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Responsive Museums

Museums are for people, not just objects. By bringing people together, we help institutions embody, rather than just mirror, the diverse lives they represent.

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The Great Mughals: Step inside a Mughal Miniature. Flat and meandering in its construction, spaces unfold to reveal ethereal delights. Innovative engineering enables the build’s rapid transformation into the museum's next show on Marie Antoinette. By shifting from zero to near-total reuse, we set new sustainable standards. This approach tackles an intrinsically wasteful industry, helping the V&A reach net zero.

Lead: OMMX; Graphics

Kellenberger-White

Lighting: Studio ZNA

Sound: Coda to Coda

AV: Blue Elephant

Photography: Max Creasy

2/14

Marie Antoinette Style: Enter the opulent world of Versailles. This exhibition recreates the spaces Marie Antoinette inhabited and shaped, from illusory halls to her cherished garden at Le Petit Trianon. Now adopted by the V&A, our reusable system transported visitors from the Mughal Empire to the Palace of Versailles, proving sustainable design can coexist with high-spectacle, culturally specific, immersive theatre.

Lead: OMMX

Graphics: Kellenberger-White

Lighting: Studio ZNA

Sound: Coda to Coda

AV: Blue Elephant

Photography: Max Creasy

Testimonial

“We were thrilled to work with OMMX. The team worked with enthusiasm and care to ensure our ambition for sustainability was realised. They analysed and visualised potential re-use to enable informed decisions and maximise every opportunity. This has resulted in the reuse of the build which is now having a third life in our next upcoming exhibition.”

Evonne Mackezie, Head of Design and Creative, V&A Museums

3/14

Designs Of The Year: Curation and design should be a dialogue. Our flexible Wunderkammer is a vessel for evolving ideas. It can house anything from a microchip to a motorbike, allowing curators to develop their ideas freely and for as long as possible.

Lead: OMMX

Graphics: Europa

Lighting: Beam

Photography: Max Creasy

Testimonial

“The Design Museum has been staging the Designs of the Year exhibition for a decade and so one of the challenges is to keep it feeling fresh and surprising. OMMX’s exhibition design was one of the best I have seen for that show. They worked hard to maximise the use of space, creating an experience full of alcoves and niches that encouraged visitors to dwell.”

Justin McGuirk, Former Chief Curator,
The Design Museum

4/14

Röhsska: Museums often present a fixed idea of history, ignoring how communities actively interpret their own heritage. Our design for Gothenburg’s historic museum provides a sustainable kit of parts that reconfigures as these perspectives evolve. By prioritising dialogue beyond the opening, we invite communities to explore their identities and ultimately shape their museum. Unlike other permanent galleries, this one was built to change.

Lead: OMMX

Graphics: Agga Anne Mette Stage & Alex Söder

Lighting: Satu Streatfield

Photography: Johan Dehlin

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Librairie Marian Goodman: Writing is a vital part of artistic production, yet it is often seen as subservient to the main act. We designed the Librairie as a new forum where art and criticism could coexist. Inspired by the construction of a book, the folded metal interior quietly supports the writing that supports the art.

Architect: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL;
Photography: Max Creasy

Press

“Goodman, who has galleries in New York and London as well as Paris, started her career selling artists’ editions, multiples and books in 1965. The new Librairie Marian Goodman, just down the road from her spacious gallery in the Marais, represents a drawing together of her achievements in the art world.”

Apollo Magazine

6/14

Norsk Skogfinsk Museum: Designed as perfect objects, museums often face disruption when they inevitably need to modernise, extend or adapt. Working with local craft, ours branches into the landscape like a settlement. This modular form enables the museum to unfold in planned phases, allowing for targeted expansion precisely where it is needed without disrupting the building’s operation or identity.

Collaboration: OMMX
with Hakon Fanes

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In Plain Sight: Museums are rarely accessible. Working with blind, partially sighted, and neurodivergent groups over 18 months, we designed the gallery around their specific needs. Our approach was so successful that the Wellcome Collection has now adopted it as the formal design standard for all future exhibitions.

