National Maritime museum. Nelson & napoleon exhibition
Challenge: The National Maritime Museum was set up to commemorate Britain’s long naval history. The Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar was approaching. And a major exhibition was planned to commemorate it. But how do you make an ancient sea battle, conducted by long-dead military figures, feel relevant to contemporary audiences - and to foreign visitors with no stake in British history.
Solution: The Battle of Trafalgar was about the potential invasion of one nation by a large, dominant neighbor. We foregrounded the voices of those figures at that moment. And showed how, they became metonyms for an ancient human struggle. Of invasion and resistance. Self-determination or domination. A desire for glory versus a struggle to survive. Something every human being can relate to.
