"Souvenir"-The Hunt Museum Project

For this assignment we were to investigate the Hunt Museum with the idea of a "souvenir" an mind...
I found that for me the Hunt Museum experience was about more than just the various quirky objects in the collection, it was also an insight into how the Hunt family themselves lived; surrounded by beautiful, interesting objects in their own home...

Mr. and Mrs. John and Gertrude Hunt

John Hunt at the site of an archaeological dig
, the likes of which the whole family became involved in.

Mrs. Hunt in her trademark horn rimmed glasses, also wearing some of the museums
jewellry collection: pearls and a 'Pegasus' brooch 

The Hunt Family

 Photographs of the Hunts are found throughout the museum, and the layout of the building itself combined with the display of the collection gives the place a homely, inviting sense...for example some of the artefacts are displayed in drawers...it gives the viewer the feeling of poking through the family's drawers!

Also certain pieces from the collection stood out to me...

'Plat del Dia'  by Pablo Picasso

Picasso's 'Plat del Dia' menu card for the 4 Cats restaurant...
William Leeches' portrait of the young Suzanne Botterell...
I imagine they too would have been like characters in the family...

Portrait of the young Suzanne Botterell
by William Leech

Next was to play around with these images of the Hunts and their collection, including these paintings and other ideas...

Applying these images to a form which would be comfortable to the viewer was also key to creating  the inviting feeling found in the museum...