Royal Tyrrell Museum: Learning Lounge
Overview
The Hands-On Learning Lounge is a social space and a discovery gallery giving visitors a chance to touch and experience its charismatic star, a life-sized bronze cast of Albertosaurus, a gateway to the world of dinosaurs.
Details
- Client
- Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Project
- Hands-On Learning Lounge
- Size
- 2,000 sq. ft.
- Scope
- Exhibit Design
- Location
- Year Completed
- 2019
- Budget
- $1,500,000
The
Result
The goal for this gallery was to create a space that is entirely unique to the Royal Tyrrell and ideally suited to the client’s vision. The Lounge is the only gallery in the Museum where visitors learn about the Albertosaurus, the Museum’s signature specimen. The Learning Lounge is also fully accessible and family-friendly, appealing to all ages. It is a place to rest, eat and explore.
As a powerful asset in stakeholder communications and fundraising/development, R&P was committed to seeing the successful project to completion. The intensive development process included workshops and drop-ins with Museum executives and the board of directors, corporate sponsors, Museum curatorial, programming and education staff, volunteers, Museum members/visitors, and external advisory groups to consult on such matters as accessibility.