Team of artists creating narrative museum exhibitions, stage design, art installations and interior design. We give physical shapes to all the thoughts.
We are innovative artistic co-operative. We use — as the material of creation — the Story and the Space. We created biggest museum exhibitions in Poland, but we also could think smaller, if You want.
Locus Solus Gropup was founded by Michał Urban (acclaimed set designer, costume designer and painter) and Victor Soma (graphic designer, illustrator, drawer, motion & game designer)
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Krakow under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945 First narrative exhibition in Poland, located in Schindler’s factory in Krakow
Exhibition Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945, produced by Museum of Krakow, is located in the former administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory. The wartime history Oskar Schindler was brought into the limelight in 1993 by Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List. The exhibition is primarily a story about Kraków and its inhabitants, both Polish and Jewish, during World War Two. It is also a story about Nazi Germans – the occupiers who arrived here on 6 September 1939. The great history of World War Two intersects here with everyday life, and the personal dramas of individual people overlap with the tragedy which affected the whole world. The new exhibition has been created with the use of various means that go beyond the framework of traditional museum exhibitions. Locus Solus Group have given it the character of a theatrical, or cinematic narrative. The theatrical reconstructions of Kraków’s historical city space are juxtaposed with sculptural installations metaphorically embracing the city’s wartime history. The 45 exhibition rooms have been used to present Kraków’s history in an almost tangible way, enabling visitors to get a personal experience of the past, and to feel the dramatic emotions shared by the city’s wartime residents. Extensive multimedia solutions (including 30 interactive multimedia kiosks with touchscreens, 70 soundtracks, and 15 video projectors) create an attractive, contemporary, and visitor-oriented museum environment.
Krakow — from beginning, without end Narrative exhibition about history of Krakow, located in Krzysztofory palace
Project still in development. Designed by Locus Solus Group. Modern storytelling with epic flavour, innovative solutions, augmented reality, high interactivity, lots of multimedia, imaginative set design.
Elbląg Reconditus Narrative exhibition in The Museum of Archaeology and History in Elbląg
‚Elbląg reconditus’ is an innovative attempt to tell the story of Elbląg. The project and concept of the exhibition was designed by Locus Solus Group after a consultation with a group of specialists from the Museum in Elbląg. The exhibition fits the trend of narrative presentations of history. A number of artistic means was used to arrange the exhibition; their aim is to lead the visitor along the substantive route with the artefacts and information about the town’s history in the form of calendars on screens, as well as to evoke certain emotions, refer to the viewer’s connotations (connected with his/her own ideas and knowledge of history as well as their personal experience and reflections on the passing of time) through the elements of scenery. The exhibition’s important components are sound effects, remade fragments of compositions and dialogues which accompany the visitor; fragments of the poetic Book written on graphic boards and a specially arranged visiting route for small children.
Ingrowth. North and Western Lands: The Beginning Mobile, narrative and interactive exhibition in urban spaces. Project in development.
The Goths. From the Baltic Sea to Rome Exhibition in The Museum of Archaeology and History in Elbląg
“The Goths. From the Baltic Sea to Rome” is a permanent exhibition that will transfer the viewers to the times of the Roman Empire and its fall at the hands of the Goths — people who paved the way for the development of modern Europe. The exhibition is based on a unique collection of relics from Weklice — one of the best researched Wielbark culture graveyards in Poland where over 600 different graves have been discovered. From among thousands of objects discovered on the premises, only the most interesting ones have been chosen for the exhibition — including those obtained recently, never presented before. They depict resourcefulness and wealth of old dwellers of our area, prosperity of our region, they also prove that it wasn’t just outskirts of the ancient world. The main element of the display is a reconstruction of a fragment of a Wielbark road including original remains of a route around which other elements have been placed: a Roman merchant wagon or an architectural fragment of a Goth homestead. Another theme are Goth graveyards in Pomerania and Elblag High Plain regions. This sector includes a reconstruction of the grave of the so-called Goth princess. The exhibition forms an illustrated story beginning with first references about the Goths settling on the south coast of the Baltic Sea and finishing with their arrival in the Eternal City a few hundred years later.
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