Pirates! Predators of the Sea! Traveling Exhibit
ThemeWorks provided comprehensive fabrication services for this traveling exhibit that examines the history and colorful personalities of Piracy.
Our work included building all walls, dioramas, interactives, pirate figures, and scenic fabrication. All skeletal pirate figures were sculpted with an internal steel armature to ensure durability with over two million anticipated exhibit guests. The Wapping Tide exhibit features carved stonework and a hanging gibbet cage photo opportunity, which our blacksmith constructed and welded by hand. The partial ship deck of a pirate sloop was hand-crafted to appear as hand-hewn oak, including the knees, planks, beams, ribbing, and cannon ports. The ship deck features replica 4-pounder cast-iron cannons with hand-crafted wood carriages, tools and ordinance, displays of authentic medical tools and weaponry, living quarters and period lanterns. Exhibit interactives include a hidden treasure stash, quizzes with dagger handles, hard tack interactive with weevils, crate crawl-through with revealed cargo, navigate by astrolabe interactive, spyglass interactive and cannon port interactive.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project: Pirates! Traveling Exhibit
Designer: Hammer Media
Client: Ripley’s Entertainment, Inc.
Size: 2,500 square feet (232 m²) of exhibit space
Photography: Gary Heatherly
Scope of Work: ThemeWorks provided comprehensive fabrication services for this traveling exhibit that examines the history and colorful personalities of Piracy. Our work included building all walls, dioramas, interactives, pirate figures, and scenic fabrication. All skeletal pirate figures were sculpted with an internal steel armature to ensure durability with over two million anticipated exhibit guests. The Wapping Tide exhibit features carved stonework and a hanging gibbet cage photo opportunity, which our blacksmith constructed and welded by hand. The partial ship deck of a pirate sloop was hand-crafted to appear as hand-hewn oak, including the knees, planks, beams, ribbing, and cannon ports. The ship deck features replica 4-pounder cast-iron cannons with hand-crafted wood carriages, tools and ordinance, displays of authentic medical tools and weaponry, living quarters and period lanterns. Exhibit interactives include a hidden treasure stash, quizzes with dagger handles, hard tack interactive with weevils, crate crawl-through with revealed cargo, navigate by astrolabe interactive, spyglass interactive and cannon port interactive.