Memory Pool and 18 Camps — Holocaust Museum LA
Memory Pool and 18 Camps, two permanent interactive installations in the opening galleries of Holocaust Museum LA (then the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust) in Los Angeles, California, opened with the museum's new Pan Pacific Park building on October 14, 2010; Potion designed and fabricated both interactives, working with interactive strategy consultant Variate Labs, in a building designed by Belzberg Architects.
| Venue | Holocaust Museum LA |
|---|---|
| Project type | New Exhibition |
| Status | Completed |
| Year completed | 2010 |
| Technologies | large-scale touch-sensitive tabletop surface, field of interactive screens, custom content management system |
Credits
| Firm | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Potion Design | Media Design & Software | Designed and fabricated the Memory Pool interactive table and the 18 Camps interactive display field for the museum's opening galleries |
| belzberg-architects | Architecture | Museum building architect |
| variate-labs | Technical Consulting / Owner's Representation | Interactive strategy consultant, worked with the museum, architect, AV consultant, and Potion to conceive and deliver the interactives |
Description
Memory Pool is a tabletop touchscreen installation displaying archival photographs and testimony of pre-war European Jewish families; 18 Camps is a field of interactive screens in the museum's Holocaust gallery, each screen devoted to a specific concentration camp. Potion also produced a companion handheld Spatial Audio Guide for the museum, not separately recorded here.