April 2013 - Commissioned by First patagonia to research, plan and design the brand new Pioneer Museum at Petrohue, in Vincente Rosalles National Park, Chile.
The Pioneer Museum celebrates the great explorers, adventurers and pioneers such as Santiago Roth, Charles Darwin, Vicente Pe´rez Rosales and President Theodore Roosevelt who was instrumental in the creation of the National Park, the first is South America.
The concept was to keep things as simple as possible and to allow as much space as possible for live interpreters to lead groups around the space.
A key exhibit in the new museum is a reconstruction of the pan-Andean cable-car built in the 1900 and abandoned at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 (the company that owned the cable car was owned by an English and a Garman family!).
During an earlier project we rediscovered the 30 mile cable car which was filmed as a TV documentary. In this phase we have to airlift the artifacts out of the jungle by helicopter!
A key exhibit in the new museum is a reconstruction of the pan-Andean cable-car built in the 1900 and abandoned at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 (the company that owned the cable car was owned by an English and a Garman family!).
During an earlier project we rediscovered the 30 mile cable car which was filmed as a TV documentary. In this phase we have to airlift the artifacts out of the jungle by helicopter!