HIVE and Panasonic have helped deliver an ambitious immersive museum experience at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), where more than 170 HIVE media engines drive 128 Panasonic 20,000 lumens 4K projectors across a series of large-scale projection environments.
The deployment processes more than 21 billion pixels of visual content every second, bringing Qatar's history, culture and future ambitions to life through immersive storytelling.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, the National Museum of Qatar is renowned for its striking desert rose-inspired architecture and immersive visitor experience. The museum's galleries combine cinematic projection, artefacts and exhibition design to guide visitors through Qatar's journey from prehistoric landscapes and early settlements to the nation's modern development and future vision.
Delivered in partnership with Secuoya QFC & BGL audiovisual, the installation represents one of the largest HIVE deployments to date, with 172 Beeblade media engines supporting projection mapping and synchronised playback across ten galleries. To bring Qatar's history and culture to life, the museum is also currently upgrading all 128 of its Panasonic projectors to the latest PT-RQ25K 4K DLP laser technology – each equipped with HIVE’s embedded technology via the SDM slot.
At the heart of the system is a distributed playback architecture comprising 150 Beeblade Pluto media engines, 30 Beeblade Minima media engines and 14 Beehive enclosures. Together, they deliver 8K 10-bit HEVC playback, projection mapping and site-wide scheduling, ensuring synchronised content playback across the museum's immersive galleries.
Projection alignment and blending are managed using VIOSO software, while HIVE's platform provides centralised monitoring, reporting and control.
The visual experience is to be delivered by 128 Panasonic PT-RQ25K 3-Chip 4K projectors installed throughout the museum's immersive galleries, projecting cinematic content across complex curved architectural surfaces and exhibition environments. With 20,000 lumens capability, the PT-RQ25K provides approximately double the light output of the PT- RQ13K projectors being phased out as part of the upgrade programme.
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