The Kentucky Derby Museum welcomes more than 200,000 visitors each year, giving them a first-hand look at the event for which Loiusville, Kentucky is known worldwide. The museum uses state-of-the-art video wall technology to literally put visitors face-to-face with a field of horses and jockeys as they jolt out of the starting gate and thunder toward the first turn in the fabled race. No sooner has one entered the museum through an actual starting gate then they’re in front of a massive video wall, nearly 250 square feet in size, with almost life-like video footage of a race headed directly towards them at break-neck speed.
The awe-inspiring video spectacle owes its realism to Planar Systems, which provided the innovative Clarity™ Matrix LCD Video Wall System. 16 of Planar’s Clarity Matrix LCD displays comprise the video wall, each 46” in size arranged edge-to-edge in a four-wide-by-four-high (4x4) configuration. Clarity Matrix was specified by Design and Production, Lic. (Lorton, Va.), which also installed it in the new exhibit created by the San Francisco office of another long-term museum partner, Gallagher & Associates. Clarity Matric replaced a three-screen rear projection system that had been seen by the museum staff as outdated, costly to maintain, and underperforming in the high ambient light conditions of the museum’s entrance area.
The museum staff calls Planar’s Clarity Matrix LCD Video Wall a Winner with its key factors including: minimal footprint, reliability, and unique design help the museum create a memorable Kentucky Derby experience.
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