The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum - Breaking the Chains Exhibition
An interactive Exhibition about Britain and the slave trade.
Exploring Britain’s 1700 slave trade ports with the use several interactives to keep visitors enagaged and more recpetive to the information.
Hardwearing two-year exhibition full of interactives.
Beaufort Bespoke was chosen by museum and exhibition design company Smith and Jones Design Consultants to build a series of high-quality durable interactive displays.
Birch plywood was chosen for its tough, hard-wearing characteristics. We used CNC machining in conjunction with direct-to-substrate printing to produce the interactive displays.
We manufactured a freestanding activity ‘race to rehome’ game which featured machined grooves running around the tabletop with sliding counters machined from solid nylon ensuring they were extremely durable. These were then clad with wood.
Beaufort Bespoke recently completed a project for Axminster Heritage Centre. This £137,000 project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund which has completely transformed the whole museum.
We have previously worked with Imagemakers who designed and project managed this project. We were delighted to be working with them again and it was testament to previous projects that helped them yet again.
We were responsible for the practical aspects ensuring that all designs were fit for purpose and robust enough to withstand visitor interaction.