda’s and its grounds were handed over to the state, and the school house is now a Museum devoted to the Pearse brothers.

Bruns was responsible for the engineering, manufacture, supply, delivery and installation of exhibition cases. The exhibition cases included various types and sizes including delivery, on site assembly, levelling and the production of detailed shop drawings for approval by the architect. The Pearse Museum is located in the grounds of St. Enda’s Park, Rathfarnham - Dublin.

Client: A'DAM Lookout

Designer: NorthernLight

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Realization: 25-08-2016

Disciplines: Mechatronics, Robotics

Work fields: Visitor and Information centre

Themes:

According to many people, this is the coolest attraction of Amsterdam at the moment. The 'Over The Edge' swing is finally open! On no less than 100 meters this sensational swing is positioned on the roof of the A'DAM Tower. A swing for real daredevils so. Even though this swing found 100% safe, you still need a little guts and probably no vertigo.

'Over The Edge' is the highest swing in Europe. At 100 meters altitude you fly back and forth over the edge of the A'DAM Tower and you have an awesome view over Amsterdam.

Bruns is responsible for the realization of this exciting attraction. Visitors sit in the swing and be secured in a safety bracket. Everything is hydraulically activated, but you can also swing youself a little.

Photography: Martijn Kort, Dennis Bouman, Huub Zeeman en Cris Toala Olivares

Client: Maritime Museum Rotterdam

Designer: Kossmann.dejong

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 800

Realization: 16-12-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

The Maritime Museum Rotterdam opens the Offshore Experience, a challenging search at sea for energy from oil, gas and wind. You can experience what it is like at sea and at a depth of three kilometres underwater, where you can see for yourselves how drillers, crane drivers, wind turbine specialists and helicopter pilots manage to do their spectacular jobs on the open sea. And you can help think about tomorrow’s energy sources. The exhibition is the first experience in the Netherlands about a sector in which the country is a big player - Holland’s modern-day maritime prowess.

In the Offshore Experience, young and adult visitors go on a challenging search at sea for energy. Wearing a safety vest and a helmet, you’ll think you’re on board an offshore construction in the middle of the sea. 

Photography: Marco de Swart

Client: Nestec SA

Designer: Tinker Imagineers

Location: Vevey, Switzerland

Surface m2: 6626

Realization: 02-06-2016

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics

Work fields: Brand experience centre

Themes:

Nestlé opens its doors to the public. Visitors will receive an interactive and personal look behind the scenes. They will accompany the enterprise on a journey through the past, present and future. Nestlé displays its diversity across five different zones, with ‘care, enjoy, improve & share’ as the motif.

An eye-catching feature in Piazza, the central atrium, is a life-size tree composed of more than 1200 flowers handmade from various product packages (designed by Rina van der Weij). Fondations brings visitors back to when the company was established in the 19th century in an authentic, timed attraction. Zeitgeist is devoted to 150 years of history and links Nestlé’s products, images and stories to iconic moments in world history.

The present-day Forum uses interactive ways to make visitors conscious of world food issues and appeals to collective responsibility. Visions consists of a spectacular world under the glass roof and symbolises the future. Visitors experience the passion of scientists and their creative innovations through games and a VR experience. Children have their own discovery journey that leads them through nest.

Photography: Mike Bink

Client: National Army Museum

Designer: Event Communications Ltd

Location: London, England

Surface m2: 2307

Realization: 28-03-2017

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

Founded in 1960 by Royal Charter, the National Army Museum was established for the purpose of collecting, preserving and exhibiting objects and records relating to the history of the Land Forces of the Crown. Initially the museum was created to communicate the story of the British Amy from its establishment in 1640 to 1914 and later to cover post-1914 and modern day military operations.

In 2011 the National Army Museum launched a new strategic plan for renewing their museum with a mission to gather, maintain and make known the story of the British Army and its role and impact on world history. To provide a museum experience that meets the widest range of public need and connects the British public with its Army. The National Army Museum wants to be an audience-focus museum which concentrates on the importance of attracting, maintaining and diversifying the audience reached. 

Central to the new proposition is the development of a series of new and innovative permanent galleries. The National Army Museum moved from presenting a chronological approach to its story to a thematic one. With this brand new museum the National Army Museum’s ambition is to be as accessible as possible to all audiences.

Bruns was responsible for the all showcases in the five new galleries of the National Army Museum.

Client: Heijmans

Designer: Kossmann.dejong

Location: Soesterberg, The Netherlands

Surface m2: 35000

Realization: 11-12-2014

Disciplines: Interior, Showcases, Audio-visual and multimedia, Graphics, Museum lighting

Work fields: Museum

Themes:

At the beginning of December 2014, King Willem-Alexander opened the National Military Museum (NMM) at the former air force base in Soesterberg. The merger of the Military Aviation Museum and the Delft Army Museum to form this new museum created 35,000 m² of exhibition space for an impressive overview of the past, present and future of the Dutch armed forces.

Together with exhibition architect, bureau Kossmann.dejong, Bruns was responsible for the total museum experience of this NMM. Kossmann.dejong was responsible for the concept and the design and Bruns was responsible for the realisation in the broadest sense of the word, from project management to implementation. The 13,500,000 euros spent on the project makes the National Military Museum one of the largest and most challenging projects in the more than 50 year existence of our company.

The two exhibition areas
The sober black building with all-round glass façades contrasts nicely with its natural surroundings. The old landing strip seems to run through the museum, where daylight is given free play on the ‘Arsenaal’ which is the outermost part of the exhibition. Here enthusiasts will feast their eyes on all the highlights of Dutch military history, from armour to modern fighter jets. The Arsenaal includes a second part of the museum called the Black Box. In contrast with the Arsenaal there is less daylight here and the exhibits are large. The Black Box is an intense experience: seven exciting theatrical environments which focus on different aspects of the military.

With a view to attracting the widest possible range of visitors the exhibition themes are dynamic and layered. Enthusiasts can still find extra information and detail, but that it is not essential in order to get a complete overview. For children there is Xplore, the NMM’s interactive exhibition. Xplore is the Bruns show-piece, where all our expertise comes together. Here children can make their own gunpowder, fly in a F16 simuator and even neutralise enemy tanks.

Photography: Anne Reitsma and Thijs Wolzak

Timelapse Nationaal Militair Museum - Xplore (Interactieve Zone)