  The MoEDAL experiment (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is designed
to directly search for magnetic monopoles and other highly ionising stable or
metastable particles arising in various theoretical scenarios beyond the
Standard Model. Its physics goals --largely complementary to the multi-purpose
LHC detectors ATLAS and CMS-- are accomplished by the deployment of plastic
nuclear track detectors combined with trapping volumes for capturing charged
highly ionising particles and TimePix pixel devices for monitoring. This paper
focuses on the status of the detectors and the prospects for LHC Run II.
