Mather & Co starts work on New Olympic Museum
Museum and visitor attraction design consultancy Mather & Co has started 2014 on a high note, with its design for the new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne coming to fruition with the opening of the museum.
The contract, awarded to Mather & Co in 2011, has seen the practice design the museum's three floors of permanent exhibition galleries. Working with the Olympic Museum team, Mather & Co developed the narrative and themes and 3D designs of all the museum spaces.
'It has been a truly positive collaborative process between our design studio and the IOC team to create this world-class attraction,' said Chris Mather, director of Mather & Co. 'Projects like this one don't come along every week: to work on such a world-class museum combining the skills and expertise from a number of EU countries is very exciting.'
The floors of the permanent exhibition areas are more than 3,000 sq m. Two educational zones of almost 150 sq m open in April. The exhibitions are designed to highlight aspects of Olympic culture and its relationship with the world, while the museum as a whole offers an insight into the complex and fascinating story of the athletes, champions, artists, architects, and volunteers.
