13 Projects from 2017 That Showcase the Power of AV Integration
SPAM Museum Feeds Visitors Tons of AV Fun
Electrosonic, CI’s 2014 Integrator of the Year, was the AV mind behind the new 14,000-square-foot interactive SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn. Electrosonic “worked closely with fabricator Universal Services Associates, Inc. (USA) to provide interactive AV support for the museum’s fun and informative exhibits,” according to their press release. Visitors begin their tour of the SPAM Museum in a circular area where columns of SPAM product cans form a colonnade around Apple iPad Air 2 displaying SPAM brand quizzes, a 95-inch Samsung display showing TV clips and multiple interactive counters composed of Planar touchscreens offering recipes ready to share.
Corporate videos are displayed on 42-and 46-inch NEC LCD monitors in portrait and landscape modes, with directional Panphonics sound shower speakers containing the sound in the busy area. Visitors can learn the Hormel family history on a BrightSign media player.
International exhibits feature numerous Planar touchscreens with country-specific video content: The U.K. offers a Monty Python-inspired Spamalot game while South Korea heats up a wok of sizzling SPAM products activated by a Museum Technology presence detector.
Visitors can also use two Planar touchscreens to decorate a Philippine Jeepney bus and email their designs home. An interactive global map, on a 70-inch ELO display, showcases all the countries that embrace SPAM products in their diets.
