About Auckland War Memorial Museum
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira or simply Auckland Museum is one of New Zealand’s most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history and military history.
The present museum building was constructed in the 1920s in the neo-classicist style, and sits on a grassed plinth (the remains of a dormant volcano) in the Auckland Domain, a large public park close to the Auckland CBD.
Auckland Museum is regarded as one of the finest Museums in the Southern Hemisphere and is renowned for its unique collection of Maori and Pacific treasures.
The Project
Auckland War Memorial Museum required exhibitions and interactive displays to provide a seamless experience for all visitors. Auckland Museum team engaged with DM Acoustic for base design and hardware recommendations. The overlaying gallery requirements and fit-out were then handled in-house and procured with the help of AAE.
Q-SYS
Auckland War Memorial Museum is now controlled by Q-SYS. It runs audio while managing projectors, media players, video playback, and AV systems via dedicated user interfaces. Q-SYS is the ideal platform and solution for Auckland War Memorial Museum as it can provide all the aspects of an AVC system. Going forward, Auckland War Memorial Museum has standardised Q-SYS as the central AVC platform. Best of all, the Museum’s AV team are able to design and reconfigure to suit their needs.
Why Q-SYS
The initial scope called for a control platform to trigger the BrightSign media players and act as a paging system. This is where Q-SYS was introduced to the museum, as it allowed seamless AVC integration and provided a solution that could expand to encompass the museum’s growing requirements for the future.
Q-SYS Control
Q-SYS control ties together most of the museum’s paging system, exhibitions and interactive displays. Q-SYS is programmed to be intuitive and provide an easy solution for the in-house AV team to maintain and make custom changes to the ever-evolving exhibitions.
Speakers
Variety of speakers were used throughout Auckland War Memorial Museum including Q-SYS Ceiling Speakers. These speakers provided premium audio while being discreet, allowing a full immersive experience for visitors. Powered by Q-SYS, these speakers can be easily controlled via a touch panel or app on the phone.
Speakers
QSC Surface Mounted Loudspeakers were placed throughout the museum, as they are ideally suited for a wide variety of foreground and background sound reinforcement applications.
Amplifiers & Wireless Systems
Q-SYS CX-Q amplifier were the obvious choice for the museum. These amps sit within the Q-SYS Ecosystem and provide enough power and flexibility between 100V and low impedance to drive the numerous speakers within the museum.
Amplifiers & Wireless Systems
Shure Axient Digital was selected as the wireless mic system for special live events and presentations. Axient Digital was selected based on it’s exceptional audio quality paired with IT networkbased transport allowing it to integrate into Q-SYS seamlessly.
“Q-SYS was the solution that best fits the museum AV team’s mindset of maintaining and developing a system in-house. This gives us full control and the highest level of understanding for problem-solving. We now have a system that takes inputs from multiple, existing platforms and handles them all seamlessly.”
Liam Brown – AV Manager, Auckland Museum
Contacts
Client | Auckland Museum | 09 309 0443 | www.aucklandmuseum.com
Distributor | NSL Group Limited | ali@nsl.co.nz | 09 913 6212 | www.nsl.co.nz
Integrators | DM Acoustic | sales@dmacoustic.com | 0800 362 268 | www.dmacoustic.com
Integrators | AAE | info@aae.co.nz | 09 486 6324 | www.aae.co.nz