Navigating Unprecedented Challenges
Planet Word’s production and opening coincided with the global pandemic, requiring rapid adaptation. Our team developed solutions for a touchless, fully digital museum experience, ensuring that interactivity could be maintained without compromising guest health and safety. The result: a museum that felt ahead of its time, offering visitors a sense of wonder in a moment when connection and inspiration felt especially meaningful.
Recognition and Impact
Since opening, Planet Word has been celebrated across the museum and design industries. Awards include the SEGD Global Design Award, earned in partnership with exhibit designers Local Projects. Beyond accolades, the museum has become a landmark in experiential education, showing how technology and storytelling can combine to create meaningful, transformative cultural spaces.
Why It Matters
Planet Word exemplifies how immersive experience design can elevate museums into cultural epicenters. For Solomon Group, it was an opportunity to lead with our producer-led approach: aligning strategy, design, technology, and fabrication to deliver one of the most innovative museums of the decade.
To successfully create this unique museum space, our team joined the exhibit team during its design phase, contributing critical and innovative thinking and expertise. Our Fabrication and A/V Integration teams worked together to prototype complex components; workshop and identify solutions with the client, designers and media producers; and seamlessly install a polished exhibit.
