Portable Gallery

Portable Gallery is a lightweight demountable gallery commissioned by UCL Museums & Collections. It is made of a series of modular components which enables easy installation in a host of public realm venues for UCL Museum’s outreach programme. The gallery is designed to display one museum artefact at a time and can accommodate up to three people.

The gallery is made of composite lightweight recycled paper honey-comb panels, which are laminated with a tiled mirror finish on the internal surfaces. The interior creates an illusion much larger than its physical size. The five sided mirror surfaces also allows visitors to see the museum object from all angles within the reflection of the gallery walls. The object in turn is multiplied infinitely within the space.

Set within the grid of the mirror tiles are LED lights which provide ambient lighting whilst allowing visitors to get ‘lost and immersed’ in the experience of viewing the museum object. The gallery lighting is powered by a 3-pin plug into mains power and also has its own rechargeable battery for more remote locations.

BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
et within the context of the University’s budget constraints, Mobile Studio were resourceful to obtain material sponsorship from Dufaylite which ensured the success of the project without compromising the material specification and thus final outcome.

VISIT THE GALLERY
he gallery made its first appearance at the Bloomsbury Festival 2011. It will later reappear at other venues (eg. local schools, libraries, Universities, etc.) throughout 2011/12. Please follow UCL Museums on Twitter and Facebook.