Montana Heritage Center

Washington Way

Guests enter the museum through Washington Way at the entrance of the Homeland Gallery. Built in honor of American industrialist Dennis Washington, this cinematic passage surrounds visitors with coordinated projection, dvLED  recessed into the wall to appear as fissures, and an LED ceiling display that curves like a flowing river. The environment shifts color and sound to express various themes and begin the immersive museum experience.

All three LED fissures and the digital ceiling display are made from 2.5 mm BOLD™ Interior LED video technology. The fissures are approximately 1’8” wide and range from 9’9” tall to just under 13 feet. The curved ceiling display measures 7’3” wide by 12’6” long (880 x 1,530 pixels).

Mineshaft Experience

The dramatic Mineshaft Experience surrounds visitors with three LED walls and an LED ceiling and includes spatial audio and synchronized lighting to recreate underground life. The immersive technology also simulates a shaking floor and plunges guests into the reality of Montana’s mining history. The mineshaft’s main viewing screen is made from 1.2 mm BRILLIANT™ Interior video technology, while the ceiling and both angled sides employ a 2.5 mm pitch from SNA Displays’ BOLD™ Interior line. Combined, the Mineshaft Experience LED video walls cover approximately 175 square feet of digital canvas.

Moving Through Time

Another key exhibit contains a concave LED wall called Moving Through Time which uses visuals that move in sync with the gallery’s immersive soundscape to set the tone for the rest of the museum. The curved wall has an 8’10” radius, employs a 2.5 mm pitch, and measures approximately 4’6” tall x 22’4” wide (540 x 2,720). It processes a little under 1.5 million pixels.

Celebrating Montana

Inside the Sovereign Nations Tipi, motion sensors and touchpoints trigger origin tales and scenes of village life that play in sync with sound and lighting. The triangular screen on the exhibit’s back wall employs a 2.5 mm pitch to tell contemporary stories from Montana’s sovereign nations. Measuring approximately 8’10” tall x 11’10” wide at its base (1,080 x 1,440), the 2.5 mm BOLD™ Interior screen processes approximately 1.6 million pixels.

Digital Hallway Blades

In another of the museum's hallways is a series of exhibits that depict various scenes of Montana's history through 2-sided LED wedges so that the exhibits are viewable to visitors walking the hallway from either direction. Each of the 32 LED faces measures just over 5' tall and features 1.9 mm BRILLIANT™ Interior display technology.

In total, SNA Displays manufactured and supplied 42 display faces across 9 exhibits using 1.2, 1.9, and 2.5 mm interior LED video technology. Through this collaborative effort, visitors to the Montana Heritage Center experience pivotal moments in Montana’s history through immersive depictions of wildlife, mining tunnels, open roads, and more.

Partners

• Electrosonic: design and integration
• RLMG: content creation
• Smart Monkeys: system programming with ISAAC network management
• Pixera: large-scale visual playback
• Q-SYS: audio distribution and synchronization
• Christie Digital: projectors