Exhibit: The Hudson's Bay Company Gallery
Venue: Hudson's Bay Centre
Location: Victoria, British Columbia
Date: September 25, 2003
Client: Mystus with Lord Cultural Resources
Contributors: Mystus - active components, graphics, installation, programming; Lord - project management, design, housing and fabrication

Visitor Experience:
The Hudson's Bay Company Gallery is complete in-store museum that presents the fascinating history of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria. This unique Gallery brings the museum experience into a shopping setting through a series of exciting exhibits that share the origins, founding and growth of the Hudson's Bay Company - "from fort to store". Mystus combined our full range of exhibit-making products and services with extensive research and testing to create a fully interactive and immersive visitor experience unlike any other. The museum features a two-storey 'Entrance Tower' exhibit with original Mystus-produced video vignettes; three hand-held audio vignette kiosks; three interactive, life-sized 'themed' environments with human 'Lifecast' Mannequins including a Trading Fort, period Dining Room and Trader scene; interactive-modified artifacts including a radio and telephone; digital flip book archival catalogues and Beaver magazines; multi-language Quiz With object Highlighting; and a specially designed interactive map of Hudson's Bay Company's trading routes.

Client Requirements:
The Hudson's Bay Company required a highly interactive exhibition with three immersive "scenes" that included a life-sized trading post, trader on the shore, and 1927-era dining room.

Mystus Expertise:
Mystus applied a large volume of integrated programming solutions with original graphics, design and video production, extensive archival research, and custom hardware, sculpture and installation.

Unique Features:
The Gallery's three life-sized themed scenes and human 'Lifecasts' were a unique departure for Mystus. Creating Lifecasts involved sourcing models, posing and catching their expressions in a mould, then detailing and painting the figures. The Gallery also featured an original Mystus interactive Radio product not previously exhibited.

*Project Challenges:
"Lifecasts" and themed environments were entirely new challenges for Mystus. The project also involved a very high density of multimedia, interactives, and electronics to be turned around and installed in very short time.