Vauxhall Experience
Mad Systems & The Big Idea
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This exhibition is housed on Alfred Nobel’s “ wonderful sand desert” on the site of his British Dynamite Company.
Included as part of the exhibition dedicated to 1000 years of invention and a century of Nobel Laureates, is the History of Explosions.
Visitors are led to believe they are seated to view an ordinary video presentation, when they experience the surrounding floor lifting to form a wall around them. Then as the show continues they are shaken, rocked, tilted and jolted, as the story of explosives is told, and vision is synchronised with audio and special effects.
Maris Ensing, our Technical Director, programmed the movements of the motion-base using a computer.