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EXPERIENTIAL MUSEUM Patna, ABV
Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been a visionary leader of a developing India. His ideas helped shape the future of the country. His achievements have been exemplary and should be appreciated. The Atal Smruti Udhyan is a sincere effort to pay tribute to the contribution of Atal Bihari Vajpayee towards his motherland.
The museum is a perfect blend of technology and art.The museum is basically divided into four parts - the Exhibition space, the Holographic Theatre, the Interactive Experience, and the Amphitheatre, opening out into a central landscape space.
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The Atal Smruti Udhyan is designed around the concept of a central courtyard with peripheral activities. The central courtyard is kept proportionately larger, balancing the buildings around it. The designed was achieved in three stages
Stage 1: Central Division of the site
Stage 2: Build structures on the periphery
Stage 3: The central structure is a statue of Atal-ji, with the amphitheatre at the central edge.
The journey of the visitor begins with the Exhibition space, which provides an understanding of the interesting works and events of Atal-ji's life.
Each exhibit is designed to be simple, but rich in information. The Amphitheatre is an enclosed theatre, for short performances and discussions.
The Interactive Experience is an Augmented Reality game, allowing visitors to test the knowledge acquired from the Exhibition space, and experience an interaction with Atal-ji himself. But the most awe-inspiring facet of the museum is the Holographic Theatre, with a holographic projection Atal-ji imparting words of wisdom to the visitors, and inspiring their sense of patriotism.
The Atal Smruti Udhyan is designed to not just be informative but also interactive. And the pinnacle of this interactivity is achieved in the Interactive Theatre. This Exhibit is divided in two sections. The first is an accurate reconstruction of the actual Prime Minister’s office, from Atal-ji’s tenure, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in his time and space.
But beyond a glass wall lies the technological magic - an interactive game that visitors can play, testing their knowledge of his life, and their understanding of the exhibits they have seen so far, in the form of a multiple-choice quiz session, which visitors participate in by picking their choice on a touch-screen, mounted on a podium in front of them.
The crowning glory of this interactive game is the presence of an animated Atal-ji, who participates in the experience, revealing truths and trivia about his own life, and conversing with visitors.
Visitors see themselves on a screen which mimics a mirror – except that in the mirror, Atal-ji is seated amidst them.
The experience of being seated right next to a beloved leader from the past is an experience few will soon forget.
The most awe-inspiring and technologically advanced aspect of the museum is undoubtedly the Holographic Projection Theatre.
The experience begins in a familiar theatre environment – a dark room with a stage.
But as the show begins, the normal-seeming stage is transformed by a holographic projection, as Atal Bihari Vajpayee appears, addressing the visitors with his words of wisdom, inspiring their sense of patriotism.
The experience of being in presence of the leader himself is indescribable, and incomparable. Behind this experience lies months of painstaking work.
It began with the filming of an actor of suitable physical appearance, playing the part of Atal-ji.
Then, his face was replaced with a complex, detailed Computer Generated 3D Model of Atal-ji’s real face, reconstructed based on an understanding of his facial structure and features, gleaned from innumerable pictures and videos of the leader himself.
Minute details of facial geometry and physiological movement have been accurately captured, making for an exhilaratingly realistic experience.
The end result is the experience of standing in a room, and witnessing a speech by a beloved leader, long departed, and hearing him recite one of his own poems, perfectly suited to the aim of inspiration.
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