An exhibition room aboard the icebreaker with a ship’s bow set in ice and glowing screens
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The Arctic, on board.

TypeInteractive exhibition
VenueA historic nuclear icebreaker
Years2014–2015
ScopeLayout · UI · 3D · simulators
The case in 60 seconds

From concept to the ice.

Concept, interfaces, 3D, simulators and the rooms on board — the whole project in one film.

Overview

A museum inside a ship.

An interactive exhibition about the Arctic, set aboard a historic nuclear icebreaker. NAOS designed the museum layout and the immersive journey through it.

The route runs through the Arctic: its wildlife, sea ice and resources, the Northern Sea Route and the icebreakers that work it. Each topic lives on a touch table with its own interface, in two languages, next to large screens, glass infographic plates and an aurora wall — across a 1000 m² exhibition zone.

For the screens we modelled a polar bear, the ships, the reactor unit and the turbines in 3D. Two simulators put visitors at the helm — a ship’s wheel and a bridge window that sails through the ice — and a photo zone lets them take a picture with the bear.

Museum designTouch interfaces3D modellingSimulatorsPhoto zone
1000 m²Exhibition zone
2014Designed and produced
2015Open to visitors
2Languages on every screen
Process

From concept to the helm.

How the exhibition was built, layer by layer.

Concept screen: a bridge view through a targeting ring over an Arctic fjord→

01Concept

Screen-by-screen concepts for every topic of the route.

Touch-table interface about the polar bear→

02Interfaces

Touch tables on wildlife, sea ice, voyages and the ship.

3D model of a polar bear→

033D

A bear, the ships, the reactor and turbines — modelled for the screens.

Bridge-window simulator sailing through an ice field

04Simulators

A ship’s wheel and a bridge window that sails through the ice.

Interfaces & 3D

Touch the Arctic.

Screens from the exhibition — interfaces and 3D by NAOS.

LIVE2015
01Arctic tableProjection on a relief map.
02Arctic globeThe polar region in 3D.
03BiodiversityFrom plankton to polar bears.
04The bearRigged and animated in 3D.
3D model of the reactor unit
05Reactor unitModelled for the ship screens.
3D model of the turbine and generator
06TurbinesThe engine room in 3D.
Simulators

At the helm, into the ice.

The voyage content for the bridge-window simulator — the ship breaks the ice while visitors steer.

Voyage · the ship in the ice
Bridge window · ice field
Bridge window · polar sunset
The exhibition
Visitors at the photo zone with the polar bear on screen
Visitors with the 3D polar bear in the photo zone
The aurora wall above a touch table
A room with panoramic Arctic screens and touch tables
A polar bear and a king crab on the big screens
Touch tables in front of Arctic landscapes
A touch table under the aurora and a glass map plate
Glass infographic plates along the wall
Aurora panorama behind a touch table
A touch table in close-up
The ship’s bow set in ice in the exhibition room
An exhibition room with screens and the bow model
Credits
ProjectIcebreaker museum · interactive Arctic exhibition
YearsDesigned and produced 2014 · opened 2015
Exhibition zone1000 m²
NAOS scopeMuseum layout · interfaces · 3D · simulators · photo zone
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