When you build a $340 dazzling building
The developer of the new facility decided that the million Royal Alberta Museum in downtown Edmonton, like its predecessors, had erected the aradside billboard, and the ads used to promote the exhibition would not cut it.
Instead, the museum got a second one.
Nearly 6 metres high, wrapped around the southwest corner, 20 metres wide.
Technicians started testing the screen last week so that passers-by at 103 A Avenue can preview their eyes --
Cycle through screen saver to capture outdoor screenstyle, high-
Fireworks, Earth, cloudy resolution video clip-
The Sky, the stars and the waves.
When the museum opens at the end of 2017, the screen will display the latest exhibits and share what's going on inside and interesting facts about Alberta.
It was also designed to be a hightech come-
On the busy 103A Avenue, this is the traditional north edge of the city center.
Tom Thurston, Alberta's director of cultural capital development, said: "It will be a flame for moths to attract them into the museum . ".
"It certainly means that this is the main entry and the information shown above will give them a reason why they want to come in.
The old Royal Alberta Museum used portable signs and static billboards to advertise the exhibition.
"It's expensive to change them, besides not being very beautiful --
Every time you want to build a new image, the billboard will cost a lot of money to make a comeback --
In the winter months, it is difficult for them to change.
In this way, we can magically deliver information and have different messages in the day.
Provided by Prismview, the company has installed a large LED screen at the Chicago soldier Stadium and the Utah Jazz home court, and the museum's screen features a distance of millions of pixels, 20 apart
Resolution but not high
Graphic definition.
The cost of the screen is not immediately available.
Drivers and neighbors complain that some of the digital signs in the city are annoying, but Thurston says it shouldn't be a problem for the screen of the museum because the sensors automatically blur the logo of the day.
When the building is finished this summer, the museum still needs to be renovated and equipped with exhibits.
"We're going to use a lot of states-of-the-
Art techniques are used in all exhibitions, so I think it will be an experience for the future. Bmah @ postmedia. comtwitter.