Museum of World Religions

The Project

The Museum of World Religions is Taiwan’s first-ever museum centered around religion and faith. Established by Master Hsin Tao – the founder of Ling Jiou Mountain Wu Sheng Monastery – the museum features retrospectives on the world’s religions and provides an opportunities for visitors to learn about, reflect and appreciate the differences and similarities of various religious concepts.

The Challenge

I was tasked with creating an experience that allowed visitors to compare and contrast various world religions in an interactive display. The challenge was sourcing content and designing a layout that most effectively allowed visitors to effectively learn about hundreds of religious concepts in a way that was both elegant and meaningful.

The Approach

The facility envisioned a dome – not dissimilar from a planetarium – that would serve as a globe on which to pinpoint various world religions. As the producer of the physical interface, I managed the creation of the physical dome and its projection lenses. Upon completion of the framework, the team led the content strategy, which mapped hundreds of religious concepts and their relative similarities.

The Satisfaction

The dome is one of the primary features of this $66 million-dollar museum, and thousands of visitors have experienced it since the museum’s opening in 2002. I've worked with a diverse set of stakeholders who participated in the museum’s curation and development, including scholars, historians and technology teams with members from around the world – representative of the project’s global impact.