An exhibition in a museum is not a book.

People go to museums to learn something while moving in a three-dimensional space, and when you have to learn in a three-dimensional space, you don’t expect to read a densely written instruction manual. Instead, you expect to learn information visually, practically, and distributed in space.

Therefore, using infographics that can visually explain complex concepts while minimizing the amount of text required allows the viewer to have a much more practical and visually memorable experience while visiting the museum halls, admiring the display cases and dioramas within.

A classic feature of natural history museums is certainly dioramas.

Dioramas have the ability to transport the viewer into the natural environment that the diorama represents.

However, dioramas can be a very costly production: to create a diorama, a dedicated room is needed, along with a taxidermist or a statue maker for depicting extinct animals, someone to create the plants, lighting installations, and someone to create the backdrops.

Not to mention that dioramas require ongoing maintenance for the animals and materials used.

As a great admirer of dioramas in natural history museums and having studied in-depth those present in the Natural History Museum of Milan over the years, I have developed a style and a working method to recreate the magic and immersiveness of a museum diorama on a practical two-dimensional format.

My mural paintings for museums are not simply paintings depicting animals or a natural landscape. To create such a pictorial work, one must be able to depict an environment and the animals within it, positioning the various elements in a narrative, organic, and natural way, providing the feeling of completeness and richness of perfectly integrated elements one experiences when looking at a high-quality diorama.

Immersiveness in my painting is guaranteed by the use of large formats. Over time, I have developed a digital working method that allows me to work with and manage enormous files that can be printed at sizes ranging from 5 to 8 meters in length while maintaining high print quality, enabling close-up viewing without loss of resolution and detail.

This high-resolution details in large formats can have the same immersive effect as a diorama and can provide valuable support as a backdrop for even larger dioramas or larger skeletal reconstructions.

Representing the animal in actual life-size breaks the limit of imagination and allows the viewer to be faced with the subject concretely, as if they were in front of it in reality. This visual support to the viewer’s imagination enables them to focus more on the contents conveyed by the exhibition and make connections between the various presented concepts, without having to spend part of their attention imagining aspects that are difficult to visualize, such as dimensions.

Museums are not just collections or collections of objects and ancient artifacts. Museums are symbols of historical memory and the cultural heritage of the territory in which they are founded.

This means that by visiting a museum, it is possible to learn about and come into contact with the history and richness of a specific geographical region. A museum collection accompanied by art pieces, murals, infographics, and illustrations that are coherent and born from the study of the territory allows visitors to experience emotions connected to it, increasing the perceived value of the travel experience and the sharing of it with close people and potential future visitors.

Being a stronghold of institutions within the territory, the museum is the business card with which these institutions present themselves to visitors and tourists. Therefore, commissioning works and illustrations specifically created with an understanding of the culture of a particular territorial reality allows for a significant increase in the perceived value of archaeological and paleontological artifacts and the structures that contain them, enhancing the prestige of the institutions that have worked on them.