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Qantas Founders Outback Museum's stated mission is to ‘honour the founders' and to ‘inspire youth'. With this as a central focus, the museum will devise programs and provide facilities that invite youth (and other community members) to share in the Qantas story and to participate in challenges that stimulate initiative, encourage creativity, build self-esteem and encourage cooperation.
The museum will be a place of provocation and a leader in the central western community for challenging and rewarding innovation.
It incorporated several elements, including the conservation of the historic QANTAS hangar at Longreach airport, the construction of a new 3000 sq.m. museum building adjacent the hangar, landscaping, carparking and road upgrading, and the creation of an integrated visitor experience to bring all the elements together.
The new museum was the focus of the project, designed to house a state-of-the-art museum tracing the pioneering history of the founders of QANTAS.
Brown James were responsible for the building's interior planning and exhibition design, and led Interpretive Solutions, who were commissioned to deliver the project's integrated visitor experience.
The scope of services was complex, and included the project management of the entire delivery process. This included historical research, conceptual development of storylines, museum planning, multimedia and interactive design, product design, model-making, graphic design, artists, script writing and film-making, and market research and testing. The main exhibit was designed to allow for future displays to be installed when additional funding became available, and is structured to offer all types of visitors (whether streakers, strollers or students) to simply move through, relax and absorb, or more fully study the content of the stories being told.
The museum's facilities include a licensed restaurant, gift shop, public internet access, theatre/lecture room, four Category 'A' temporary exhibition galleries, an educational discovery centre, collection storage, loading facilities and the main exhibit area.
The museum was opened in Easter 2002 by the Premier of Queensland, and was a major event in the 2002 Year of the Outback. Brown James were proud to play an important role in telling a story that is an important part of contemporary Australian culture.
See http://www.qfm.org.au
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