Electrosonic provides AV equipment for the new Exhibition of the Museum of Tolerance

The Appeasement is the last permanent exhibition of this cultural center of Los Angeles that has as its protagonist element a large interactive map that shows the advance of the troops during World War II. An installation supported by a Panasonic PT-DZ870LK projector and accompanied by a 70 inches of Planar and NEC monitors of 21.

The Museum of Tolerance (MOT – Museum of Tolerance) was inaugurated in 1993 in Los Angeles (California) with a theme focused on the study of racism, prejudice and xenophobia with special emphasis on the Holocaust in addition to other crimes against humanity.

One of the latest exhibitions he has launched is The Appeasement and, as in the rest of the museum, multimedia technology has been one of its main premises. A permanent exhibition in which he has played a key role Electrosonic, taking care of the design and installation of the AV equipment.
This dynamic multimedia presentation uses texts, archival images of speeches and interactive media exploring the political decisions made by the Allies in the years leading up to World War II.

The key element of this exhibition is a giant relief map of Europe that extends a curved wall and is accompanied by touch monitors.. “An ultra-short-range projector Panasonic PT-DZ870LK brings the map to life with images showing the progression of the war and highlighting how territories and borders were transformed when World War II got underway and armies began to advance.", explains Steve Calver, Electrosonic project manager.

The projector is mounted on the ceiling just over half a meter away from the map, which is covered with a slightly reflective projection surface. A server 7thSense is responsible for managing the images on the map that was created by Cortina Productions. A Dakota ceiling speaker sits mounted above the map to provide a directed audio field.

“Videos that appear and disappear, moving arrows, armies marching... The screen is in constant motion. With the ultra-short-range projector, you get a great projected image so people can stand and visualize the images much closer than with traditional projection lenses. In this specific application, a projector was a less expensive option and with more attractive results than if a Led videowall had been used", comments Calver.

Near this map has been installed a multi-touch screen of 70 inches of planar, that allows up to four users to interact with it simultaneously to deepen and learn more about the topic. Next to the screen there are headphones available that allow you to listen to the specific content that is being viewed.

For the programming of this show, Electrosonic incorporated the Escan control software without interrupting the existing playback for the other exhibitions in the main space. likewise, he was also in charge of replacing the 24 CRT monitors with museum card reader by LCD systems Nec of 21,5 Inch.

Upon entering the museum, the visitor receives a card with the passport photo of a person whose life was changed by the events of the Holocaust. Elsewhere, the card provides additional information about that person as the war progressed and a hard copy at the end of the visit.

In the AV equipment of this exhibition have also been used players of BrightSign and extenders of Extron.

Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign has been the architect, while Cortina Productions has been commissioned to produce the video and interactive images and Coastal is the general contractor for the new exhibition.. The museum has a service contract with Electronic for technical maintenance.

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