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Sara De Bondt with Luke Gould; Lighting: Satu Streatfield; Access: Dr Rafie Cecilia; Photography: Max Creasy

Press

“The exhibition is a masterclass in inclusivity, with haptic displays, clear routes and audio guides”

Apollo Magazine

8/14

The Beautiful Game: Museums belong to everyone, yet many face significant barriers to entry. We used this exhibition to research and develop a plinth that allows wheelchair users to get close to every object, with angled labels for easy reading. By proving that the smallest details can create a more inclusive museum, we established a research foundation for our future designs.

Lead: OMMX

Graphics: Shaz Madani

Lighting: Beam;

AV: Blue Elephant

Photography: Max Creasy

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Cars: Museums often struggle to appeal to children, fearing they will alienate their core adult audience. Inspired by Jacques Tati’s films, we created an urban "car-icature": a humorous, immersive world of traffic jams, highways, and oil spills. By transforming the gallery into a playful landscape, we breathed life into the car and its complex history, making it visceral and enjoyable for everyone.

Lead: OMMX

Graphics: Kellenberger-White

Film: Zuketa & Luke Halls

Sound: Coda to Coda

Lighting: DHA Designs

Acoustics: Sandy Brown

M&E: SVM Engineers

H&S: Stonewells

Photography: Max Creasy & Thomas Adank

Testimonial

“From the start OMMX demonstrated an exceptional facility for collaborative creativity. Balancing a huge range of voices and stakeholders and working with an extremely complex range of objects and content, they brought clarity and innovation to every aspect of the show. Their willingness to engage in discussion, to iterate, experiment and explore helped us work through the many challenges of working with museum objects (and budgets), all of which were approached with consistent positivity and practicality. They achieved an impactful and beautifully orchestrated visitor experience.”

Philippa Simpson, Former Director of Design, Estate and Public Programme, V&A museums

10/14

Michael Clark – Cosmic Dancer: Temporary exhibitions are often buried behind paywalls. By bringing Michael’s archive out into the lobby, we ensured his radical legacy was available to all. We placed his challenge to gender and sexuality at the museum's heart, weaving subculture and punk energy with classical grace.

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL; Lighting: DHA Designs

AV: DHD Services; Photography: Max Creasy

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Dali Duchamp: Design often resorts to loud clichés and oversimplifications as an easy entry point for the public. We created a quiet, confident backdrop to encourage people to look closer, moving the focus toward the deep personal bond between these icons and mirroring their own introspective art.

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL; Lighting: Tom Johnson;
Photography: Max Creasy

Testimonial

Professor Dawn Ades CBE, Guest Curator,
Royal Academy of Arts

“Dalí is (all too often) associated with surrealist clichés, while Duchamp is regarded as an austere minimalist. Bridging this apparent divide, creating spaces and cases which had to accommodate a wide range of types of object, from readymades hanging from the ceiling to paintings, drawings, films, manuscripts, machines and Duchamp’s Large Glass, and at the same time ensuring changes of pace and atmosphere in each room, was a tall order, brilliantly executed.”

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Terror and Wonder: Build budgets often struggle to fill exhibition halls. We overcame this by using a Gothic vocabulary of light and shadow. Rather than solid walls, we used spectral veils and timber buttresses to evoke an atmospheric, labyrinthine journey through a ruin.

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Kellenberger-White;
Lighting: DHA Designs; Photography: Max Creasy

Press

“A final word must be reserved for the design of the space, with ominous archways painted in suitably gloomy shades of blue and black, and spectral black curtains hung to delineate different display areas. You don’t need to have spent your teenage years scribbling pentagrams on your schoolbooks to enjoy this deliciously dark crypt.”

Apollo magazine

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Art and Optimism: For decades, chronic underfunding in the arts outside of London has resulted in low expectations. We countered this by embracing the "make do and mend" philosophy found in art of the period and donating our time to MIMA.

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Clerkenwell Design Week: Public parks are underfunded, requiring innovative revenue models to survive. We masterplanned the festival’s restructure, moving it from a single private venue into the public realm. By situating exhibition pavilions within local green spaces, we established a public-private partnership where commercial fees directly funded park maintenance. This win-win model provided vital financial support for local civic infrastructure.

Photography: Nick Seaton

Testimonial

William Knight, Former Director of Clerkenwell Design Week and 100% Design

“The scale and ambition of CDW 2016 is the most significant change this year. OMMX are stars of the future.”

