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The Worker’s Museum -also called Arbejdermuseet-, in
Copenhagen, Denmark, is dedicated to the history of the
Danish worker movement starting from mid-19th century.
Medialon has been selected as the main show control
system for the “Industry worker” exhibition of the
museum section.
The exhibition has been designed by Blekksprut AS who
contracted Multitekst Ltd. to integrate Medialon.
The exhibition starts in an introductory room where a
7-minute long HD movie with historical facts is
displayed on a 42” LCD monitor. A Danish and English
version is available. The language option and movie play
can be selected by the visitors themselves. Multitekst
Ltd. has also created an option to allow museum
officials to select sections of the introduction movie
as well as the proper lighting cues by means of 7 push
buttons, simply by activating a key switch.
While the movie is playing, a Medialon Manager Timeline
controls a Kiss Box DMX512 device that activates the
lighting of various objects in the room, according to
the recorded presentation. A relay module also brings a
mechanical model to life as part of the introduction
story, focusing lights on it at the right moment.
After the introductory room, visitors go through several
exhibition rooms. In a couple of them, “Listening posts”
allow them to listen to interviews of workers of the
local industry from a century ago. Medialon Manager
commands the SoundMan-Server application module by
Richmond Sound Design as audio source. SoundMan server
is running on the same PC that runs Medialon Manager.
The Medialon Manager Pro license is also controlling
seven Medialon Multimedia Interactive Players (MIP),
five 37” LCD monitors as well as two B&O TV sets. A
KissBox DMX512 interface controls the lighting of the
exhibition, and all video and control signals are
extended from the server room via BlackBox AV extenders.
Medialon Manager is also used at the floor entrance by
the museum’s staff where a key switch allows them to
easily switch on/off all the lights of the museum,
remotely and automatically start the exhibition show,
etc.
“I am quite pleased we were able to use only one PC to
run Medialon Manager as show controller,
LocalMediaPlayer MxM to show the HD videos on the Intro
screen, as well as run the SoundMan-Server application.
Well written software does not stress the computer at
all”, concluded Vidar Eggen, Expert programmer from
Multitekst.
For further information, please visit:
> www.arbejdermuseet.dk |
