The Experiential Design Index

Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact — Mystic Seaport Museum

"Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact," a 5,000 sq ft exhibition in Mystic Seaport Museum's Collins Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut, opened in 2025 with lighting design by Eos Lightmedia (Abernathy Lighting Design), developed with the museum's in-house exhibition staff.

VenueMystic Seaport Museum
Project typeTemporary Exhibition
StatusCompleted
Year completed2025

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Eos Lightmedia Lighting Design Lighting design and onsite aiming supervision (as its Abernathy Lighting Design studio), working with the museum's in-house exhibition staff; no other outside design firm named.

Description

Centered on a large scratch-board illustration of a whale with embedded imagery, the exhibition explores humanity's historical and modern impact on the sea through the lens of whaling.

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