ACMI by BKK and Publicis Sapient/second Story

ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture, has opened the doors of its ambitious multi-platform museum. ACMI partnered with award-winning Melbourne architects BKK, who redesigned the museum’s functional layout and public spaces, and experience design firm Publicis Sapient/second Story, who designed the museum’s new centrepiece exhibition, The Story of the Moving Image. In a unique approach, BKK and Publicis Sapient/ Second Story were engaged and briefed to work collaboratively with ACMI to deliver the new museum. Inspired by Melbourne’s iconic intersecting laneways, which were the basis of the original Federation Square design, BKK created an open staircase that gently leads visitors between the museum’s Fed Square entrance and its lower Flinders Street entrance, while lifts provide easy access between the museum’s multiple levels.

Photography — Shannon Mcgrath

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