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Posts Tagged ‘archeology’

Byblos – The World’s Most Ancient Port

Posted by Anika Ohlerich

Client: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Project: Spatial design for temporary exhibition

Byblos is a major exhibition about the world’s most ancient port in Lebanon. Five hundred objects from the collections of various internationally renowned museums are bearing witness to Byblos’ archaeological and cultural richness. The town situated on the coast of present-day Lebanon played an extraordinary role in the Mediterranean and Middle East from 3000 BC, thanks to the trade in cedar wood. The exposition is designed as a pop-up book, featuring a collection of famous tales from antiquity that took place in or near Byblos. The tales are illustrated by Karst-Janneke Rogaar. Gods and inhabitants of Byblos and the cedar trees are cut-out in life-size and bring the city to life.

Graphic design by Kathrin Hero, illustrations by Karst-Janneke Rogaar

Construction by Koert Verberne en Bouwko Landstra, panel production by Heijmerink Wagemakers

Cedar wood scent by the Snifferoo

Photo 4, 6 and 12  by Kathrin Hero, photographs 7, 9, 11, 13-15, 17 by Arie de Leeuw

October 2022 – March 2023

temples of malta

Posted by Anika Ohlerich

Client: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Project: Spatial design for temporary exhibition

The exhibition Temples of Malta presents Malta’s rich prehistoric culture, a world of temples, tombs and mysterious stone figures. We look back to these ancient times (3600-2500 BC) using contemporary high-tech: Robot cameras hovering over the temple models on eye-level create a monumental live projection that gives the impression of walking through the actual sites.

Another live camera zooms in on one of the so called ‘fat ladies’, enlarging her prehistoric face and underlining the universal and timeless quality of human features.

Visual backbone of the exhibition are the wall banners in a color gradient from dark to light red ochre, the pigment found in tombs and on the stone figures.

Concept and spatial design: Archetypisch

Graphic design: Esther de Vries

Robot camera installation: Uif Putters

Graphic production: Riwi Collotype

Colour gradient by Rosa de Kruif

Cyprus, a dynamic island

Posted by Anika Ohlerich

Cyprus, A Dynamic Island

Client: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Project: Spatial design for temporary exhibition

Cyprus was one of the most important hubs of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean. Thanks to its strategic location, the island has been at the centre of constant movements of people, sovereigns, religions and exchanges of goods. This dynamic scenario takes place in front of a background that always stayed the same: the nature of the island, brilliantly captured by the photography of Natascha Libbert. The combination of photography and archeological collection puts the objects in the context where they come from and shows the timeless beauty of Cypriot art.

Graphic design: Kathrin Hero

Photography: Natascha Libbert, Rob Overmeer, Archetypisch

Built by Fiction factory, graphics by Riwi Collo Type, animations Menno Schrap

persepolis

Posted by Anika Ohlerich

Fascination with Persepolis

Client: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Project: Spatial and graphic design for temporary exhibition

From the fourteenth century on European travellers, photographers and scholars made the long journey to present-day Iran to visit Persepolis, one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in the ancient world. The exhibition shows their impressions captured in drawings, photographs and writings, based on the book by Corien Vuurman. 2017

http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/fascination-with-persepolis