Alphabetical Sydney Creative Lab

Museum of Sydney

Alphabetical Sydney: Creative Lab was an exhibition commissioned by the Museum of Sydney in 2017. Antonia Pesenti and playwright Hilary Bell collaborated with the Museum to create the design and content for a family exhibition based on their best-selling book Alphabetical Sydney.

Sydney was brought to life with a series of creative activities designed to capture the imagination and reveal the magic of the city, from the icons to the suburbs, from the mundane to the wondrous.

A souvenir Lab Kit was specially created for this exhibition, leading visitors through the show with illustrations and rhyming verse. Visitors investigated clues in the mini museum, wrote their own verse in the poetry factory, experienced the magic of Sydney at dusk or relaxed with a book under the canopy of a Moreton Bay fig tree.