Designed by Stephen Feber Ltd, sound, light and multimedia is used throughout to enhance the spaces while minimising physical intrusion, and where more substantial graphics or exhibits are included, their installation is carefully planned to respect the nature of the building and allow for their easy future replacement or removal.

The Exhibition design also aims to help differentiate between the buildings and artifacts as found, and re-created or new elements installed for display. Materials are selected to chime with the industrial appearance of the buildings, but the nature of their use will always make clear the 'join' between the old and the new.

Services are supplied throughout in multi-purpose cable trays with an appropriate, affordable surface-mounted system specified to convey the power and data to the exact required location. In the entrance hall, flexibility is maximised with a grid of floor boxes, making virtually any use of this space deliverable with ease.

The exhibition:

• Is a flagship location for the WHS story, though it extends the interpretation of WHS themes to respond to the unique character and features of Robinson's as a working mine until the 1990's
• Will be a key resource for tourists and overseas visitors engaged in the Cornish Mining story but will have a primary function as a regular drop-in activity for local families spending quality time together and sharing between generations.

The exhibition responds to three broad strategic headings:

• To interpret the site in the manner of a found object rather than attempting to restore Cornwall’s mining past (a goal achieved to excellent effect elsewhere). This approach resonates through every room of the exhibition, represented in utilitarian trunking, fittings and finishes; consolidated rather than restored artifacts; a series of 'time capsules' preserving key features exactly as found. The aim is to deliver this in a way that honours and celebrates the working life of the mine and the broader mining history, while providing an undercurrent of mourning for the industry's heyday, long gone. By accepting the loss of this defining culture and addressing the decay into which Robinson's quickly fell, we can highlight the strength of the human bonds that made up Cornish Mining Culture and look constructively for what might replace it in the future.
• To engage with Cornish cultural history, providing a place of record and respect for the living local community. A strong thread of oral history runs through the entire exhibition, with stories drawn out at each stage from structures and objects, and broader themes addressed from the point of view of the miners, the wider community and Cousins Jack from around the world. Further themes look at Cornish innovation from an historical perspective. Heartlands as a whole will be a community resource and the exhibition is no exception: partnerships with local archives and oral history bodies will tie the exhibition content into deep-rooted cultural priorities. Going further, the exhibition aims to pose some challenging questions to which visitors can respond directly, enabling a new type of debate about Cornishness in this post-mining era.
• To represent sustainable technologies as part of a continuous energy story running right from prehistory, through Cornish Engines, to options for Cornwall’s industrial future. Hard rock mining was transformed and Cornwall catapulted onto a world stage by the vast efficiency improvements attained in the Cornish engine and its successors. Once again energy supply limitations loom on our horizons: Cornwall is projected to be a leader in sustainable technology implementation and even development: is this a new stimulus to Cornish innovation? And if not, what else might be key to Cornwall’s future?