Bowen Technovation at the New Indiana State Museum.

Bowen Technovation of Indianapolis accepted contracts to design, provide, and install innovative audio/visual systems and audio/video productions for exhibits in the new 230,000 square foot Indiana State Museum. The total budget for the new museum was $105 million. $35 million was dedicated to exhibits, exhibit electronics, and exhibit construction.

Bowen staff worked on contract in a Design Phase through the year 2001 with world-renown museum exhibit designer Ralph Applebaum and Associates of Manhattan and Electrosonic Systems, Inc. of Toronto in designing the most progressive interactive audio and video systems ever seen Indiana.

The Bowen Project Team integrated these complex systems to work with incredible new audio and video programs produced by producers from New York, Virginia, and Indiana. Bowen Technovation was also selected as one of these content producers.

 

"My challenge to the project team to seek out Indiana talent to fashion our new museum resulted in the discovery of Bowen Productions, in our own backyard. The brilliant and practical leadership that the Bowen Group provided in the technology design and the promise of an ongoing partnership, will truly be a major factor in the success of the Indiana State Museum into the future. Bowen Productions continues to be a national player in the world of cutting edge technology design and we feel fortunate to have them on our team."

Susan Williams
Executive Director, Indiana State Office Building Commission

 

 

Fully functional demos and mock-ups of these exhibits were set up at the Bowen Technovation R&D facility in Indianapolis and were thoroughly tested before being integrated in the museum.

Audio and video productions for several of the exhibits were produced at the Bowen Technovation Digital Audio and Video Production facility.

A partial list of the systems provided by the Bowen team include:

26 each High Resolution Video Projectors (Barco and Fujitsu, Draper and  Premier Mounts)
24 each Bowen ExhibitFX Digital Video Servers
16 channels of Electrosonic Digital Video Servers
14 each Flat Panel Plasma Video Screens (Pioneer and Fujitsu)

95 each 18”, 15” and 10” Flat Panel Video/Touch Screens (National Display and IDE)
120 channels of computer controlled digital audio (Mackie, Rane, Crown, Alcorn McBride, KlipschPro, Tannoy, Dakota Audio, Magenta, IMP, RDL, QSC)
98 each Interactive Computer Servers (IBM, SAG)
Two Broadcast Quality A/V Control Rooms with KVM Switch and Monitoring Systems (BlackBox, Magenta, Middle Atlantic, Panasonic, ADC)

"The Foundation's board and donors have always been interested in seeing that the funds raised for this project are used to secure designers, vendors and contractors that provide a mix of homegrown talent and national reputation. It turns out that in Bowen Productions, right here in Indianapolis, we had both. In turn, Bowen has helped us identify a variety of additional firms around the state that were good fits to participate in this project -- and many have done so, not only as vendors, but as corporate donors. We're delighted that we have the opportunity for an on-going relationship with a firm that is so accessible."

Ron Newlin, Executive Director, Indiana State Museum Foundation

 

Bowen Technovation has also recently completed other museum/exhibit projects including:

  • Muhammad Ali Center - Louisville, KY
  • The Medal of Honor Museum -
    Patriot's Point, SC on the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier
  • The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center -
    Indianola, MS
  • The National Museum of the Pacific War - Fredericksburg, TX


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For more info about and pictures of about this and other special venue projects, phone or e-mail:

Diana Bowen

Bowen Technovation

317-863-0525, 317-863-0531 fax

 

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