exhibit design

Historically, zoo animals have been exhibited in taxonomic fashion. Partly for ease of care, partly for zoos having a "stamp collecting" mentality. More recently, we've had zoogeographic exhibits: which can be wonderfully educative, but are often repetitive across zoos. "Asian temple", "Amazon...

Now that Brookfield has confirmed the outdoor Tropic World Expansion, I thought it would be fun to create some mock designs before they finish their official designs in the spring. Here's a first draft of what I put together for the space. The outdoor exhibit is designed to complement the...

Hi there, I'm looking for some guidance when it comes to protecting open air animal exhibits from visitors' personal objects falling in. For instance, do you use any type of netting or plastic barriers at/under railings? Open to any conversation and ideas, successes and challenges. I did a quick...

Hello my name is Trenton Pharis, and I am 20 years old at the time of writing this. I am currently a student at Kansas State University studying Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. I would eventually like to end up working at a "zoo design firm" like one of the many Jones and Jones...

Hi, This is another take of a modern children zoo. This children zoo upholds the aim of a modern zoo - it focuses of keeping wild, and mostly endangered species. Still, these animals can be allowed to interact with children. The exhibit is also strongly educative - at the level of children...

Hi all! I'm a studying captive animals student doing an assignment on enclosure design and was wondering if anyone knows the dimensions of the the Lumholtz tree kangaroo enclosure at Currumbin Wildlife sanctuary. I've tried to contact the directly with no avail, so any information will be major...

Temperate zoos show their animals indoors for part of the year, and build great indoor spaces for primates, birds or crocodiles. However, tropical carnivores and hoofed animals usually have only functionally designed 'dens' or 'stalls'. Which zoos went beyond this, and make large and...

Which species and where were successfully mixed with crocodiles? Fish, water turtles and small arboreal birds are common, but what else?

Which zoos and which species have crossings over visitor paths, so that animals, e.g. monkeys, orangutans or binturongs walk over visitors heads? Especially interesting are open ones (not closed passages) where an animal could theoretically jump down. How high are those approximately?

Inspired by an off-topic discussion in the Smithsonian National Zoo News 2021 thread, this well-themed African-themed exhibit is a speculative redevelopment of the current Cheetah Conservation Station exhibit that will take you on a journey across the savannas and highlands of Ethiopia…

Hello! I'm currently working on an exhibit design project for an ornithology class, and can find almost no sources about captive breeding of the Steller's Sea Eagle. I know these birds are bred in Cincinnati and San Diego, but I'm unsure of the incubation practices used. I assume the eggs are...

What exhibits you know where animals can walk / rest over visitors heads? - Are they popular and justify the cost of building them? - What is good and what could be improved? I toyed with two fictional exhibits. One is a fictional polar bear exhibit crossed by a visitor path inside a fake...

Zoo La Fleche has underwater viewing for tigers with some water lilies. I realized that zoos very rarely show water lilies in animal exhibits (besides fish tanks) and rarely show wetland ecosystems (not deep freshwater). I think it would be cool to see giant Victoria water lilies with piranhas...

This is my idea of a children zoo set in a cold climate, and designed to be fully attractive in both summer and sub-zero temperatures. It focuses on animals of Asia and contains outdoor and indoor parts. I also tried to introduce many threatened species. Outdoor area: nomad camp of Mongolia...

I really enjoy natural history museums and the old school exhibits within them specifically the wildlife mounts whether in dioramas or not. I think animal mounts can continue to educate visitors in museums because for those of us who have seen specimens up close in person in a museum or in a zoo...

Hi everyone, I’m Anthony, a zoo enthusiast and herp lover from London, UK. I’ve been a follower of the fantasy zoos forum for many years and thought it was time to get involved. I wanted to design a world class zoo, situated here in the UK, that would give the likes of San Diego, Taronga and...

What (or rather, where) is the best King Cobra exhibit that you have ever seen in a zoo?

There are already numerous species kept in zoos which are now extinct in their natural state and realistically speaking there are likely to be far more of these housed in the future as the biodiversity crisis intensifies. The purpose of this thread is for zoochatters to highlight, discuss and...

So on this app, I have heard much disproval of the Jungle Temple exhibits for Asian themed exhibits and so I wanted to know what replacements zoos have found for these exhibits. Good examples are the Tiger Trail at San Diego Zoo Safari Park that uses a Longhouse or Asian Highlands at Clevland...

Dear members, During a recent study of the wild presence of Iguana iguana in Thailand and Singapore we noticed that green iguanas are being exhibited in ways that don't prevent their escape. Link to a free copy of the preprint manuscript...