For Museums & Libraries
Turn complex knowledge into experiences visitors can understand, explore and remember
Museums and libraries hold extraordinary knowledge, collections, stories and opportunities for discovery.
Storybranch helps transforming complex scientific and environmental knowledge into engaging experiences for visitors, readers, families and communities.
Some examples:
Challenges we can help you solve
“Our scientific content is important, but difficult for visitors to understand.”
Scientific knowledge can quickly become too technical when presented to general audiences, or lose its meaning when simplified too far.
Storybranch helps translate complex scientific and technical subjects into clear narratives, visual explanations, analogies, investigations and learning experiences without losing the science behind them.
Possible outcomes:
- Exhibition text.
- Interpretive concepts.
- Scientific narratives.
- Visual explanations.
- Diagrams.
- Educational resources.
- Visitor guides and digital content.
“We have excellent content, but we want visitors to do more than read panels.”
Visitors can learn through observing, questioning, comparing, investigating, discussing and discovering.
We help museums develop experiences that invite visitors to actively explore the ideas behind collections and exhibitions rather than only receive information.
Possible outcomes:
- Interactive activities.
- Investigation stations.
- Visitor challenges.
- Question-based journeys.
- Facilitated experiences.
- Games and hands-on learning concepts.
“We want children and families to engage with the science without turning it into entertainment without substance.”
Children are capable of exploring sophisticated ideas when those ideas are presented through meaningful questions, stories, visual thinking and investigation.
Storybranch develops scientifically grounded experiences that make complex topics accessible while preserving curiosity, accuracy and intellectual depth.
Possible outcomes:
- Family trails.
- Activity guides.
- Investigation cards.
- Workshops:
- Educational programs.
- Character-led experiences.
- Books and take-home resources.
“We need educational programmes connected to our collections or exhibitions.”
An exhibition can become the starting point for deeper learning.
We work with museums to translate exhibition themes and collections into programmes for schools, families and other visitor groups.
Possible outcomes:
- Workshops.
- School programs.
- Teacher resources.
- Facilitated investigations.
- Learning materials and activities linked directly to exhibition content.
“We have researchers, curators and educators with different expertise, but need help connecting everything into one experience.”
Strong exhibitions often sit at the intersection of several disciplines.
Storybranch can help structure that complexity, bringing scientific content, educational goals, visitor needs, storytelling and possible technologies into a coherent concept.
Possible outcomes:
- Concept development.
- Interdisciplinary workshops.
- Visitor-experience frameworks.
- Content architecture.
- Co-creation processes.
- Project briefs.
“We want to connect what visitors see inside the museum with the living world outside it.”
Museums can help people understand that scientific knowledge does not end at the exhibition door.
For museums working with nature, biodiversity, materials, forests, sustainability or environmental science, We can develop experiences that extend learning into gardens, parks, forests or surrounding environments.
Possible outcomes:
- Outdoor investigations.
- Nature-based workshops.
- Citizen-science-inspired activities.
- Observation guides.
- Field challenges and indoor–outdoor learning journeys.
How Storybranch can work with your museum
For Museums
Exhibition Interpretation & Experience Design
We help develop the intellectual and visitor-learning architecture behind an exhibition. This may include identifying the central questions, structuring scientific content, creating narrative pathways, developing visitor interactions and determining how different forms of interpretation work together.
We can work alongside your curators, researchers, educators, designers and technical partners.
Scientific Communication & Knowledge Translation
We translate complex scientific knowledge for non-specialist audiences while protecting its scientific integrity.
This can include exhibition interpretation, visual science communication, scientific storytelling, diagrams, microscopic imagery, educational texts and communication resources.
We design workshops and learning experiences connected to your collections, exhibitions and scientific themes.
Programmes can be developed for schools, families, children, educators, professional groups or mixed audiences.
Nature-Based & Outdoor Experiences
We can connect exhibitions with observation and investigation in the living world.
Experiences can combine scientific learning, systems thinking, sensory observation, nature connection and collaborative exploration.
Research, Co-Creation & Experimental Projects
Storybranch can also collaborate with museums as a research and innovation partner.
We are particularly interested in projects exploring new approaches to scientific communication, environmental literacy, citizen science, immersive learning and public engagement with complex scientific questions.
Turn the library into a place for scientific curiosity, shared discovery and community learning
For Libraries
Storybranch can help libraries create programmes and experiences that connect science, nature, sustainability, storytelling and community learning.
Science, Nature & Sustainability Programmes
Workshops, talks and interactive experiences around trees, forests, biodiversity, materials, sustainability, circularity and systems thinking.
Family & Children’s Experiences
Story-led science, investigations, family workshops, holiday programmes, games and book-linked activities.
Community Learning & Participation
Community workshops, intergenerational activities, local storytelling and citizen-science-inspired experiences.
Books, Resources & Pop-Up Learning
Book-linked programmes, activity stations, mini learning displays, educational resources and family discovery activities.
What Storybranch brings
Scientific Integrity
Evidence, honesty and responsible communication
Systems Thinking
We help see relationships between organisms, materials, technologies, people, environments and society, rather than isolated facts.
Curiosity
We encourage people to observe, question, compare, discover and make connections.
Storytelling with purpose
Narrative is used to provide context, curiosity and meaning around scientific knowledge.
Interdisciplinary thinking
We work between science, engineering, education, communication, creativity and technology.
