OFFSHORE EXPERIENCE
Maritime Museum
Find out what it’s like on a drilling platform. In the interactive ‘Offshore Experience’ in the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam, you’ll experience an impressive world of steel and stamina and see how the pioneers of the Dutch offshore industry execute spectacular projects all over the world, in and at the bottom of the sea.
- Location
- Rotterdam (NL)
- Client
- Maritime Museum
- Year
- 2016
By exploring the exhibition’s interactive elements and personal stories of industry professionals, visitors gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, triumphs, and significance of the offshore industry in our modern energy landscape.
The journey begins with a safety demonstration
You get a helmet and a yellow safety vest – this way you become part of the story. Then you step onto a gigantic blue and yellow drilling platform that is surrounded by the sea. Everything around you seems to be moving. An elevator takes you to the bottom of the sea. It’s dead quiet, dark and blue. You see divers at work, robots laying pipes. Fish, a squid, and a huge jellyfish swim past you.
Once back ashore, you can vote for the most sustainable idea for energy production at sea. Each year different experts and the students of a Rotterdam school come up with new ideas.
A career in the offshore industry
Try your hand at the interactive exhibits to see if you’re suited for a career in the offshore industry. Can you land a helicopter on a drilling rig? Or cooperate effectively under pressure? How about trying to manipulate the world oil price by drilling more or less oil. Watch and listen to the personal stories of people who work in the offshore industry. For example you’ll meet a welder, a captain and a pilot.
A complex project
Within a short space of time, we were able to create this exhibition with an ambitious and specialist team. The project was a success thanks to the great perseverance of the client, the lighting-, sound- and media designers, to the many sponsors and to the main contractor Bruns. The result is an experience that is as compelling as the offshore itself
Awards
Bank Giro Loterij Museum Award 2018
- Winner
Design Week Award 2017
- Winner
World Interior News Award 2017
- Nominated
Museums+Heritage Awards 2017
- International - nominated
Children in Museums Award 2017
- Nominated
European Design Awards 2017
- Miscellaneous Exhibition design — Bronze
Children in Museums Award 2017
- Nominated
