Project Overview
Interactive Video Wall Brings History to Life for Visitors
As soon as they enter the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library, visitors are likely to feel they’re in the presence of, and perhaps even part of history. This owes to a video wall from Planar Systems that showcases traditional artwork in a unique, interactive manner, creating a memorable experience for visitors to the iconic facility.
Adjacent to the museum’s admission area, the Clarity™ Matrix MX55 LCD Video Wall depicts a stationary image of a painting called ‘Pulling Down the Statue of King George III,’ by the artist Johannes Adam Simon Oertel. When even a small group of visitors stands in front of the video wall, sounds can be heard and the image then begins to move. As more people gather, the crowd depicted in the painting comes to life and pulls on a rope, bringing the King George statue to the ground in a cloud of dust and amid sounds of cheering and dogs barking.
