Interactive Museum Exhibits
Interactive museum exhibits are a wonderful way to draw visitors into an experience to truly enjoy learning.
Golden Multimedia specializes in creating touchscreen kiosks and other interactive exhibits that convey educational content in a fun and exciting way. Our interfaces are easy to understand, with animation, sound effects and video for an enjoyable and immersive experience for all ages.
Recent Projects:
Yale University
Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Travels in the Great Tree of Life"
Interactive touchscreen kiosks, morphing video, and Audio/Video installation
In the interactive touchscreen game, your mission is to help a friendly cat find its home in the branches of the tree of life, learning about the inter-relatedness of species along the way. This project includes 3D modeling and animation, Flash video and animaton, custom musical scoring, sound effects, and hardware design and installation.
Other services for this exhibit included compositing an HD morphing video, and installation of the Audio/Video equipment.
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Yale University
Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Our Dynamic Planet" Interactive Touchscreen Kiosk
See current weather patterns sweeping across the globe, earthquakes that happened this week, or watch the continents coming together to show the Earth from 300 million years ago. Located in the new "Hall of Minerals, Earth, and Space", this touchscreen interface has eleven sections of global weather and plate tectonic information, as displayed through the 24" acrylic "Magic Planet" globe (produced by Global Imagination). This project included Flash video, animation, digital sound recording, video editing, and hardware installation.
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Yale University
Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Torosaurus Project" Interactive
Touchscreen Kiosk
With video, pictures, and narration, this kiosk details the efforts of dedicated workers and volunteers who created the awe-inspiring Torosaurus statue in front of the museum. This project included Flash video, animation, digital sound recording, and hardware design / installation.
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Yale University
Peabody Museum of Natural History
"Human Origins" Interactive Touchscreen Kiosks
Ever wonder what the difference is between modern humans and early hominids? These touchscreens, guided by video and narration, explore 15 different hominids (like Neanderthals and Australopithecus afarensis) and allow you to compare and rotate skulls side by side, and with "Google Earth" animations, see the countries where they were discovered. This project includes Flash video, animation, digital sound recording, hardware design / installation, and Google Earth integration.
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Currently in Development:
Yale University
Peabody Museum of Natural History
"The Age of Reptiles - Rudolf Zallinger" Interactive Touchscreen Kiosks
These interactive touchscreens will allow visitors to explore Rudy Zallinger's famous dinosaur mural - "The Age of Reptiles". Curators from the museum will give information about each of the plant and animal species depicted in the mural, as well as historic and artistic information about Rudy Zallinger and the mural itself. This project includes Flash HD video, animation, sound effects, and hardware design and installation.
Opening mid 2008.