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Gardiner Museum

Ground Floor Transformation

Origin Studios provided cross-department support for the Gardiner Museum’s Ground Floor Transformation project. Scope included Gardiner Shop rebranding, main floor wayfinding and public spaces signage, visitor experience planning, artifact placement, and graphic design for the William B.G. Humphries Collection Galleries. The gallery features an innovative multivocal approach - divided into four collections - each of which features its own curatorial narrative, thematic structure, and main messages. In close collaboration with the gallery’s four curators, Origin wove their distinct voices into one cohesive, visitor experience that supported access, Indigeneity, and connectivity across multiple pathways of engagement with the collections. Meticulous artifact placement balanced conservation requirements, sightlines, and visitor flow, while allowing objects in the four zones to speak directly to each other, highlighting moments of commonality across regions, time periods, and cultural traditions of making. Groupings of objects were carefully choreographed to surface diverse voices and processes, while also encouraging close-looking and individual interpretations.

Details:

Public Spaces and Permanent Exhibition
Gardiner Museum
Toronto, Ontario
Opened 2025
Exhibit Space: 7,000 sq. ft
 

Services:

Shop Re-Brand, Wayfinding, Public Spaces Signage, Visitor Experience Planning, Artifact Placement, Graphic Design
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