Sioux City Public Museum

Sioux City, IA

How can a city’s past give a boost to its future?

Sioux City’s unusually vivid history inspired us to create some novel multimedia experiences. From the time they enter the doors, visitors embark on a fanciful and enlightening adventure into the city’s booms and busts, disasters and triumphs. The museum has been a huge draw for locals and tourists, a showplace that everyone continues to be proud of.

Designer

Hilferty & Associates

Size

12,000 sq. ft.

Components

Roles

Media Master Planning
Media Design
Production
A/V System Design
Tech Systems Oversight
Installation

Featured Components

Spirit of Sioux City

Sioux City’s spectacular 19th-century corn palaces inspired this immersive theater. A lively and lighthearted retelling of the city’s rich history plays out on three large, arched screens.

Disaster Wall

On the facade of a fire-ravaged building, dramatic stories of fires, floods, and a historic plane wreck unfold.

Turn Back Time

Visitors travel through time and space using this innovative, steampunk-themed, interactive map of Sioux City.

Attic Ghosts

History definitely does not need to be dull – especially if ghosts get to tell their own stories. Two apparitions appear mysteriously in an attic mirror to recount their versions of events in Sioux City’s past.

Innovation I-Wall

Who knew that Gateway Computers started in Sioux City or that pre-packaged meat did too? In this quirky, award-winning interactive, visitors explore two home-grown businesses that made it big.

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