Science Museum Store(s)

For two years in succession, BAT Studio were commissioned to design and produce a pop-up shop for London’s Science Museum.

The Museum approached BAT Studio to design their first store outside of the museum, a Christmas pop-up shop, after seeing previous published work by the studio which utilised unexpected materials to create unique and innovative projects. A key part of BAT Studio’s concept for the store design was using colour and repetition to create surfaces with texture and depth that references sweetshops and pharmacies. To achieve this, 4,000 test tubes filled with coloured water form screens which line walls and highlight focal points in the shops interior. Framing displays of chemistry sets and other science themed toys, both the decoration and the content of the shop complement each other creating a colourful and playful space.

The images below show the shops we created for two consecutive years at the Bluewater shopping centre. BAT Studio were both designers and lead contractors on these projects.