Client: The Field Museum, Chicago
Size: 1,400 sqm
Budget: US$10,000,000

For one of America’s oldest and most prestigious museums, MET Studio Design was the first ever outside consultancy commissioned for a project of this scope and value - the museum’s largest undertaking in a decade. The designers were tasked with transforming an unpromising space - a former basement workshop area with low ceilings and an adjacent entrance/exit - into a robust and permanent exhibition on the subject of soil for an audience of 8-80 year olds. By showing the incredible diversity of life in the soil and the importance of our connections to it, the exhibition offers a totally immersive, dynamic, entertaining and accessible experience on the most profoundly unglamorous of subjects.