11-S Anniversary: AV technology and digital signage to commemorate and remember the victims of terrorist attacks

Thirteen years after the most tragic terrorist attack in history: the 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington, The museum and space dedicated to the memory and remembrance of their victims pays an emotional tribute to them, with audiovisual and digital signage technologies as fundamental tools of this evocation.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum especially captures international attention on this day in commemoration of the thirteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, A date that has been marked in world history, in which they died 2.976 people.

This space, Created as a place of homage, worship, Reflection and remembrance of the victims of 9/11, It fully opened its doors a few months ago with the inauguration of the museum by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and it is located on the block where the twin towers that made up the World Trade Center were originally located, a commercial and business complex in Lower Manhattan made up of seven buildings and in which some 35.000 people, that was destroyed after the terrorist attacks.

Lots of emotions, Reactions and memories are what you experience when you walk through this museum, where audiovisual and digital signage technologies are a fundamental element in the recreation of images, Videos, Projections,... of that tragic day and, By Extension, of many more after the attack and of its reconstruction to try to understand what happened.

Nearly a hundred multimedia installations make up the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; A complex task in conceptualization and engineering carried out for almost ten years to try to channel the pain, support and remember each of the victims who died in the attack.

Visitors enter the museum through a pavilion in whose atrium two original steel tridents have been placed, belonging to the façade of the north tower of the WTC, as well as the fuselage of one of the aircraft, while the main exhibition is located in the original foundations and below ground level of the complex.

The museum's AV and digital signage systems have been supplied by the multinational Electrosonic. Six large vertical screens, In a vertical configuration and staggered by a ramp that gives access to the museum, they show the first contents of the tragedy, which is complemented by the portion of a world map that is projected on each of the displays and that gives uniformity and cohesion to the set of audiovisual elements, along with sixteen ceiling-mounted speakers through which a voice-over recounts in several languages the moments leading up to the fateful day.

The Last Column

In the Foundation Hall area, better known as the Last Column (Last column), a piece of steel more than ten meters high belonging to the Twin Towers presides over the space, along with two 55 Inch, where visitors can scroll up and down the length of the column to view the names of the victims and the memories that appear next to them.

In addition, Eight interactive tables are set up to search in detail for the photograph of your loved one's face, whose photos are also displayed on the wall; Biographies and more images provided by their relatives.

On the three walls that surround visitors in this space, Seven projectors are responsible for displaying the video, Eleven minutes long, made by filmmaker Jim Whitaker over the past thirteen years, The result of a laborious selection of the images captured and selected by this professional from the environment in which the museum is currently located; From its ruined state, From cleaning to rebuilding.

Multidisciplinary spaces for reflection and education

The museum also has four education classrooms, equipped with digital whiteboards, Document cameras, videoconferencing systems, Etc. in which various safety-related subjects are explained to visitors and schoolchildren, The history and aftermath of the attacks,...

Electrosonic has also provided the audio-visual systems for the auditorium pavilion, A multidisciplinary space with 150 Seats, approximately, used to show 9/11 videos, related films and which is also used for holding conferences and events.

Another of the spaces that involve visitors in their tours are booths, equipped with screens, so that each person can record their own story, 9/11 testimony or remembrance, which is then projected onto a large-format digital screen.

The audiovisual systems distributed throughout the different rooms of the museum are managed from three service control rooms, Where the racks are housed. The auditorium has its own control room and Electrosonic technicians are in charge of maintaining the maintenance of the equipment and its correct operation on site.

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