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INTERIORS AWARDS

Palais Herberstein, a baroque-style beauty in Graz, Austria, is an apt setting for
the History Museum and its recently unveiled duo of permanent exhibitions courtesy
of the local multidisciplinary architecture firm INNOCAD. Celebrating the vast cultural
legacy of Austria's Styria region was vital to INNOCAD co-founder Martin Lesjak-
the 2015 Contract Designer of the Year-yet so was looking forward, redefining
how patrons move through a museum and engage with its contents.
"We are not an art or design museum, we are a history museum, and it seems
to me that history museums-perhaps in the German-speaking countries in particular-
have remained largely unchanged in appearance since the 1980s," says Bettina
Hapsburg-Lothringen, head of the museum's cultural history department as well
as several other Styria institutions comprising the Universalmuseum Joanneum
consortium. "So for me, as a museum professional, it was essential to try something
different, surprising, fresh, up-to-date. INNOCAD's approach to historic sites
and how they use materials in unusual ways was important to me."
INNOCAD's knack for the unconventional is first revealed at the revamped
entrance, where an iron "carpet" graces the stone floor, amplified by a neon lighting
installation from Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz. From here, visitors are organically
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directed to the second-floor exhibitions that expand around a central atrium.
Interactive Schaudepot encompasses both the Cultural History Collection
and the film, video, and photography-packed Multimedia Collection, featuring 2,000
objects-from furniture to musical instruments to tableware-culled from the
museum's stash of some 35,000 artifacts spanning from the Middle Ages to present
day. Although they are all displayed in a mere 5,231-square-foot space, it doesn't feel
cramped or chaotic because INNOCAD successfully married the disparate objects
of myriad materials, sizes, and color through cohesive industrial cable trays, fine rope
nets, and an infinite metal wall loop. Artificial light passes through the meshed surface,
casting shadows against the ceiling and walls, and as patrons navigate the space,
it is more reminiscent of a pared-down warehouse than a traditional museum.
"We didn't want to just curate ten pieces," Lesjak says. "The museum has
an amazing collection so we had this idea of showing as much of what was in storage
as possible. We wanted to create an inspiring space that relates not so much
to a museum, but a depot." Flexible materials to showcase items like sacred church
relics and "unusual, everyday items that were found in rich people's attics,"
he adds, were key.
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