client: the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen
completed: 1999
“Mirror of the World” is the Danish National Museum’s Ethnographic jubilee exhibition, which draws on major collections and donations from 1650 to 2000. Experimenting with the calibration of the balance between presentation and exhibit, the exhibition offers a total spatial experience. A capacious and transparent construction of timber, steel and glass provides a systematically organized and vibrant showcase for some 1,200 items, displayed behind the glass in a variety of layers and combinations.
client: Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg, Sweden
completed: 2004
In association with the Museum of World Cultures in Göteborg, schmidt hammer lassen designed the exhibition “Sister of Dreams”, which centres on the lives of twelve Indian tribes living along the Orinoco River in Venezuela. The exhibition is devised as an abstracted “pixelled” evocation of the Venezuelan landscape with its forests, rivers and mountains, structured as a three-dimensional labyrinth to be experienced by visitors across the entire spectrum of the senses.
client: the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen
completed: 2008
schmidt hammer lassen was appointed exhibition designer for the reorganization of the museum’s permanent display of its Prehistory Collection. In its new guise, this flagship collection will present a fresh face to the world, reflecting the latest thinking on interactivity between materials and users, multimedia applications and dynamic presentation at several levels. The project has reached the stage where the feasibility study has been approved, and detailed project planning will follow. In 2008, the National museum will be able to open its doors to a ‘new’ Prehistory Collection.
client: LEGO
completed: 2005
LEGO Systems turned to schmidt hammer lassen design in 2006. They needed a designer and interior architect for their new visitors center - LEGO collections 2010-1032. The new center was to be relocated from its partly hidden location in the basement of Hotel Legoland to a prominent address in the center of Billund. To be precise, it was to move into the building where LEGO started, a building which for a great many yeas also formed a part of the LEGO factory. As the name of the exhibition implies, our concept turned into an exhibition where the visitor is brought back in time, through the history and evolution of LEGO - from the future to the past, accompanied by pictures, photos, sound, stories, film cut and of course exhibited LEGO products.
client: DAL
completed: 1993
Represented the National Confederation of Danish Architects (DAL) at the building exhibition ‘Billion kroner Building’ in the Bella Centre, Copenhagen.
client: The Aarhus Art Society of 1847
exhibition year: 2000
The Aarhus Art Building is showcasing three - one in each of its trio of exhibition rooms - of schmidt hammer lassen architects most celebrated projects: the Royal Library in Copenhagen, the Arts and Community Centre in Nuuk, Greenland, and the new art museum in Aarhus. The exhibition focuses in on the spaces - foyer, atrium and passageway - that are architecturally defined by the large spaces outside and the smaller spaces within, where books are read, performances staged and paintings hung.