How long does the exhibition take to install?

A room of prints can be hung in a day or two. A hall with lightboxes and built walls needs longer; the time is agreed for each venue with the design.

Can the selection be chosen around our own collection or theme?

Yes. The series holds more than 300 works, so a selection can follow a theme: pollinators, dangerous species, light-makers, or the insects of a region.

Can the exhibition tour to other museums afterwards?

Yes. It is designed to travel, and each venue can receive its own selection.

Insect exhibition for museums

Glowing Bugs shows insects, spiders and other small creatures as living glass, lit from within, in neon colour against pure black. For a museum it is a temporary exhibition that draws families and holds the attention of specialists: every picture is a work of art, and everything printed beside it is natural history.

What a museum receives

A selection from more than 300 works, chosen for your space and your public
Each creature with its scientific name, its range, its true size and three sourced facts
Prints on wood or acrylic under glass, lightboxes up to three metres high, and prints up to five metres
The design of the route, the hang, wall texts and captions
The book of the exhibition, Glowing Bugs, for the museum shop, and its companion, Most Dangerous Bugs

Sizes

There are complete designs for a room of 100 square metres with about 45 works, for 200 square metres with about 90, and for halls of 400 and 900 square metres with 150 to nearly 300. Each has a floor plan, a visitor route and a view from inside.

For schools and families

The facts are short and written to be read aloud. A row of five signs lets a child compare one creature with another at a glance: how dangerous it is, when it is active, whether it lives alone, whether it glows, and its special move.

Checked against the science

All 303 plates of the series were compared with the anatomy of the real animals, and every fact is traced to its source. The plates are artistic interpretations and do not show the true colours of the living animal; the exhibition says so.