Translations for immersive museum and visitor centre experiences
The challenge
Sarner delivers large-scale exhibition and visitor experience projects, where content must operate seamlessly across physical, digital and interactive environments.
Flagship installations, including the Norwegian Nature Centre and the Cittadella Visitors’ Centre in Gozo, required the delivery of extensive, structured content across multiple zones, formats and languages. These projects combined:
- Interpretive panels and scientific content
- Interactive and touchscreen experiences
- AV and multimedia narratives
Each environment required content that was:
- Clear and accessible for international audiences
- Consistent across formats and exhibition zones
- Delivered in line with design, production and installation schedules
The scale of the work, coupled with tight timelines and evolving project requirements, created a high-pressure delivery environment.
Our approach
A consistent and integrated model was applied across multiple Sarner projects, supporting multilingual delivery throughout the exhibition lifecycle.
This included:
- Translation and localisation of large, structured exhibition copydecks across multiple zones and subject areas
- Delivery across multiple languages, ensuring accessibility for diverse audiences
- Support for interactive and AV content, ensuring clarity across digital and touchscreen environments
- Batch-based workflows aligned with design and installation milestones
- Ongoing linguistic consulting to maintain consistency in tone, terminology and audience suitability
- Full support for Sarner’s CMS for no bottlenecks when importing translated content
This approach offered scalable delivery across both flagship projects – the Norwegian Nature Centre and Cittadella Visitors’ Centre. It also provided the flexibility to respond to evolving content and last-minute updates as well as guaranteeing consistency across highly varied content formats.
The result
- Consistent multilingual delivery across large-scale, multi-zone exhibition environments
- Alignment between content, design intent and installation timelines
- Reliable delivery across print, digital and interactive formats
- Flexible support for both planned workflows and rapid updates
- Clear, accessible communication for international visitor audiences
Sarner International was able to deliver complex exhibition environments where content remained coherent, accurate and engaging across languages and formats – and visitors continue to enjoy the experiences.
“Media Translation delivered excellent work, providing end-to-end translation support for two major visitor attractions in Norway and Malta.”
