Gradient Advanced Technologies and Quuppa Supporting the Hyde Park Barracks Renewal Project
The Hyde Park Barracks is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the historic heart of Sydney, currently home to the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. As part of the Hyde Parks Barracks Renewal Project, commemorating the site’s bicentennial, the museum has partnered with Local Projects to develop and an authentic exhibition experience, featuring an engaging narrative and employing contemporary interpretative techniques, immersive installations and unconventional interactive elements.
This bold project is the first reinterpretation of the Hyde Park Barracks since it opened as ‘a museum of itself’ in 1991, offering visitors a new way to experience authentic, well researched ‘living’ history at a heritage site.
At the heart of the Hyde Park Barracks renewal project is Local Projects’ innovative Story Guide system, which will be used to drive unique learning experiences using handspan-accurate location data.
To provide the accuracy required, Gradient Advanced Technologies is supplying the cutting edge Quuppa Intelligent Locating System™ to Hyde Park Barracks Museum and Local Projects for the Hyde Park Barracks Renewal Project. State-of-the-art Quuppa technology allows the story guide to respond to visitor movements in real time to create a truly next-generation museum experience.
Gradient Advanced Technologies is proud to be partnering with Hyde Park Barracks Museum to bring this ambition vision to life.