Bringing the World to Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery

museum lighting design must embrace aesthetics, function flexibility, conservation & energy efficiency

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Museum Design Consultants

SMA design is one of the UK's leading museum design consultants focusing on museum design, exhibitions and visitor centres.

With an award-winning team of skilled professionals, we balance interpretation, fresh thinking and innovative technologies, generating surroundings that communicate with visitors in an inspirational and stimulating way.

Our designers are well-known for our innovative museum designs constantly pushes the boundaries to deliver effective unforgettable solutions which:

engage, communicate, relate, influence, provoke, educate, relax, excite and inspire.

Our designs permit museums and galleries to connect with their audience to deliver an innovative, safe and expressive context.

By linking numerous layers of information and feeling to the visitors, objects come to life and stories can be considered and enjoyed. SMA design carries out each phase of a museum project, from the design conception, management of fabrication, to the last stage of installation and handover. This approach guarantees extraordinary quality packages that remain affordable.

Museum Design Services

Feasibility & Concept Development
Graphic Design / Branding / Corporate
Object Mounting & Installation
Conservation Lighting
Conservation
Art Packaging & Transport
Museum Exhibit Design
Cultural & Heritage Projects
Showcases Design & Dressing
Touring & Travelling Exhibitions
Exhibition Project Logistics

With clarity of communication and exceptional interpretation, we turn flashes of concepts into unforgettable and successful projects. This delivery methodology has permitted us to retain our 100% NLHF (National Lottery Heritage Funding) application record.

Our designers also deliver ground-breaking new eco-technologies (energy saving measures) that help meet the requirements of tomorrow but are provided now.

A distinction in design, total client approval and immersive audience engagement is assured.

the difference is in the detail

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SMA design provide traditional museum & gallery designs in line with client’s individual requirements and visitor audiences.

A very beautiful example of how objects should be viewed within a showcase. The invisible sense of this showcase allows a full and exciting visitor experience.

In this striking exhibition in Cyprus, a sensory mixture of colour and objects are used to great effect.

A cohesive interaction between AV and innovative technologies brings a stimulating audience interaction to the overall exhibition design.

Our museum design consultants work with the Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery awarded Heritage Lottery Funding.

SMA design has designed numerous temporary and traveling exhibitions for both the Museum of London & Museum of London Docklands.

Eric Knowles (Antique Roadshow ceramics expert) opens the Harris Museums Ring Balcony - a design competition to overcome challenges of existing displays & Victorian building conservation problems.

Simple aesthetically designed solution at the British Museum's Korean Gallery in London.

When designing for a museum or exhibition it is important to strike the right blend of content and interactivity.

National Museums of Kenya (Leakey’s Skull 1470 form part of this unique collection) - SMA design worked as museum & lighting consultants to Triad Architects of Kenya on this European funded project.

The First Lady of Azerbaijan is the client on this museum project which forms part of the Presidential Complex and will be only for visiting dignitaries once completed.

SMA’s design approach continues to deliver a 100% Heritage Lottery Funding for museum application success.

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