Gljufrasteinn - Laxness museum
Gagarin created a multimedia presentation describing the life and work of the writer and Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. It was produced for Gljúfrasteinn Laxness museum, that is situated in the house where Laxness and his family lived for over 50 years. The house and living quarters are preserved as they were when Mrs. Auður Laxness donated them to the Icelandic nation.
For further information about the museum, visit it's website.
challenge
Halldor Laxness lived almost the entire twentieth centure, from 1902-1998. The challenge was to tell his story to meet both the needs of foreign visitors with little knowledge of the author and local visitors with in depth knowledge of Laxness. Visitors should be able to get acquainted with the author and view his work in context to the historical events that affected the writer as he affected his environment, through interactive multimedia presentation.
solution
Visitors access this engaging presentation illustrated with photographs and video footage on a touch-screen. The presentation contains a lot of enlightening information about the person, the publications and the major events of the 20th century in Icelandic and world history.
The material is presented in Gagarin’s Timeline application , providing the possibility of displaying events in a chronological order, enabling the users to visually link various events to time and thus gaining quicker overview and understanding. This way, visitors get the big picture of the entire subject, while being able to trigger more detailed information for any dynamic item of interest.
The timeline (Year by year) is the main interface for the content that presents the following categories: the person, the publications, Icelandic and world history. Numbers of photographic, moving images and videos are used in the multimedia presentation, narrated both in Icelandic, English and Swedish. This presentation is designed in a very dynamic framework for future up-dates in Flash from Macromedia.
This project was created in close co-operation with the employees of the Gljúfrasteinn Laxness museum and the author’s family. The scriptwriters were hired sub-contractors with great knowledge on the work and life of the writer.