Experimental and immersive archeology exhibition at the San Isidro Museum

The specialists Avanzia and Ypunto Ending have created an immersive experience for the museum visitor with visual systems, interactive content, virtual reality and videomapping.

He San Isidro Museum. The origins of Madrid offers a journey through the history of this city, from Prehistory to the establishment of the Court, through different rooms, like that of San Isidro, the Renaissance Courtyard, the Archeobotanical Garden and the Visitable Warehouse, equipped with visualization and projection mapping technologies, since its inauguration last year after seven years closed.

After recently celebrating the festival of the patron saint of Madrid, This museum space has participated in International Museum Day, that took place the past 18 y 19 of May with the motto of Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new audiences, where visitors have been able to learn about the technological project carried out by Advance, experts in audiovisual technology and experience marketing, con Ypunto Ending, specialized in production, direction and technical development in the field of museography.

This project offers an immersive experience to the visitor, in which creativity is combined with technology, with an experimental archeology exhibition on ceramic decoration and a recreation of the Roman army, through visualization systems and interactive content, that take you into your journey as if you were actually walking through a Neolithic settlement or along Roman roads.

To achieve this effect, These companies have made interactive productions using different technologies, such as 3D recognition and virtual reality. Through an application that detects the user's movement and moves the content accordingly, have managed to create the effect of 'looking through a window'’ through facial and eye recognition.

This technology allows the visitor to freely navigate the spaces created, such as an extraction well from the flint mines of Casa Montero and the pre-Roman site area of ​​La Gavia hill, being able to observe the transformation of the landscape from its original time to the present day.

Another interactive production of this project is the virtual visit to a Roman villa with virtual reality technology., so that the visitor can tour the Town of Madrid using a touch screen placed in front of a Roman mosaic, on which information corresponding to the selected area also appears. In the next room of the museum, A 19” touch screen has also been installed that allows for an interactive tour of the Roman roads..

Besides, The interior of the San Isidro Museum also houses the archaeological remains of the Monastery of San Jerónimo el Real, found when carrying out the works in the National Prado Museum and transferred to the Museum of the Origins of Madrid. About this unique piece, Avanzi has created video mapping, about five minutes long, that projects the reconstruction of the cloister with virtual and real elements.

The videomapping technique is also used in the project by Avanzia and Ypunto Ending to produce another panoramic audiovisual piece about the tombs found in the next room of the museum..

In addition to these interactive productions, Ten audiovisual pieces have been made that complement those on display., de unos dos minutos de duración, on topics such as textile technology and ceramics, funeral rituals, etc; as well as an animated audiovisual production of a Neolithic settlement where the homes and main agricultural activities stand out..