Christchurch City Council Magnetic Observatory

We worked on:

Exhibition design, interpretation, graphic design, illustration, wayfinding, signage.

We collaborated with Pearson & Associates Architects for clients Christchurch City Council on this small scale exhibition project in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens.

‘In the early 1900’s Christchurch Botanic Gardens housed an internationally significant Magnetic Observatory to support early Antarctic Exploration and to gather astronomical and geological magnetic data from the Pacific Region.

To acknowledge this we have developed a modest exhibition showcasing the historic facility and this field of science, The exhibition is held within the last historic remnant of the original Magnetic Observatory, complete with moiré treatments to elicit the pervasive magnetic effects.’

Rick Pearson - Architect