The projection system, which helped the previous exhibition, ,I>First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army win the Museums & Heritage 2008 Award for Temporary or Touring Exhibition, was specifically designed to be reconfigurable - a technological 'first' both for the UK and the British Museum - thus maximising the Museum's investment in technology.
It features an array of 10 Barco HD Icon H250 projectors, arranged to project onto a variety of screens in different formats around the Round Reading Room's circumference - a space whose ornate domed roof was itself originally inspired by one of Hadrian's most iconic buildings, the Pantheon in Rome.
Eleven Dataton Watchout PC packages provide projection control and edge blending, enabling seamless ultra-wide-screen projections to be achieved.
The exhibition incorporates recent scholarship and the latest spectacular archaeological discoveries, and features a host of supreme works of Roman art, most of which have never previously been seen under one roof - including the first-ever public display of a recently-excavated colossus of Hadrian.
(Jim Evans)
