OVERVIEW
Dinosaurs arouse curiosity, not just because of their sheer size, but because of the mystery surrounding their lives and their sudden extinction. And, there’s curiosity about the people who dedicated their lives to discovering and researching their remains. Visitors to a dinosaur museum are looking for answers as well as spectacular exhibits — Dinosaur Hall in the Natural History Museum provides both. With the world’s only T-rex family of baby, juvenile and adult skeletons on display, Triceratops, a 68-foot Mamenchisaurus and many other massive specimens, the dinosaurs are the stars. But, innovative technology turns visitors into explorers letting them join the pioneers who made the early discoveries and get inside the bones.
Electrosonic partnered with designers Evidence Design, content providers Unified Field and Lexington Design & Fabrication to design, engineer, program and install audiovisual and interactive systems for Dinosaur Hall.
The innovative displays are as impressive as the dinosaurs themselves. With over 100 different specimens on display at the 43-foot Dinosaur Wall, visitors can examine individual bones, zoom in and rotate them using touchscreens. When they are finding out about dinosaur heads, visitors can use interactive touchscreens to simulate their calls. Technology recreates the dinosaur landscape too with a 15-foot wide screen providing an information canvas to match the scale of Triceratops and Mamenchisaurus.
Junior explorers can take part in their own expeditions of discovery — a multi-touch screen capable of handling 32 simultaneous touches provides a lifelike game that recreates the challenges and excitement of a real dinosaur excavation. Through informative videos, interactive displays and digital walls throughout the museum, visitors can learn more about the explorers and the scientists whose painstaking work helped to unravel the mysteries of the dinosaurs. This is an extraordinary experience, using 21st century technology to interpret the lives of creatures 180 million years old.
