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Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
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CHILDREN’S GALLERY
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Alberta
Naturally
Toddler
Area
Museums
101
Chautauqua
Alberta’s Maker
Entry
Experience
Entrance
Welcome to
the Children’s
Gallery
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REVISE & RESUBMIT
SIGNATURE / DATE
Project
- Design a new Children's Gallery for
the Royal Alberta Museum.
The Children's Gallery is RAM's first
gallery to be designed with their younger
visitors in mind. Focusing on 0-8 year-
old's, and their parents and caregviers, we
developped a stimulating environment
to house a place of great explorarion and
interactivity.
Project Team: JoAnn Secor (Principal,
Director of Museum Services), Scott W.
Briggs AIA (Senior Associate, Museum
Services, Project Manager), Roy Lorieo
(Exhibit Designer)
Project Duration: 12 months (design), 6
months (fabrication and installation), to
open Fall 2017.

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CITIZENSHIP
SELF-REFLEC
TION
E
M
PATHY
Alberta’s Built
Environment and
Infrastructure
Alberta’s Natural
Environment and Natural
Phenomena
Alberta’s People,
Culture and Icons
Activities
Museology
Arts &
Creativity
How Things
Work
Experience Criteria
Overarching themes:
- Inspire young Albertans to be active,
participatory citizens in their town or
community
- Provide opportunities for young
visitors to develop a sense of
empathy
- Encourage visitors to reflect on
their experience, using a variety of
methods to document their visit

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CHILDREN’S GALLERY
ROYAL
ALBERT
MUSEUM11/14/2014
Alberta’s Built
Environment and
Infrastructure
Alberta’s Natural Environment and
Natural Phenomena
Alberta’s People, Culture
and Icons
Concept DiagraExperience Criteria
Main Topics:
• Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons
• Alberta’s Natural Environment and
Natural Phenomena
• Alberta’s Built Environment and
Infrastructure
We chose to weave the three topics
together, across the gallery rather than
have separate stations for each topic. This
concept diagram was an initial study on
how the three topics could work together
to build an integrated story.

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Look and Feel
The client is inspired by the Reggio Emelia teaching method. We found the bright and
open environments of the typical Reggio classroom to be a good inspiration. They
are not afraid of a little chaos in the name of discuovery. The Reggio philosophy uses
many sortable loose parts and pieces in it stheory. We looked to design a space that
encoraged discovery and innovation.

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Look and Feel
For this gallery, we did not want to make any fake
experiences. If something could not be brought into the
gallery, then it would be represented in a stylsitic manner.
We chose to use natural materials with exposed grain and
texture, instead of fiberglas and plastic.

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Gallery Overview
- 5920 sq ft
The gallery is made up of two rooms. The entrance is a double-height space, while the
rear area is dropped down to

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Entrance
As you enter the Children's Gallery, you are given a chance to collect yourself. There is
a large map, to explain how the gallery relates to the province as a while. There is also
a display case which represents the gallery's manifesto on play and learning.

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Alberta Naturally
The Alberta Naturally Section is modelled after the natural and man-made
aspects of Alberta. The main room of the gallery is dominated by two
mountain ranges. Patterend after the Canadian Rockies. Some of the other
highlights are a 3-story tall grain elevator, a forest and the Dig Pit area.

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Wind Wall
Once the visitor travels through the mountains and up the ramp, she will arrive at the
controls for the Wind Wall. Inspired by installation artist Ned Kahn, this interactive
shows wind currents as they flow across a field of wind chimes.
Right: an existing wind current installation.

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Northern Lights
At the top of the ramp, visitors will also encounter an interactive that
explains how the aurora borrealis works. Dials and sliders will change the
lighting effects of an LED curtain to simulate the northern lights.

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Forest Explorers
In the forest, visitors will find animal tracks, sounds and smells. All clues to the
different animals that can be found in Alberta's forests. There is also a Forest sounds
symphony wall that will allow visitors to compose there own sounds of the forest.

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Dig Pit
This area will sometimes house an archeological interactive. There will be
tools for excavating and measuring, whatever visitors uncover. A stratigraphy
display in The surrounding walls will hold artifacts that scientists have
uncovered from local digs.

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Toddler Area
Knowing there are special needs for the youngest visiors (0 to 3-years-old)
we designed an area just for them. Before entering, you will leave your shoes
in a low-wall with historical artifacts that have been used in exploration.
Above the Toddler Area is a constellation themed mobile that will tell the
story of what native peoples see when they look at the stars.

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Museums 101
A gallery within a gallery, Museums 101 will be hold temporary exhibits with
content culled from the local community and curated by the museum staff.
The first exhibit will be how the new museum was built.

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Chautauqua
A Chautauqua was a turn of the 20th centruy community event. Like circus of
religious revival, a temporary structure would be setup to house presentations on
new technologies and ideas.

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Chautauqua
This Chautauqua will be a programming space for story time ...

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Chautauqua
... or party time!

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Alberta's Makers
The maker space will be a place to build, take apart, and make some thing
new again and again. Hopefully young visitors will return to the Children's
Gallery every few weeks to foster a particapitory community of empathetic
young people who reflect on their experiences at the museum and out in the
world.

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