Beauty in the Landscape

Lodge Park, National Trust The National Trust wanted to give visitors a sense of what this seventeenth century lodge was originally designed for and to provide them with visual references to help evoke the glory of the original landscape as they walk around the deer course and parkland remains. Based[…]

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Dramatic Interpretation

Cardiff Castle Interpretation Centre The history of Cardiff Castle is at the heart of the growth of Cardiff. Bella Janson worked with D J Willrich Ltd to produce an introductory show that sweeps visitors through 2000 years of the Castle history, from the first Roman fort to its rise as[…]

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Make Your Own Story

Roald Dahl Museum & Story Center Bremner & Orr Associates designed the award winning Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, the village where Dahl lived and wrote for 36 years. Bella worked with the designers to produce all of the audio and audio-visual elements of the exhibition.[…]

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Community News

Local Heritage Initiative The Local Heritage Initiative was a small grants programme launched in 2000 as a partnership scheme by the Countryside Agency, Heritage Lottery Fund and Nationwide Building Society to help communities bring their local heritage to life. The grants provided funds, advice and support to enable people to[…]

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Museum Treasure

Explorers Gallery, Torquay Museum A creative approach to exploration juxtaposes objects, old and new, and challenges visitors preconceptions of what exploration is. The gallery is the main showpiece of the museum and features objects and artefacts collected by explorers, travellers, scholars and enthusiasts connected with Torquay during their travels around[…]

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Personal Stories

Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Museum, Dover Castle The forebear regiments of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have fought in nearly all the major campaigns and theatres of war in which the British Army have been engaged in since 1572. Queens, Royal Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey are but a[…]

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Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre

Archive Inspiration Bremner & Orr Associates designed the award winning Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, the village where Dahl lived and wrote for 36 years. Bella worked with the designers to produce all of the audio and audio-visual elements of the exhibition. Using the museum’s archive[…]

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Gorilla Kingdom

London Zoo, ZSL To the Zoological Society of London the Gorilla Kingdom offers the best environment for large primates in captivity and the enclosure is home to a colony of western lowland gorillas. Viewing areas, trails and exhibits allow visitors to engage in the story of these endangered animals and[…]

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A Story in a Picture

Avebury, National Trust The National Trust wanted to give visitors an insight into the personality of Alexander Keiller, one of Britain’s first archaeologists and the man who surveyed Avebury and then took up the challenge of re-standing the stones in the 1920s. The archives at Avebury inspired three distinct script[…]

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Science & Natural History

Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum The Darwin Centre provides the public with an interface to the scientists and curators who work behind the scenes of the museum. It is an opportunity for people to understand the museum is not just an exhibition space but also a working scientific institute. An[…]

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