Choctaw Cultural Center

Monadnock worked closely with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to create multimedia experiences that tell the tribe’s story in their own words and convey their culture and worldview.

Designer
Design Division, Inc.
Components
15
Location
Durant, OK, USA
Size
24,500 sq. ft.
Roles

Media Master Planning

Exhibit Design Collaboration

Media Experience Design & Production

Digital Interactive Design & Development

Tech Systems Design & Oversight

Immersive Theater Design

Often the Native American story is documented by non-tribal members. This is the first time in our history that we get to tell our story from our perspective.
– Chief Gary Batton

Moundville Model

Multimedia Experience

Complex projections animate both a model of Moundville and a mural on the wall above it. Three interactive stations and a show mode combine to chronicle the story of Moundville’s people, and how their culture lives on in the Choctaw and other tribes today.

Multi-User Interactive Projection Mapping 3D Modeling 3D Scanning

We Are Choctaw

Orientation Theater

Projection-mapped on a basket-weave texture, this program presents a compelling portrait of a contemporary tribe that maintains their cultural traditions and worldview.

Projection Mapping Theater Design 3D Modeling

Hickory Grove

Digital Interactive

Three AR stations allow visitors to see through a Choctaw lens to explore the species of their Mississippi homeland.

3D Scanning 3D Modeling Multi-User Interactive AR Interactive
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Creation Stories

Multimedia Experience

Shadows cast by sculptures come to life to tell three different origin stories of the Choctaw Tribe.

Projection Mapping Animation Theatrical Effects

Treaty Theater

Immersive Theater

To recount the history of the Choctaw Nation's many treaties with the United States, we created a space that could transform from a meeting room in the Capitol to the forests of Mississippi.

Theatrical Effects Theater Design Projection Mapping