Lighting design and show control company Rapenburg Plaza made a major contribution to the recent renovation of the Dutch Maritime Museum - Het Scheepvaartmuseum - in Amsterdam.
The company was responsible for all the media and lighting control, the major part of the audio-visual installation and also the entire technical content, including the lighting design for Voyage at Sea, an impressive maritime experience.
To control all three themed exhibitions, the seven object exhibitions and the two interactive exhibits, Rapenburg Plaza designed, installed and programmed a network based on ShowControl. This was built using Medialon software, KissBox interfaces and industrial network hardware and software.
Rapenburg Plaza itself was partly responsible for the ingenious lighting control system.
An open DMX infrastructure was fitted to low-voltage rails in all the museum's rooms and showcases, providing more than four thousand individually addressable spotlights with the correct data.
Rapenburg Plaza was also part of the creative and production team responsible for designing and building the Voyage at Sea. The company was in charge of lighting design, the AV and system design and the entire technical execution.
The experience itself is a 20 minute show, divided over five rooms, in which the public is taken on a journey through 500 years of Dutch maritime history.
In addition to Voyage at Sea, Rapenburg Plaza supplied and installed all the AV equipment for the seven object exhibitions, the See you in the Golden Age exhibition and Mijn.Expo, the world's largest iPad.
