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Museum redevelopment designers

Smith and Jones are museum redevelopment designers. We work across the country, helping curators, councils, trustees and communities to redevelop their museums for a better, more engaging visitor experience. At the start of a project we research, plan and organise content, digest objects and collections, write interpretive frameworks and consider the visitor experience. This then… Read more »

Museum gallery designers

Smith and Jones are museum gallery designers getting involved in all aspects of a modern museum gallery design process. We help museums refresh and rejuvenate their gallery displays for a more modern, engaging concept. To enable us to design a museum gallery, we submerge ourselves in a museums collection and potential themes and stories, often… Read more »

Museum concept and visioning

Smith and Jones help museums across the country, right at the start of their redevelopment journey. We conduct options appraisal studies and museum visioning exercises, often with other consultants, such as business advisers and architects. Often the museums we work with are owned by local councils or trusts who want to ensure future sustainability for… Read more »

Museum display specialists

Smith and Jones are museum display specialists, providing a friendly and approachable service to museums up and down the country. We regularly work with museums that want to make adjustments to their existing museums, rather than a major overhaul. This might be in the form of improved display cases, creating object layouts and mount making… Read more »

Visitor centre designers

Smith and Jones are visitor centre designers working with organisations, companies and councils across the UK to conceive, design, develop and install the most inspirational visitor centre experiences. Our process starts with understanding you and your unique story, with the development of an interpretive framework which sets out the concept long before any design work… Read more »

Nature centre designers

Smith and Jones are nature centre designers, having designed and manufactured visitor centre concepts in some of the UK’s most stunning landscapes. We work with councils, architects and organisations such as the Wilflowl and Wetlands Trust to develop strong concepts that create a fantastic visitor experience and fit in with the surrounding landscapes and environment…. Read more »

Exhibition design and build

Smith and Jones work either work on a design and project management basis, or a full exhibition design and build service dependent on the scale of our museum and visitor centre projects. We work with the best fit-out contractors and audio visual suppliers in the country to manufacture and install our designs to the highest… Read more »

Exhibition and display designers

Smith and Jones are exhibition and display designers working with a diverse range of people including companies, universities and organisations. Every project has its own unique concept, but our approach is often the same. A clear understanding of the purpose of a project, considering the target audience, digesting and reviewing potential content and themes and… Read more »

Interpretation planners

Smith and Jones are interpretive signage designers with experience of working in a wide range of environments, from country parks and natural landscape to urban and industrial settings. We produce interpretive plans of whole sites and attractions, ensuring consideration is given to the visitor experience and interpretive themes and messages are presented in the correct… Read more »

Country park interpretation

Smith and Jones are interpretation planners and exhibition designers and are used to working in a historic country park setting. Our country park interpretation work often spans internal and external spaces, from visitor centres or exhibition and display to external interpretive signage and trails. Our work respects the surrounding environment and landscape, and works with… Read more »

Interpretive signage designers

Smith and Jones are interpretive signage designers with experience of working in a wide range of environments, from country parks and natural landscape to urban and industrial settings. We produce interpretive plans of whole sites and attractions, ensuring consideration is given to the visitor experience and interpretive themes and messages are presented in the correct… Read more »

Heritage interpretation designers

Smith and Jones are heritage interpretive designers with a unique approach to bringing to life the unique story of a heritage site or attraction. The sorts of heritage attractions we might work at are diverse and wide ranging including windmills, guildhalls, roman ruins, ligththouses, industrial sites, country parks, castles and churches. Working as heritage interpretive… Read more »