MUSEOGRAPHER, CREATOR OF VISITOR EXPERIENCES
NICOLAS ST-CYR
SOCIÉTÉ EN COMMANDITE SIMPLE
(LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
TRIFLUVIEN & BRUXELLOIS
Belgian citizen of Canadian origin (Trois-Rivières, Québec), Nicolas St-Cyr is a museographer who has been responsible for programming, designing and creating museums, interpretation centers and exhibitions in North America and Europe.
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(photo: Dreams of Freedom exhibition, International Institute of Boston)
ABOUT AN ATYPICAL PROFESSION
Museo…logist/grapher
The photographer Edward Steichen said of the exhibition: “it is a film in which you are moving and where the images are still."
A museographer (or museologist in some countries) is the scriptwriter of that film. He collects the story’s materials from the scientific experts and museum’s curators, which he then puts on display.
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(trompe-l'oeil image by Peter Logan : visitor walking in the Battle of Waterloo)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
30 years of museography
From 1988 to 2018, in North America, Europe and Asia, I participated in the design and production of almost fifty permanent or temporary exhibitions.
In all these projects, I develop schematics and thematic structures to highlight the full potential of a theme or a museum collection. Such an original approach makes it possible to establish connections that do not always appear at first analysis. It is this methodological precision that opens the creative horizons necessary for the conception and execution of an unprecedented exhibition.
I create authentic visitor experiences.
Whoever frequents a museum is a visitor well before being a spectator, a listener or a reader. Of course the visitor looks, listens and reads, but when he visits, he wanders in a space.
And this space must be such that no other experience can match it.
PROJECTS PRODUCED AS PRINCIPAL MUSEOGRAPHER
2018 BEL-EXPO, Bruxelles Environnement
2018 VIRTUAL, holographic projection, Accuray, Barcelona
2016 Lascaux, the International Centre for Cave Art, Montignac
2015 Hougoumont Memorial, Waterloo Battlefield
2012-2018 Lascaux, the International Exhibition (12 cities on 4 continents)
2011 European Commission Visitor’s Center, Brussels
2009 Nasza Ziema, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
2008 It’s Our Earth, site of Tour & Taxis, Brussels
2008 Trading Memories, Arlington House, Speightstown, Barbados
2007 Nidhe Israel Museum, Bridgetown, Barbados
2006 Maison de l’Émigration Française en Canada, Tourouvre, France
2003 Québec all dressed, Musée québécois de la culture populaire, Trois-Rivières
2003 La maison éclatée, Montreal Science Center
2002 Communication Hall, Centre de culture scientifique ULB, Parentville, Belgium
2002 The Industrial Revolution & the Memorial of August 8 1956, Bois-du-Cazier, Marcinelle, Belgium
2001 The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701, Musée Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal
2000 Dreams of Freedom,, International Institute of Boston
1998 Terra Incognita (18 min. multimedia) & The Instruments of Discovery, Science Center, Visionarium, Porto, Portugal
1996 Balade en sol minier, Musée régional des mines de Malartic, Quebec
1994 Civil Aviation in Quebec, Aéroports de Montréal
1992 Entre deux feux, Montreal Biodome
1992 Layers and Layers of History & The Archaeological Crypt, Musée Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal
1989 L’homme-oiseau, Musée de la civilisation, Quebec et Pulperie de Chicoutimi
1988 Landscape Interpretation, Mingan Archipelago National Park, Parks Canada
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COLLABORATION IN DESIGN AND REALIZATION
2014 Brama Poznania (the Door of Poznan) Interactive Center of Origins of Poland
2014 Bastogne War Museum, interactive devices, Belgium
2013 Vu à la radio ! 100 years of radio in Belgium, Tour and Taxis site, Brussels
2010 BE.WELCOME, the History of Immigration in Belgium, Brussels Atomium
2010 America, It's also Our History, Tour & Taxis site, Brussels
2010 European Union’ Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo
2007 It’s is Our Story, Tour & Taxis site, Brussels
2006 Einstein, the Other Gaze, Tour & Taxis site, Brussels
2006 Dinosaur Gallery, Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium, Brussels
2005 Museo del vino de Almendralejo, project, Spain
2003 Spirit of Europe, Mini-Europe, Brussels
2002 La belle Europe, Musée de l’Europe, Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels
1998 The World According to Magellan, Mendeleyev, Hubble, Mendel and 001001,Visionarium Science Center, Porto
1996 The Tree House, Montreal Botanical Garden
(since 2008)
PRESENTATION OF A FEW PROJECTS
Discover some of the projects I have collaborated on in the last decade. They provide an overview of my skills and experience.
If you wish to learn more about them, please contact me. You may also contact me to discuss a potential collaboration.
CUSSAC CAVE, DORDOGNE
2018
in collaboration with Valérie Feruglio, prehistorian
Proposal for an interpretation project in 3 phases:
1. Benchmarking
2. Museographic scenario
3. Financial feasibility
(under development)
SKILLS
Rigor and flexibility
Project manager
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team leadership (organization, recruitment, control)
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scheduling (design, production, installation)
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budget planning and cost control
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specifications and acceptance of works
Creative director
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architectural programming of museum functions
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programming of temporary exhibitions
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direction of design and production of permanent and temporary exhibitions
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selection and acquisition of collections (copyright)
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artistic direction (artworks, museography, multimedia)
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implementation (artefacts, artworks, scenography, interactive devices, texts and multimédia)
Writer and editor
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writing concepts and visit experiences
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writing and production of synopses, scenarios and storyboards for multimedia and interactive devices
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drafting of exhibition and marketing texts
The quality of experience
Nicolas St-Cyr's achievements are characterized by the harmonious implementation of heritage, artistic and scientific aspects of a museum project.
« Turn indifference into interest, prejudice into sensibility and ignorance into knowledge in a visitor experience that only the genius loci can offer »
Nicolas St-Cyr
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