A Changing Nation
National Museums of Scotland

moving image

Spiral produced eight videos for the Scotland: A Changing Nation gallery. The film One Nation, Five Million Voices presents a cross-section of people giving their personal views on what it means to be Scottish, or live and work in Scotland. The film features a people from all across Scotland and from all walks of life, as well as some Scottish celebrities, musicians and actors. Other videos for the gallery include programmes about Ravenscraig, Entertainment, Housing, Emigration and Shipbuilding.

Media Wall
The Guardian

moving image, interactive

We designed and built two large screen software installations for Guardian News & Media Ltd. The software displays media from live feeds that include RSS news, video and photographs from the Picture Desk. We also built a CMS back-end that allow authorised Guardian staff to customise the two media players from any desktop computer.

John Murray Archive
National Library of Scotland

moving image, interactive

Windows on the World is a ten plasma screen historical animation that plays out on five windows throughout the exhibition. There are nine character interactives; databases of documents, text, audio and animations that relate to key writers featured in the archive. The Publishing Table is an interactive game projected onto a circular table top.

Art In Focus
Tate Modern

moving image, interactive

The Art In Focus touchscreen programmes introduce audiences to four art movements - Surrealism, Modernism, Cubism and Minimalism. Spiral's solution includes an animated introduction to each of the movements (pictured) as well as games and activities, a timeline, a mini database of images and text and a quiz.

Energy Infozone
Science Museum

game, interactive, website

Energy Infozone runs on kiosks in the Science Museum's Energy Gallery and on the web. The project won an IVCA Gold Award for Multimedia/Web and the judges' citation said: "Engaging and a great example of education through entertainment. Beautifully simple whilst offering much."

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Play Smartarse

HCM Exhibition
Household Cavalry Museum

moving image

Spiral were commissioned to make a series of films for the museum's redisplay using archive film, specially shot new material, graphics and photographs. There is also an interactive that has three parts; a quiz about horses, a ceremonial dressing game and a database on the regiment.

Harnessing Energy
Science Museum

interactive

Harnessing Energy is a two-player dance game that explores sources of energy. Two versions of the game are installed in the Science Museum's Energy Infozone gallery.

Virtual Curator
Tate Modern

interactive

This is a six-player game played over nine monitors. The game consists of a series of quick-fire rounds, each one about a particular artwork and artist. The game has proved immensely popular with visitors and is rarely idle.

Multiplayer Games
Science of Survival

interactive

Spiral produced two games for the Science of Survival touring exhibition. The fast-paced Future Drink game where visitors discover some of the places we might get more water in the year 2050 and a 3D driving game, Future Journey which explores some new vehicle fuels for the future including plants, electricity and hydrogen.

Know Your Singapore
Singapore City Gallery

moving image, interactive

Know Your Singapore was produced for Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority, working with UK design consultancy HKD. Designed primarily for school groups there are twenty voting stations where children test their knowledge of Singapore's land use, heritage, nature reserves and other intriguing facts in a fun, interactive quiz show hosted by Gurmit Singh (one of Singapore's leading comedic actors).

Unlocking the Past
Islington Museum

website

Spiral produced this interactive map based website and kiosk for Islington Museum. Users can access information and pictures through a series of maps and explore famous people, places and objects as well as Islington’s bomb sites and trivia. A version of the website runs in the Islington Museum on a secure browser.

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Six Films
The Dock Museum

moving image

Spiral produced six short films for the Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness. These are on permanent display in a cinema at the museum. Titles include: Above and Beyond, Life at the Yard, It's Grim Up North, Famous Launches, Furness Railway and Furness Abbey.

Water for All
Singapore Water Authority

moving image

This three screen videowall was produced for an exhibition about saving water for Singapore's Water Authority.

Design a Poster
London Transport Museum

game, website

Spiral produced this ‘Design a Poster’ activity for the London Transport Museum’s website. Users choose elements from thumbnail menus and using a set of tools design, layout, colour, add captions, choose typeface, flip, rotate images and shapes. Their completed design is added to a gallery for other users to view. Click the link below to try it (the save function is disabled on this version).

Try it out here

Valentines Mansion
Redbridge Borough Council

website

This website was produced for the recently restored Valentines Mansion. Behind it is a simple content management system that allows curators to update content.

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Son et Lumière
Down County Museum

moving image, interactive

This a three screen son et lumière show projected onto the walls of Down County Gaol. The story of the gaol is told in six dramatic episodes. Spiral produced two interactive databases that work both in the gallery and online. The sites database allows users to identify sites of interest in Down County by selecting regions on a zoomable map. The object database explores objects from the museum's collections. Both interactives are easily updateable by curators.

Ice Age to the Vikings
Rheged

moving image

From the Ice Age to the Vikings is a video installation telling the story of Cumbria. High resolution moving images are projected down onto a white relief map of Cumbria and there are two supporting screens showing additional content.

