Canadian Canoe Museum partners with GSM Project

PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — Following a nationwide selection process, the Canadian Canoe Museum is partnering with exhibition design firm GSM Project to create a new building beside the Peterborough Lift Lock on the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario.

GSM Project will work with the organization to ensure that the world’s largest collection of canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft is not only exhibited, but experienced, states a release issued by the museum.

Following a request for proposals and an in-depth selection process, GSM Project was chosen to work alongside staff and the Exhibit Design Committee to create visitor experiences in two key areas of the new museum:

• exhibition galleries: approximately 21,000 square feet of exhibit space expected to feature 10 to 12 galleries; and
• a collections Centre: approximately 28,000 square feet of open storage space featuring more than 500 full-sized watercraft stored on individual mounts and arranged on racking systems and artifacts.

GSM Project was the lead designer of the new Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of History – the largest exhibition about Canadian history ever developed. The 40,000-square-foot exhibition opened July 1, 2017. GSM Project has also recently completed the Alaska Gallery at the Anchorage Museum; Human at the Montreal Science Centre; three of the galleries at the new Canada Science and Technology Museum; and the Canada Goose Arctic Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature.