Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in London combines state-of-the-art interactive touch screen with its unparalleled collection of traditional and contemporary tennis memorabilia in order to explore the story of game and the Wimbledon Championships, from past to present, in a vibrant and entertaining way.
The exhibit design, by Mather & Company, does an excellent job of integrating audio-visual techniques. This helps enormously in the interpretation of the historical material, while also allowing the drama of today’s game to be fully exploited.
Inside the “on the circuit” exhibit, where both flat panel and projected images are presented. 
The entire AV system at the Wimbledon Museum works automatically. Each morning it can be started from a single key protected “start” button, and similarly at the end of the day a single button-press closes down all the AV based exhibits.
Touch screen displays are used widely, both as stand-alone exhibits, and, most effectively, as a means of interpreting tennis memorabilia, tennis equipment and tennis culture.
Electrosonic’s role included the design, construction and installation of the AV System, and the provision of on-call after sales service. Like all successful projects of this kind, Electrosonic was but one of a talented team that built the museum, and worked well with fellow team members, particularly the content providers (Centrescreen and English & Co) the designers (Mather & Co) and the exhibit fabricators (Galliford & Try and Scena).
Entrance to “on the circuit” exhibit.
One of the highlights of the museum is “John McEnroe Live”. Here John McEnroe appears in a reconstruction of the Gentlemen’s Dressing Room of the 1980s, and relates stories conveying the drama of the Wimbledon Championships. He appears life size, and wanders round the room, finding his own locker, and even seems to walk behind the dressing room furniture.
The convincing illusion is achieved by Pepper’s Ghost – but to be convincing the video image that is superimposed on the “real” set must be of high quality. McEnroe was filmed in High Definition in a New York studio with a black mock-up of the set to ensure his movements fitted the actual set. Playback is via an Electrosonic MS9200 High Definition video player.
“Court on Camera” presents a 200° image of Centre Court play, combined with exciting computer graphic images revealing the science of Tennis.