About
Bouw Design Agency is a full service design + build firm specializing in museum exhibits and brand development. Our team is a detail oriented group of design professionals who take pride in ensuring our clients satisfaction and delivering results beyond expectation. We take the same care in creating custom lettering and logos as we do in designing and building a fully interactive 8,000 square foot exhibit – no project is too big or too small.
Client Reviews
I wept my way through the Pier 21 Refugee Exhibition in Halifax today. It was one of the best exhibitions at a museum that I have seen. And it is the biggest honour of my life to be amongst the six refugees chosen for the "outstanding contributions to Canada" section. Thank you.
Carmen Aguirre
Author, actor, and playwright
I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with your company, Bouwdesign, for about ten years now. The most recent project being the design/build of the From Earth to Us gallery in our new museum. Each time was not only productive and extremely professional but also fun and very creative. Your designs are simply exquisite and our visitors can never have enough of your immersive experiences and inviting spaces. I have rarely worked with such a dedicated firm and flexible and accommodating creators who are always willing to go the extra mile to ensure the delivery of the best product possible. I would work with you any day.
Sylvaine Champagne
Manager, Exhibitions Canada Museum of Science and Technology
Bouwdesign delivered the professionalism that we were looking for in the design of our inaugural exhibition that opened the new Ottawa Art Gallery. Their ideas for artwork display and delivery of wayfinding and didactic information were innovative and stylish.
Catherine Sinclair
Senior Curator, Ottawa Art Gallery
It is a pleasure to work with Sunniva and her team. Designing exhibitions on natural resources, such as Potash: Feeding the World, and From Earth to Us, is not a simple task. Bouwdesign always approaches the subjects with enthusiasm. The team offers design solutions that are creative, interactive, and engaging. Bouwdesign makes the design-build process smooth and consistently delivers high quality work.
Anna Adamek
Curator, Canada Museum of Science and Technology
Great, dynamic design with attention to creativity, details and feasibility. Some research and development was done successfully for new products. Great communication of intentions, very good listener and great ability to organize and work with client.
Daniéle Goulet
Project Manager, Toles School House and India the Living Arts Canadian Museum of History
May I thank you personally for your commitment and the excellence of your work. Your involvement as the main designer responsible for the development of nearly 20,000 square feet of space and exhibitions has been crucial to the success of the First People’s Hall. The quality of your work on this project can be added to that of the various exhibition designs you have done for CMC in the past. The exhibitions From Time Immemorial, Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams, and Inuit and Englishmen, as well as the Exhibitions India, the Living Arts are fine examples of your design excellence.
Victor Rabinovitch
Past President and CEO of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Time-permitting, I have made a point to walk through the exhibition every time I have visited the Canadian War Museum. The stories are truly inspiring and some of the displays and artifacts still give me chills. Honestly, I think it is the best exhibition I have seen at the Canadian War Museum in quite some time. It was a really beautiful exhibition.
Bill Carman
Manager, Publishing and Corporate Products Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum
Awards
Footprints: A Walk Through Generations
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute travelling exhibition
Governor General History Award for Excellence in Museums
From Earth To Us
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Award of Excellence for special projects from the Ontario Museum Association for the Canada Science and Technology Museum renewal.
Refuge Canada
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Hottest tickets in Canada: Five things to do across the country, Globe and Mail, May 08, 2018
From Earth To Us
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the category of Exhibitions, 2018
From Earth To Us
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Accessibility Certified Gold rating under the Rick Hansen Foundation, 2018
Footprints: A Walk Through Generations
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the category of Cultural Heritage, 2018
Projects
Earth in Focus: Insights from Space, CSTM and the Canada Space Agency (in progress)
The Reconcilliation Canoe, UOttawa, Indigenous Affairs
Water is Life, Rama First Nations and the Muskoka Discovery Centre
Interpretive Plan and Wayfinding, Diefenbunker Canada’s Cold War Museum
Pijilasi, Mi’kmaq History — Concept Design Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Quebec Portaits, Senate of Canada
Sex, Sin & 69, Egale Canada
Prime Ministers and the Arts, Library and Archives Canada
New Gallery Graphics and Wayfinding, Ottawa Art Gallery
Premiere, Library and Archives Canada
Refuge Canada, Pier 21
To What Degree, Canada Science and Technology Museum
From Earth to Us, CSTM
What is Pluralism, Global Centre for Pluralism
Concept Design for Library Exhibition, Aga Khan Foundation
Building Up The Past, LAC
World War Women, Canadian War Museum
Foundations: The Words That Shaped Canada, Library of Parliament
Foot Prints, A Walk Through Generations, Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute
***Winner of the Governor General History Award***
Space Exhibit: Mission Control, Canadian Air and Space Museum
Kinect, Interactive Exhibit, CASM
Archaeological Exhibition, Artillery Park Aquatic Centre
Food Preservation: The Science You Eat, Canada Food and Agriculture Museum
Potash: Feeding the World, CSTM
Techno Zone, New Technology Mall, CSTM
I Know You By Heart, Portrait Gallery of Canada
Pumphouse Steam Museum, City of Kingston
Billings Estate National Heritage Site, City of Ottawa
65th Anniversary Exhibit, Canada Nuclear Safety Commission & CSTM
Toles School House, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Sound and Vision: Portraits of Musicians and Composers by Yousef Karsh, LAC
Eco Art Éco, Tulip Festival Exhibit, Chateau Laurier Panels, Gatineau Park Winter Exhibition, National Capital Commission
Anne of Green Gables at 100, LAC
The Stuff of Legend: The Luxton Family in Banff and the Bow Valley, Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta
Mega Science: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), Canada’s Nobel Laureates, and Dominion Observatory, 100th Anniversary. CSTM
Fur Trade, Canada Hall, CMC
Alberta Oil and Medalta Pottery, CMC
Rocket Richard, the Legend the Legacy, CMC
Sila: Clue into Climate Change, Canada Museum of Nature
First Peoples Hall, 20,000 sq ft permanent exhibition, CMC
India the Living Arts, CMC
Haida Masks , Grand Hall, CMC
Plains Moccasins, CMC
The Story of Dolls in Canada, CMC
Inuit and Englishmen (The Inuit Travels of Martin Frobisher), CMC
The Quebec Conferences, Governor General of Canada
The Spirit of Siberia, Bata Shoe Museum and CMC
Every Name Tells a Story: 100 Years of Official Place Naming in Canada, LAC
Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams (the Life and Times of an Ancient Arctic People), CMC
The Art of Dreams, CMC, Children’s Museum
Japanese Kites and Tops, CASM
From Time Immemorial, Tsimshian Pre-History Permanent Exhibition. CMC
Full Flight, CASM
Independence ‘92, Barrier Free Exhibition, Government of Canada
Bravo Canada, Exhibition Programs 1989 to 1992 Government