Salford

We have been working with the Salford Museum since 2007. First, we masterplanned a major redevelopment of this popular local museum, before being asked to lead the redesign of its galleries and interiors. The client seeks to create a museum that will reach out to a wider audience and play a major role in the regeneration of Salford. Metaphor’s work combines new thinking on the building, the design of the exhibitions, the way it relates to its audience, its role in the community and its partnership with the adjacent university. The design will create a powerful new welcome space and central atrium, including a three-storey high display of domestic and very personal artefacts displayed as object theatre with audio and light.

GEM design scheme approved

Stephen Greenberg presented the detailed design of six galleries to the Misinstry of Antiquities and Dr Zahi Hawass on Tuesday. The designs were commended and the Content Development Team are now enabled to continue structuring Egyptian chronology.

Museum of the Order of St John

The Museum reopened in November 2010 in its medieval Gatehouse in Clerkenwell, London. It tells of a thousand years of history, from the Crusades to the modern-day St John Ambulance. Our graphic design, an integral element of Metaphor’s refurbishment, is inspired by contemporary documents from the Order’s library, and is screenprinted to oak panels and etched into concrete. Two sequences of illustrations were commissioned to engage younger visitors: Christopher Wormell worked in linocuts, emulating medieval woodcuts; and Isabel Greenberg’s lively pen and ink drawings recall the London of Dr Johnson.