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Royal Naval Museum Sets Sail With Integrated Circles

Royal Naval Museum Sets Sail With Integrated Circles

Three major new exhibitions brought to life with advanced interactive displays and AV content

Audio visual systems specialists, Integrated Circles, has completed an 18-month project developing new interactive displays and attractions in three new exhibitions at Portsmouth’s Royal Naval Museum.

The historic venue’s three new exhibitions areas are Horatio Nelson: The Hero and The Man; The Sailing Navy; and The Victory Gallery, all of which have been brought to life with the inclusion of interactive displays and sound and light shows, designed and installed by Integrated Circles.

The Nelson exhibition combines interactive touchscreens and listening posts giving insights into Nelson’s life, with an AV projection of the Battle of Trafalgar. The Victory Gallery, where visitors can watch video footage featuring the restoration of HMS Victory, plus commentary from the current crew stationed aboard the ship, is another popular attraction at the Museum. The Sailing Navy exhibition gives visitors a flavour of life onboard ship during the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries.

The Museum has made extensive use of Integrated Circles’ VideoStores and Lighting Controllers, which give fast, high-quality repeat playback of programme content. Oral histories and narrative captions from the Museum’s listening posts are replayed on Integrated Circles SoundStores, which gives reliable, high-quality multilingual playback.

According to the Royal Naval Museum, the opening of the new exhibitions has resulted in a marked increase in visitor numbers, with significant growth in overseas visitors who benefit from the multilingual audio visual installations.

Chris Howard-Bailey, the Museum’s oral history curator said: “Working closely with Integrated Circles, we have made a key piece of British Naval history far more accessible and interesting to visitors, families and school parties alike. The new attractions are geared to a more technically literate audience, and with the deployment of multilingual displays we have broadened the Museum’s appeal to include new groups of visitors.”

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