Museum Projects

Date Added: Fri 24 February 2012

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Service Graphics’ involvement in two of Scotland’s largest museum projects to date, the Riverside Museum in Glasgow and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, further reinforces our reputation as the graphics supplier of choice to the UK’s most prestigious museums and visitor attractions.

Selected by Glasgow City Council, our Glasgow site produced and installed display graphics for the city’s Riverside Museum within just seven months to adhere to the tight timeframe set by the pre-determined public opening date. Our Durst Lambda printer was used to produce Lambda wrapped interpretive panels which were matt laminated and wrapped onto 6mm MDF. The graphics for display cases were printed on the Mimaki JV5 Series inkjet printer printed onto conservation grade self-adhesive vinyl. The Riverside Museum was designed by internationally renowned architect, Zaha Hadid, and houses more than 3,000 exhibits in over 150 interactive displays to showcase the cities transport, ship building and engineering heritage. It has attracted a record number of visitors averaging almost 10,000 visitors per day since opening on 21st June.

We were also selected by Becks Interiors Ltd to work for the first time together on the redevelopment of the National Museum of Scotland. The volume of work represented a yearlong project for Service Graphics with the sheer scale of production spanning both our Glasgow and Chessington sites. The ability to draw upon the resources of our Chessington super-site proved beneficial eliminating the need for an expensive screen-printing process. The site’s Inca Spyder 320 was used to print Dibond panels, acrylic panels and etched vinyl, enabling them to print the white ink required on some of the substrates. Other graphics produced included duraclear prints, digitally printed wallpaper, lightbox duratrans, Lambda printed object labels mounted to Foamex, large format banners and printed floor vinyl. Refurbished at a cost of £47.4m, the National Museum of Scotland features over 8,000 objects of which 80% are on show for the first time. The Window on the World is the largest museum installation in the UK. Visitor numbers to date have exceeded all expectations with 120,000 in the opening week and half a million in just over five weeks.

Other museum projects we have been involved with include the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire, Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow’s ‘AC/DC: Scotland’s Family Jewels’ exhibition, the ‘Magic Worlds’ exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, ‘Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin at the Imperial War Museum in London and ‘Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam’ at The British Museum.

“Following a competitive pitch, we selected Service Graphics to produce and install all display graphics for the redevelopment. Our confidence in their ability to cost effectively manage a project of this scale and timeframe across such wide-ranging formats and substrates was paramount to this decision. We are delighted with the result and the subsequent response from the general public.”

Gavin Ridley - Beck Interiors Ltd