Feature Metal Fabrication

Jewish Holocaust Museum

SUMS fabricated and installed custom metalwork as part of the award-winning redevelopment of the Jewish Holocaust Museum — one of Melbourne’s most significant cultural institutions. Designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects, the project involved over five years of construction and required metalwork of the highest precision and sensitivity.

Precision Metalwork for One of Melbourne's Most Significant Cultural Projects.

The Jewish Holocaust Museum in St Kilda reopened to the public following a landmark redevelopment designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects — a project more than a decade in the making. The redevelopment transformed the museum into a world-class facility encompassing two permanent exhibitions, a dedicated space for younger visitors, generous staff workspaces, and a powerful memorial room. SUMS was engaged as part of the construction team to deliver custom metalwork throughout the building.

The standout metalwork scope was the Memorial Room — a space designed by Stephen Jolson of Jolson Architecture, where walls lined with metal Stars of David in three different tones create an immersive field of remembrance. Suspended above polished granite stone, the effect is both intimate and monumental. Fabricating components to this standard — with exact finish tolerances across hundreds of repeated elements — demanded the kind of precision and attention to detail that defines SUMS’s approach to high-end architectural metalwork.