Let’s get the obvious place out of the way, as a company based in Wales you can bet our products are used throughout the UK. This is an example of our popular Heavy Duty Handset in Auto-play mode (just pick it up to activate content) used in the famous Bletchley Park – the centre of the allied code-breaking efforts during World War II. 

Here’s our single-cup headphone used in Manchester Museum as part of the Memories of Partition exhibition. Visitors use objects on the table to trigger a selection of films by placing a series of character cards onto a designated slot.

Belfast’s City Hall’s east wing was completely transformed to house new exhibits chronicling the city’s history. Our Auto-Play Double-Cup Headphones were used here alongside video screens which play looping video content until the headphones are picked up from their unique hanger. This triggers a new video to play until the headphones are returned. 

Leaping over the Atlantic we find ourselves in New York City and one of the world’s most famous landmarks. Visited by millions of tourists each year, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most highly treasured monuments on the globe and has been welcoming people to America since its completion in 1886.

Just a short walk away at the nearby Statue of Liberty Museum you’ll find our Heavy Duty Handsets paired with several touchscreens displaying the museum’s Donor Registry, which presents a master listing of all persons and companies that have donated money to the museum. Our handsets – also featuring branding labels with the museum logo and a scannable QR code – provide audio while minimising noise pollution in a crowded environment.

Our unique Single Cup headset with magnetic hanger has made its way over to the New Mexico History Museum, where four have been installed. The museum is a key marker of the country’s history, which interprets and reflects on significant historical events. Our Armour Cable Headsets were used alongside button panels supplied by the museum themselves. Visitors simply select a track and listen via the headset.

Indiana State Museum opened an Abstract Art exhibition exploring and honouring the life of local born artist Felrath Hines. The exhibition design is based on Hines’ unique artistic style, with a prominent but restrained colour palette and simple shapes. The use of audio in the exhibition is quite unique with the audio points designed more as abstract art pieces themselves, offering further information via our MKII Armoured Cable Headphones but also adding to the overall visual theme.

Here in the Danish Welfare Museum visitors can peer through peepholes where video screens and our MKII Headphones provide insight to the cruel history of the horribly treated poor in Svendborg’s old Poorhouse.

A selection of tables at Frederiksberg Library are themed for different genres and authors. Each table has a built-in video screen with attached Heavy Duty Handset playing short films presented by local readers, local writers, librarians, experts and publishers with the hope they will inspire readers to try these different genres and authors.

The COMM Museum has made great use of a large amount of our AutoPlay Singlecup headphones. Exploring telecommunications of the past, present and future, the COMM Museum (as you can imagine) relies heavily on a great deal of audio visual interpretation across its four floors. The AutoPlay feature allows extremely simple use by visitors, who merely have to lift each headphone from their included magnetic hanger to activate content.

Photos © Rapenburg Plaza – DigiDaan

The Prinses Maxima Center in Utrecht is one of the nations top hospitals battling cancer in young children. Unlike the regular intimidating surroundings of most hospitals, the centre takes a different approach by creating a warm, vibrant environment. The centre is viewed by patients as more of a home; where children can play, discover and learn whilst having treatment.

Heijmerink Wagemakers were tasked with designing an audio seating area in the hospital. Created as a relaxation and learning zone the seating was developed to incorporate audio players and MKII headphones built into the unit by MAV Techniek.

Our AutoPlay Single Cup Headphones are used in Het Noordbrabants Museum’s Loving Vincent exhibition. Visitors use the headphones to listen to extracts from artists who worked on the film, explaining the process of painting the film’s frames by hand. Our armoured cable headphones automatically play content when removed from their unique magnetic hangers, which also ensure they are stored neatly when not in use.

The Natural History Museum of Maastricht in the Netherlands opened “Whale: Locality Maastricht”, a small exhibition that explores the evolution of whales utilising a number of touchscreen interactives accompanied with a pair of our MKII Armoured Cable Headphones.

The latest exhibition at Flekkefjord Museum introduces visitors to a timeline of the town via an impressive visual collection. Looking at everything from period clothing to an entire model boat. When delving into the previous 200 years large portions of content here are presented digitally via video screens as well as our Single Cup Headphones.

Kuben Museum and Archive is found in the Norwegian city of Arendal and is tasked with sharing the history and culture of the city. A new exhibition helps introduce visitors to Norwegian company OneCo, an Industrial Group with core activities in oil & gas, infrastructure, renewable energy and construction. OneCo strives to make it clear that not only is their driving ambition to be a good contributor in the development of said areas, but also that they are the best and quickest at it in the Nordic region. Various video installations in this new exhibition utilised our Single Cup Headphones.

Ørland Wetland Visitor Centre utilised a number of our products within a vibrant new exhibition. Visitors can learn about the area’s history via a selection of Through Panel Speakers or Single Cup Headphones, all activated with buttons and powered by our range of SoundClip solid state audio devices.

Norsk Teknisk Museum aims to inspire people to ask questions about what current medicine and health is — and what they can and should be. The Autoplay variant of our Single Cup Headphones help the museum to achieve this goal, inviting visitors to simply pick up the headphone and hold them to their ear in order to activate media. The clean installation of devices such as these really promotes the modern museum aesthetic and simplifies the user experience with no buttons or other triggers to clutter the space.

Educating visitors on Table Mountains National Park, audio for each installation in the PNGS exhibition at Ekocentrum is shared via handsets – offering a simplistic yet stylish option which complements the new exhibition whilst providing exceptional audio quality.

The Koidula Museum based in Pärnu, Estonia recently underwent renovations to house a brand new exhibition space. Compared to its older space, the new exhibition is far more contemporary, implementing elements of AV equipment through modern techniques. Our Single Cup Headphones were utilised throughout the new exhibition. Coupled with intriguing artefacts and installed within bespoke AV kiosks visitors are able to watch and listen to audio by picking up the headphones from their magnetic hangers.

Photos © Marie Rosalie Hanni

In 1953 the town of Ostend in Belgium was hit by a major flood which also affected parts of the Netherlands, England and Scotland. Located in the nNieuwpoort Flood Barrier exhibition is a bay of touch screen terminals each providing visitors with four different reports – from a weatherman, project engineer, the director of coastal infrastructure and a witness who experienced the flood at 1953. Visitors are able to choose which report to hear in 4 different languages, the audio of which is played via the heavy duty handsets.

The Tildonk Experience Centre presents World War I from a national and international perspective using historical accounts and significant dates during the war. Our Double Cup Armoured Cable Headphones paired with our SoundClip-8 devices create 12 different audio points. Each one tells a person’s story and how their lives were affected during World War I.

Photo (C) Rapenburg Plaza – Mike Bink

The newest addition to the Imaginarium in Auckland Museum is Haumanu (meaning to revive or restore health). Constructed from multiple trees to form one single massive tree, the full title of the exhibit asks ‘Will you breathe for me?’ starting a conversation about how human life is just an incredibly small piece to the vast living network that makes up the world.

As part of this exhibition you’ll find a set of our MKII Headphones and SoundClip-2’s either side of a large wooden bench, providing audio interpretation to visitors as they sit and reflect on the subject matter.

On the Kapiti Coast north of Wellington, New Zealand, is the most comprehensive privately owned collection of veteran and vintage motor vehicles in the entire Southern Hemisphere. Southward Car Museum utilises Single Cup Headphones as part of their Len Southward Legacy room, dedicated to the founder of the museum who owned the majority of the vehicles on display.