Beneath us — Temporary Exhibition at the Historical Museum Basle
iart developed and realised the media installations for the temporary exhibition ‘Beneath us — Archaeology in Basle’ at the Historical Museum in Basle: projections on the main staircase and an interactive installation inside the exhibition.
The central part of the entrance staircase was covered with canvas, on which moving images were projected from the rear. In the entrance hall, life size figures were shown interacting on the streets outside the museum. From the staircase, visitors had a view down under the earth’s surface and could witness seven stories that told the history of different kinds of archaeological finds: a carriage lost one of its spokes, pottery shattered in an earthquake, a horseman accidentally cut off part of his tack with his sword. In addition, iart realised an interactive installation inside the exhibition. It consisted of a large projection (3 x 4 m) with an animated walking-tour through different places and life situations that visitors could control by means of the movable platform on which they stood. For example, by tilting the platform forward they caused a change of position in the animated tour and moved forward virtually on the given path.
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‘Beneath us — Archaeology in Basle’
Temporary Exhibition at the Historical Museum Basle, Duration: 26 September 2008 until 1 March 2009Customer
Historical Museum BasleServices iart
Concept, planning and realisation of exhibition mediaMedia
Interactive projection with pressure sensitive interface
Narrative projections on pylon and wallsProject Partners
Anex & Roth Visuelle Gestaltung, Exhibition design
tegoro solutions ag, Hardware realisationProject Duration
4 monthsExhibition Area
375 m2
Projection at the entrance with pedestrians and road traffic formed with dark moving silhouettes.
Projection with lucid moving silhouettes on the lower part of the staircase area.
Farmer as moving silhouette who will lose the point of his sickle.
Projected virtual tour, controlled interactively from the platform.