AV Software and POS Tablets – Hallaton Helmet

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The tablets and Lightbox Lite software allowed for the display of digital galleries providing visitors with an insight to the archeological processes involved in the artefacts discovery and conservation, as well as allowing a closer look at these items while they remained safe within display cabinets or preserved within the museum’s archives.

Harborough is a historic market town that was the centre of industry and trade between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The Harborough Museum showcases and celebrates this long history as well as presents a myriad of interesting artefacts from the surrounding area.

15 Inch POS Tablet with Lightbox Lite in use at Hallaton Helmet (portrait)

Arguably their flagship exhibition is the ‘Hallaton Treasure’, one of the most important Iron Age discoveries in Britain. The Treasure consists of over 5000 coins, pottery, various mysterious offerings and what has become the centrepiece of the collection the ‘Hallaton Helmet’, a very unique 1st century Roman cavalry officers helmet, which would have been worn by somebody of high status.

RFA Design were tasked with updating the Treasure Gallery (where the finds and helmet are displayed) seeking to better leverage AV and multi-media content in interpretation of the items. We were in turn commissioned to provide both hardware and software solutions for the Hallaton Helmet redisplay, with two 15″ Tablets running Lightbox Lite as well as updating two existing touchscreen units with our Lightbox 3 – Collections software.

The tablets and Lightbox Lite software allowed for the display of digital galleries providing visitors with an insight to the archeological processes involved in the artefacts discovery and conservation, as well as allowing a closer look at these items while they remained safe within display cabinets or preserved within the museum’s archives. We were tasked with building the Lightbox Lite interactives from multi-media supplied by the client team and branding direction from RFA design. You can see the software in action below;

Two existing 22″ touchscreens presented an aging flash-based interactive to visitors, we were tasked with extracting the original multi-media components from this interactive and then rebuilding it within our Lightbox 3 Collections software. You can see the results below;