Museum Design & Production
Over the past few years we have designed and produced Books, Leaflets, Regimental Histories, Display Panels, Videos and Touch-screen Interactive Presentations for a wide variety of Museums.
For Ipswich Museum's 'Ipswich at War' exhibition we designed and built a touch-screen interactive based on 'Air Raids on Ipswich'. Utilising original Air Raid Wardens' Reports of every air raid suffered by Ipswich, we built a comprehensive interactive presentation which enabled the user to search by time and place, area and read the whole raid report or see how many casualties occurred in any particular raid. All known photographs of each raid were also included.
The Suffolk Regiment's new Gallery within Moyses Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds needed a short video to run as visitors entered the Gallery. It gives them a very simple introduction to the 274 years of the Regiment's history. It was felt important to give the feeling that the 'Suffolks' were a real 'family' regiment. To this end we designed and produced "Catchpole". This featured many generations of Private Catchpole from 1759 through many different campaigns and wars until 1959 where we see him sound asleep when he is meant to be packing boxes ready for the regiment's amalgamation with The Royal Norfolk Regiment. The video was transferred to DVD and has now been running continuously with no hiccups whatsoever for well over five years.
Small 250mm x 250mm glossy, full colour Regimental Histories have been produced for The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, The Cambridgeshire Regiment, The Suffolk Regiment and, most recently, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Museum Appeal Leaflets for The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and The Suffolk Regiment have also proved very successful for fund-raising purposes.
Khaki Devil were involved in the design and production of a glossy 'coffee table' book for the Suffolk Regiment: 'The Old Dozen - A Century of Photographs'. The book features 400 photographs of the regiment from 1859 to 1959 and the limited edition run of 1,000 numbered copies proved extremely popular.
A touch-screen interactive based on L/Cpl Wilf Wright of the Staffordshire Regiment in The Great War has also been a great success. Produced many years ago, it is still running every day at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum at Lichfield with no sign of tiring yet!
A similar touch-screen presentation was made for The Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Museum in Aberdeen (produced in conjunction with the design department at The National Army Museum).
One of our most recent commissions was the complete revamp of The Suffolk Regiment Museum at Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds. This wonderful old museum had remained largely untouched since the mid-1960s and we were given a completely free hand to redisplay all the items using the existing cases. This was a major five week undertaking and virtually every item in the museum was removed, cleaned and redisplayed in its historical context. The new layout is much brighter and more open, but has lost none of it's original 'Granny's Attic' charm. One major feature was the new display of all the museum's weapons collection (top). Purpose-built brackets were built by us for all the rifles, muskets and sub-machine guns which enabled them to be displayed properly for the first time. It's a great shame that more Regimental Museums cannot be displayed in this way.
Display Panels, in many shapes and sizes, have been produced for a number of museums and exhibitions.
Some of the museums Khaki Devil has supplied design to include:
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Museum
The Cambridgeshire Regiment Collection
The Gordon Highlanders' Museum
Ipswich Museum - 'Ipswich at War' Exhibition
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum
The Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Museum
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
The Staffordshire Regiment Museum
