Open Frame Screens & MIAS – Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
“We found the small screens with the buttons and mini speakers really easy to use. The MIAS speakers were also a fun addition, but not too obtrusive for the other displays, as some were on serious topics. It was all straightforward and the kit is flexible for being reused in our permanent museum displays, now that the exhibition is over.”
Kari Moodie, Collections Curator at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery shares the history of Inverness and the Scottish Highlands with visitors, from the Bronze Age and Medieval eras right up to the city in its contemporary form. Kari Moodie, Collections Curator at the Museum, goes on to elaborate on how our hardware was utilised for one of their temporary exhibits;
“We found the Open Frame screens with the buttons and mini speakers really easy to use – we had a woodworker make some sloped stands that could slot into our barrier system and this made them easy to install. We put together some simple presentations using photos, video and text in PowerPoint which we then converted to MP4 and installed in the screens. It was all straightforward and the kit is flexible for being reused in our permanent museum displays.”
They also used our Message In A Speaker audio players to create some looping as well as movement activated atmospheric sound;
“The MIAS were also easy to use and produced a good sound. We used one with a specially commissioned 12-minute musical score, on continuous loop, to accompany a rolling slideshow of images from the pandemic. The other was hidden in our ‘pharmacy’ display, set on PIR trigger so when visitors entered the space it played a series of noises including the bell on a shop door, rattling pills and ringing an old-fashioned till. It was a fun addition, but not too obtrusive for the other displays, as some were on serious topics.”
More Info
