Colgate Geology Museum
Robert M. Linsley Geology Museum, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y
Opened April 2009
Colgate University challenged TEA to work with its existing conceptual design to refine and implement this project, keeping its major features but adjusting the final design to bring the exhibition back into the budget parameters. TEA worked with Colgate’s geology department to prioritize the elements in the exhibition, reworking the approach to cases, platforms, and other viewing areas to save funds but to retain accessibility to the collection for scholars, students, and community members. The new design incorporates cases that use the existing glass wall of the museum as the back of exhibition cases, adds viewing platforms and low-tech interactives such as a fossil ID station and a revolving geologic timeline, and developing an audio-visual program that incorporates an original dinosaur egg with video illustrations of the dinosaur on the nest and the animal that would have hatched from the egg. In addition to the design, TEA produced the large artifact mounts, all graphics, the cases, interactives, and specified two different lighting systems.
