London Remembrance Gallery
London
2018 marked the centenary of the Armistice and the end of the First World War, and the ambition was to deliver a Remembrance Service and install a permanent exhibition at City Hall to commemorate this significant milestone in world history.
GuM was appointed as the Lead Exhibition Designer, providing services in 3D Design, Interpretation, Graphic Design, Research and Scriptwriting.
The first-floor viewing gallery at City Hall was also permanently named the London Remembrance Gallery. A large ‘Poppy Cloud’, created by Blonstein, was suspended overhead, and stainless-steel plaques at either end of the space, featuring the new gallery name and an extract of Laurence Binyon’s poem ‘For the Fallen’, were installed to mark the occasion.
A temporary exhibition was also designed by GuM Studio on the second floor of City Hall, which depicts First World War stories specific to each of the 33 London Boroughs alongside 33 London Borough Crests. A specially designed wall housing four screens runs historic footage from British Pathé, focusing on themes such as hospitals, social and welfare, war effort, home and war abroad during the First World War.
London Remembrance Gallery used the significance of 2018 to remember Londoners that have been impacted by war over the last one hundred years, including WW1 and WW2. It remembered the stories of the young, the old and fallen servicemen and women.