Inspiration for your gallery or museum

Movable art gallery walls offer endless possibilities for creating dynamic and engaging museum experiences. Here are some fun and creative ideas:

Movable art gallery walls offer endless possibilities for creating dynamic and engaging museum experiences. Here are some fun and creative ideas:

1. Thematic Rotations: Design movable walls that can easily be rearranged to accommodate changing themes or eras. This allows the museum to showcase different collections without the need for a complete overhaul of the exhibit space. If you plan on moving exhibit walls frequently and have a staff to do so, we suggest our modular walls. However, if your team and manpower is limited, our walls on casters are much easier for individuals to move. In fact, individual walls require only one person to move.
2. Interactive Murals: Create large interactive murals that visitors can help complete. Provide them with art supplies or digital tools to contribute their own artistic touch to a collaborative masterpiece. Or, have patrons sign their names, draw on your walls or leave comments.
3. Time Traveling Pathways: Arrange movable walls in a winding pathway that takes visitors through different time periods. Each section could feature art and artifacts from a specific era, creating a sense of chronological progression.
4. Sensory Immersion: Design movable walls that incorporate sensory elements like lighting, soundscapes, and even scents. This immersive experience can transport visitors to the world depicted in the art.
5. Artistic Mazes: Develop a maze-like structure using movable walls, with art pieces strategically placed throughout. Visitors can navigate the maze, discovering different artworks at every turn.
6. Storytelling Cubes: Arrange movable walls with artwork on each side that together tell a larger narrative, such as in our cross configuration (seen on this page). Visitors can view each side to reveal different parts of the story.
7. Collaborative Art Stations: Set up interactive stations where visitors can create their own art pieces inspired by the exhibited works. These creations can then become part of the evolving exhibit.
8. Multimedia Fusion: Combine traditional art with digital projections on movable walls. This fusion of mediums can create captivating and immersive displays.
9. Art Hunt Adventures: Develop a treasure hunt-style experience where visitors follow clues to find hidden artworks that are revealed by rearranging the movable walls.
10. Personalized Exhibits: Provide visitors with the opportunity to curate their mini-exhibits by choosing artworks and arranging the rolling movable walls to their liking.
11. Artistic Games: Integrate game elements, such as puzzles or quizzes, into the movable walls to engage visitors while they explore the art.

Remember that safety and ease of use are crucial when implementing any movable exhibit design. These ideas aim to enhance visitor engagement, learning, and enjoyment by leveraging the versatility of movable art gallery walls. For walls that move easily, we suggest unlocking the casters of our rolling movable walls. Walls which are desgined to remain in place work best either by locking all casters of rolling walls, or using our classic style in an immovable configuration.

Museum Exhibit Design Idea #1 – Get creative with space!

If you’re struggling with a creative approach for your next exhibit, start with your floor plan to get inspired. If you’re bored with the same old space, chances are your patrons are too.

Getting stuck with the same old floor plan can pose some challenges when it comes to breathing new life into exhibits. Pareti’s mobile exhibit walls offer the complete flexibility to move things around and freshen up your exhibit area, or turn empty rooms into exhibit spaces.

Because they create a sense of discovery, new floor plans can help you build anticipation and drama into your exhibit. Hallways, niches and small areas can make people get into a type of  ‘discovery mode’ immediately, which is exactly what you want in an exhibit – to build excitement!

The ability to change exhibit floor plans on the fly provides an exciting, clean slate for creative design.  Rearranging at will allows curators and exhibit designers to keep exhibit spaces fresh for patrons. This way patrons not only get to enjoy the exhibit, but also get to experience the unexpected – an entirely new space!

Museum Exhibit Design Idea #2 – Don’t be afraid to use color

Letting the walls sink to the background used to be the museum-thing-to-do. That’s before we had colorful audio visual distractions at our fingertips, and before could see the world (and any collection) on our phones. While the old way was stuffy, still reverence has its place in some museums – however, most museums have to be more than what they were before – more engaging, more approachable, more relatable. And that means color.

The unsung, common wall is now making an appearance of its own, and adding some much-needed flair. Even traveling exhibits featuring larger collections are requesting to be hung on brightly painted walls, with specific, coordinating color palettes. It works, without overpowering the artwork.

So why not take matters into your own hands with exhibits? Painting your temporary walls can provide inspiration for museum exhibit design ideas, and give you an immediate environment change. Color and a new environment will impress patrons the moment they walk into the exhibit. Visitors are drawn into an environment, rather than just passively viewing. Pareti’s mobile walls can be painted over and over, just like real walls. So you can radically change things up after each exhibit, or simply touch up for next time.

Using well thought-out complimentary colors, such as this chartreuse green combined with purple hues and a splash of orange, creates a wonderful composition as a display area. By color and composition of the items exhibited, the eye zig-zags around, providing more sensory entertainment than content alone.

Museum Exhibit Design Idea #3 – Getting graphic – wall and floor graphics

As most exhibit designers know, you can do some pretty cool things with vinyl. Vinyl wraps, first surface vinyl and floor graphics are all fabulous possibilities for adding drama and information to your exhibit. But have you ever considered styrene?

Full sheet size printed styrene offers all of the cool large format printing vinyl offers, but for less. You also save with styrene because installation can be DIY, saving hundreds of dollars or more on adhesive vinyl installations. It’s easy to clean, and can be hung up using banner tape (or carpet tape in a pinch). Styrene can also be die cut to shapes to help you create some cool standouts. Contact us at sales@paretimobilewalls.com if you’re interested in quotes for styrene printing.

Museum Exhibit Design Idea #4 Use Cut-outs and 3D features to make ordinary graphics SING!

Make your exhibit sing just like Ella Fitzgerald’s with a huge portrait or letters placed above your display. Using rugged Gatorboard, we can design, illustrate and print large graphics and create a structure behind it to keep it sturdy and locked into our top channel. We can also use your artwork.

Pareti Mobile Walls provides cut letterforms and graphics, and can help you with design as well. Contact us for information about exhibit design, vinyl wraps, foam or MDF (wood) cut letters and graphics to help add some visual interest to your exhibits.

We constantly collect museum exhibit design ideas – if you have a great example feel free to share it by emailing us at sales@ paretimobilewalls.com.