The £26 million Great North Museum brings together collections from four separate exhibition spaces in Newcastle, placing everything from a planetarium and life-size replica Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton to a large-scale model of Hadrian’s Wall, all under one (very large) roof. To add a digital component to the already ground-breaking museum space, they needed a set of interactives and audiovisual experiences, as diverse as the collections themselves. We worked with them to provide fifteen interactives, four large-scale animations, three videos and three audio presentations ranging from an interactive guide to animals,  a touch-surface map, an animated Egyptian frieze and even a sound and light journey into the afterlife.

We worked closely with exhibition designers Casson Mann and Nick Bell Design to ensure each piece would reflect the look and feel of each space, and meet their exceptionally high production values. The complex undertaking included creating or licensing numerous images, animations, video and audio elements, programming all the interactives, and installing each element on highly specific hardware such as high-resolution touchscreens, 50" monitors and large touch-membrane tables.

The Great North Museum installations won the BIMA Award in the 'Offline: Kiosk, Installation or On-Site Application' category in 2009.