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Deadmans Gold - display design
Displays, settings, automation, robots.
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deadman's gold ......is a Shipwreck and Maritime Visitors' Centre on the docks at Hunter Street, Hobart. It contains an extraordinary private collection, thirty years in the making, of fabulous items from shipwrecks and colonial Tasmania. I am very proud to have worked with collector Craig Godfrey to provide settings for his collection and to help him realise some very unusual and often macabre display ideas. take a tour
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ground floor foyerWhen visitors cross the threshold from the street, "Bob" the parrot and "Craig" the skeletal pirate wake up and perform one of several routines.
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first floor foyerVisitors climb the stairs into belowdecks on a ship of the line.
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entry corridorTo enter the gallery proper visitors must pass through the gangway of a rusty submarine.
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edwardian barMahogony with brass rails, it houses superb stone bottles.
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whaling & scrimshawA huge whale and unfortunate whaler dominate a display of maginificent carved whalebone.
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retired skipper's homeShips in bottles, ships in diaramas, in paintings...
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a slum lanewayprovides a background for a display of convict and colonial artifacts
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bath time and toys Boats, games and dolls in a rusty tramp steamer.
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cannonA deck mounted 12 pounder.
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marine archaeologyA wreck to display fabulous treasure.
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A project like this requires a huge amount of work -
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