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Medialon provided a Show Control system for the Olympic
and Sports Museum of Barcelona (Museu Olimpic i de l’Esport/Museo
Olimpico y del Deporte) which opened last March. The new
4,000 square-meter, four-level museum is located on
Montjuic next to the stadium which was the centerpiece
of the XXV Olympic Summer Games in 1992. Barcelona is
the first major European city with an Olympic museum.
The Olympic and Sports Museum offers a historical,
entertaining, ethical and educational view of sports in
general and the Olympics in particular. It features a
number of multimedia shows as well as memorabilia from
the 1992 Olympics and exhibits representing non-Olympic
sports. One of the main attractions is the Hall of Fame
which pays homage to great sporting figures of the past
and present along with displaying key items of the
Olympic movement such as torches, flags and trophies.
In the museum a special emphasis has been placed on
interactive displays and multimedia installations with
Medialon. Four Medialon Manager Pro and one Manager Lite
have been installed in the museum. The Medialon Manager
system controls a Dataton Watchout system with
thirty-two Watchout displays. Moreover, twelve
interactive kiosks, eighteen Edje video players, one
17-meter long LED screen, twenty-two video screens
polarized with Nudam, thirty-two video projectors
controlled by RS-232, and one audio 24 multi-channel are
also controlled by Medialon.
Among the AV installations in the museum is a 50-meter
long screen which retraces a Carl Lewis 100-meter sprint
and a Mark Spitz Olympic swim and an interactive display
which gives visitors an idea of just how high a
world-record high jump or long jump is.
The Olympic Gallery, featuring a permanent exhibition
about the Barcelona Olympic Games, includes displays
about the participants, the medals, the venues and the
paralympic games supported by nine videos clips which
show the evolution of Olympic sports.
In addition, a projection room/auditorium seating 160 is
equipped for AV and video projection of programs related
to the 1992 Olympics.
Lluís Badosa,
Francesc Sabata, Joaquim Aguerre, Hugo Cadaval and Elena
Ortega from SONO Barcelona worked on the integration of
the AV installation in the museum. |
