Bloedel Reserve Interpretive Plan
Client: Science Museum of Minnesota
Blodel Reserve on Bainbridge Island is a public garden leading visitors through an extraordinary series of cultivated landscapes that combine second-growth Pacific Northwest forest with designed gardens, meadows, water features, wildlife habitats, and diverse architecture.
The Reserve lives on ancestral homeland of the Suquamish People, People of the Clear Salt Water. This Interpretive Master Plan provides guidance for visitor improvement within its rich environmental, social, and cultural environment.
The Interpretive Master Plan was guided by the Reserve’s five-year Strategic Plan (2023-2027)prioritizing a holistic commitment to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. It seeks to honor the founders’ vision while making the Reserve more welcoming, responsible, and financially stable. The Strategic Plan aims to improve the visitor experience through orientation and wayfinding, storytelling, and amenities.
The vision of this Plan prioritized the visitor experience, starting from the moment they arrive. The way visitors feel, think, sense, and do while moving through the Reserve is improved through wayfinding and orientation solutions.
