Listen to Bozhentsi Exhibition

“Listen to Bozhentsi” shares many stories about the enterprising people of Bozhentsi — founders, merchants, craftsmen, builders, and benefactors. The exhibition teaches their lessons through games, storytelling, and surprising discoveries, showing the many ways in which we, too, can be enterprising.

At the center of the hall, we created the “Tezgyah” (market stall), where visitors receive hands-on lessons in entrepreneurship in a fun and engaging way. The stall and its interactions were also inspired by the workshops regularly organized by the museum team. In this way, we build upon the museum’s valuable practices, well-known and loved by Bozhentsi’s visitors. At the stall, objects form a kind of theater that encourages playful exploration of materials and artifacts. Visitors search for and discover the stories these objects tell.

Our role was leading — from shaping the visitor experience to transforming history into spatial narratives through the objects and installations of the stall. The museum team contributed the intriguing legends of Bozhentsi, while we, the architects, devised the playful ways in which they come alive in space.