Materials Challenge
Science Museum

game

A game to test your knowledge of materials and their uses.

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The Singing Playground
Museum of Childhood

website

This interactive supplements a large Dan Jones painting that hangs in the V&A’s Museum of Childhood Museum in Bethnal Green. The painting illustrates nursery rhymes and songs from all around the world. In the interactive users can pan and zoom around a virtual painting to find audio clips of the songs together with lyrics, details from the painting and further information.

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Moving Toys
Museum of Childhood

game

Moving Toys was a project for both kiosks and the web. It allows users to choose from a mini database of 40 ‘moving’ toys to see them in action and find out how they work. Spiral also produced a Build a Toy game where users can design a toy from a menu of parts and then test their skills in the toy maze activity. (You can play Build a Toy and watch the Moving Toys by clicking the link below and finding them on the menu).

View activities online

Millennium Seed Bank
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

moving image

A film showing the work being done at the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst Place where seeds are dried and stored in a vault to secure their survival. Spiral's production uses specially filmed sequences, archive material form the BBC, graphics and special effects to tell MSB's dramatic story.

Spaceport
Mersey Travel

moving image, interactive

Spiral produced twelve videos and three computer interactives for this leisure attraction at the Wirral waterfront. The work included creating a 3D flight into space which was projected across nine monitors, and a four projector display that explores the origins of the universe.

Duckboy in Nanoland
Science Museum

game

Duckboy in Nanoland is a series of interactive games that show what life is like in a nano universe. When things get really, really small science changes and the 'normal' rules of physics don't apply.

Play Duckboy in Nanoland online

Climate Change
Science Museum

game

Spiral produced two games for Antenna's Climate Change exhibition. Click on the link below to play the Carbon Lifestyles game.

Play the Carbon Lifestyles game

The Commonwealth
Empire Museum

moving image, interactive, website

Spiral produced eleven videos and five computer interactives for this permanent exhibition. We also produced an interactive Empire Map and timeline of the Commonwealth and this can be viewed by clicking the link below.

Launch the Empire Map interactive

Networks Game
24 Hour Museum

game

Originally a 4-player game produced for ThinkTank, the Networks game was redesigned as an online single player game for the 24 Hour Museum. The game is designed to let the user explore a Victorian transport network and discover the issues associated with transporting goods from city to city. Click the link below to play.

Play the game online

Cybercrime
Science Museum

game

Spiral produced a series of games about computer crime for the Science Museum's Antenna gallery. The games appeared both online and in the gallery. Click the link to play.

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Locomotion
NRM

moving image, game, interactive

Spiral produced seven interactives and one video for the National Railway Museum at Shildon. Click below to play the occupations game.

Play the What's My Job game

Origins
The Forum, Norwich

interactive

Spiral produced eight interactives for Norfolk and Norwich's millennium project, The Forum. Five of the programmes were interactive timelines looking at Norwich through the ages. Spiral's design uses an on-screen skateboarder character who visitors control to explore Norwich and see what is was like when the Romans, the Saxons, Danes, Normans and Dutch were there. Another programme, Know What I Mean helps visitors understand Norfolk dialects by playing a series of radio quiz style games.

Dress of the Year
Museum of Costume

game

This game for the Museum of Costume in Bath appears both in gallery and on their website.

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Holocaust Database
Imperial War Museum

interactive

This is a database programme designed to be viewed at the end of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. The programme has four main themes – What was the Holocaust? Who were the victims? Country by Country and What could be done to help? The programme was also adapted for use in schools as a CD-Rom.

Art Gallery & Museum
Kelvingrove

moving image, interactive

Spiral produced over fifty multimedia exhibits for the new permanent galleries at Kelvingrove. These include games, interactive storybooks, audio, videos and a collections database. Spiral worked closely with designers Event Communications and the curatorial team at Kelvingrove.

Birmingham Stories
Thinktank

website

This website explores stories about Birmingham's past and the inventions that changed people's lives. The curatorial team at Thinktank maintain the website and update content using a simple backend system designed by Spiral.

Visit the Birmingham Stories website

Made for Us
Hull Museums

interactive, website

Spiral produced this website and kiosk that features highlights from Hull Museum's object collection. Users can access objects through a series of options - via an interactive map, via a timeline, through manufacturing process or via a quiz or top trumps style game. A version of the website also runs in the museum.

Visit the Learning Zone website

White Lodge Museum
The Royal Ballet School

moving image, website

Spiral produced ten videos, an interactive database and timeline, and the website for this exhibition at the Royal Ballet School.

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Making History
Society of Antiquaries of London

website

Making History: Antiquaries in Britain explores the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London from its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the present day. Spiral produced the website and kiosk to accompany the exhibition.

Visit the Making History website