Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University (EFM) has been recognized by Grands Prix du Design with a Gold Certificate! The Grands Prix du Design Awards is an international competition that celebrates the excellence and talent of creative professionals and firms.
EFM is also eligible for the Grands Prix du Design People's Choice Award. Follow this link to vote.
Edelman Fossil Park and Museum was designed in collaboration with Ennead, KSS, G&A, and SEED design. EFM is a one-of-a-kind active fossil dig site that offers visitors the unique opportunity for hands-on discovery. The design concept for this remarkable project was envisioned as a set of metaphorical camera obscuras, an apparatus in which a tiny aperture offers a view to a realm beyond. The site itself, the experience, and the architecture are all envisioned as a series of lenses that link deep time with the present, exhibits with the quarry, and ultimately provide a view to our collective future. The renewed perspective on humanity offered by the fossil record inspired an architecture that nestles within the natural landscape as a series of small-scale pavilions that frame the evidence of past worlds, while encouraging engagement with the present moment.
Learn more about the project here.