Responsive Museums

Museums are for people, not just objects. By bringing people together, we help institutions embody, rather than just mirror, the diverse lives they represent.

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1/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Kellenberger-White;
Lighting: Studio ZNA; Sound: Coda to Coda;
AV: Blue Elephant; Photography: Max Creasy

2/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Kellenberger-White;
Lighting: Studio ZNA; Sound: Coda to Coda; AV: Blue Elephant; Photography: Max Creasy

“We were thrilled to work with OMMX. The team worked with enthusiasm and care to ensure our ambition for sustainability was realised. They analysed and visualised potential re-use to enable informed decisions and maximise every opportunity. This has resulted in the reuse of the build which is now having a third life in our next upcoming exhibition.”

Evonne Mackezie, Head of Design and Creative, V&A Museums

3/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Europa; Lighting: Beam;
Photography: Max Creasy

“The Design Museum has been staging the Designs of the Year exhibition for a decade and so one of the challenges is to keep it feeling fresh and surprising. OMMX’s exhibition design was one of the best I have seen for that show. They worked hard to maximise the use of space, creating an experience full of alcoves and niches that encouraged visitors to dwell.”

Justin McGuirk, Former Chief Curator,
The Design Museum

4/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Agga Anne Mette Stage & Alex Söder; Lighting: Satu Streatfield; Photography: Johan Dehlin

5/14

Architect: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL;
Photography: Max Creasy

“Goodman, who has galleries in New York and London as well as Paris, started her career selling artists’ editions, multiples and books in 1965. The new Librairie Marian Goodman, just down the road from her spacious gallery in the Marais, represents a drawing together of her achievements in the art world.”

Apollo Magazine

6/14

Collaboration: OMMX with Hakon Fanes

7/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Sara De Bondt with Luke Gould; Lighting: Satu Streatfield; Access: Dr Rafie Cecilia; Photography: Max Creasy

Apollo Magazine

“The exhibition is a masterclass in inclusivity, with haptic displays, clear routes and audio guides”

8/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Shaz Madani; Lighting: Beam;

AV: Blue Elephant; Photography: Max Creasy

9/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Kellenberger-White; Film: Zuketa & Luke Halls; Sound: Coda to Coda; Lighting: DHA Designs; Acoustics: Sandy Brown; M&E: SVM Engineers; H&S: Stonewells; Photography: Max Creasy & Thomas Adank

“From the start OMMX demonstrated an exceptional facility for collaborative creativity. Balancing a huge range of voices and stakeholders and working with an extremely complex range of objects and content, they brought clarity and innovation to every aspect of the show. Their willingness to engage in discussion, to iterate, experiment and explore helped us work through the many challenges of working with museum objects (and budgets), all of which were approached with consistent positivity and practicality. They achieved an impactful and beautifully orchestrated visitor experience.”

Philippa Simpson, Former Director of Design, Estate and Public Programme, V&A museums

10/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL; Lighting: DHA Designs

AV: DHD Services; Photography: Max Creasy

11/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: APFEL; Lighting: Tom Johnson;
Photography: Max Creasy

“Dalí is (all too often) associated with surrealist clichés, while Duchamp is regarded as an austere minimalist. Bridging this apparent divide, creating spaces and cases which had to accommodate a wide range of types of object, from readymades hanging from the ceiling to paintings, drawings, films, manuscripts, machines and Duchamp’s Large Glass, and at the same time ensuring changes of pace and atmosphere in each room, was a tall order, brilliantly executed.”

Professor Dawn Ades CBE, Guest Curator,
Royal Academy of Arts

12/14

Lead: OMMX; Graphics: Kellenberger-White;
Lighting: DHA Designs; Photography: Max Creasy

“A final word must be reserved for the design of the space, with ominous archways painted in suitably gloomy shades of blue and black, and spectral black curtains hung to delineate different display areas. You don’t need to have spent your teenage years scribbling pentagrams on your schoolbooks to enjoy this deliciously dark crypt.”

Apollo magazine

13/14

14/14

Photography: Nick Seaton

“The scale and ambition of CDW 2016 is the most significant change this year. OMMX are stars of the future.”

William Knight, Former Director of Clerkenwell Design Week and 100% Design