Zoom Exhibitions

The ZOOM Children’s Museum, located in the MuseumsQuartier, encourages children to interact with or “zoom in on” the exhibits, using all their senses in order to learn in a creative way.

Asked to design an exhibition demonstrating the correlation between math and music, entitled “Klingende Zahlen”, Veech x Veech devised a flexible series of rhomboid, double-height, modular elements that could be used multiple times across three different exhibitions, instead of proposing a one-time solution.

The modular system occupied the 48-metre long museum space. Children could explore the exhibition through three zones on the ground floor, as well as through a second level that was accessible at one end via a 25-metre ramp and at the other end via stairs and a 10-metre-long slide.

The designers’ primary aim was to play with circulation routes, challenging the traditional linear path often used in exhibition-making by creating a much richer, multi-layered environment. Inside the modules on the ground level were various pockets of space in which interactive installations awaited discovery.

The design was subsequently re-assembled in different configurations and used for two further exhibitions, one about Europe and one devoted to archaeology.