The five biggest exhibition design stories of 2020
In a year where many cultural institutions were closed, exhibition designers had to adapt and often bring the museum experience into our own homes.
December 18, 2020
12:58 pm
Non-Pavilion, a VR installation at the V&A for last year’s London Design Festival
How would the badly-hit exhibition sector return after the first lockdown? The Design Museum’s headline exhibition, Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, had been set up before lockdown and its organisers revealed to Design Week how it had been adjusted accordingly. As well as mandatory masks and hand sanitiser stations, bike capacity had been doubled so that people would not have to take public transport and the capacity was halved (the museum had to open late to cover a shortfall in ticket sales).