Panasonic is involved in the development of more than 150 AV solutions for the new IOC Olympic Museum

On the occasion of the prompt reopening of the Olympic Museum of the International Olympic Committee (COI) to the public, Panasonic has announced the news that maintains its partnership with this sports institution and its participation in the development of more than 150 solution AV, projection and security for this installation.

Located in the Swiss town of Lausanne, The IOC Olympic Museum reopens its doors to the public after a major remodeling of its facilities and equipment to display permanent and temporary exhibitions related to sport and the Olympic Games. This is the largest archive of parts, multimedia and audiovisual on the history of Olympism, since it adds up to more than 1.500 pieces and documents in total. In addition, It is also one of the main tourist attractions of Lausanne, with more than 200.000 visitors every year.

This museum, with more than 3.000 square meters of surface, It temporarily closed its doors last January. 2012, after twenty years active, to improve your facilities and adapt them to new times with the help of cutting-edge and interactive presentation technologies.

The temporary closure has allowed the museum to evaluate how to offer new experiences to both young people and tourists., families, researchers, athletes and fans, to showcase the extraordinary legacy of the Olympic Games held around the world. The IOC opening ceremony will see the new form of the legendary museum unveiled and its doors reopened to the public, with the aim of breaking visitor records throughout 2014.

Technology and Olympic commitment

As Official World Partner for Audiovisual Equipment, Panasonic celebrates continuing its consolidated partnership with the Olympic Games for more than twenty years, and one of the objectives of this collaboration focuses on the motto “Share the Passion”, to help boost enthusiasm for the Olympic Games and communicate it to this large ecosystem of the public so that they can enjoy and share the real atmosphere of the most important sporting event in the world.

For this, Panasonic has provided the latest AV technology to the Olympic Games, ensuring secure support for the development and broadcast of the largest sporting event in the world. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Museum you can see not only the important renovations of the museum, but the company's different ranges of AV technology that are also used in the Olympic Games, including projectors, screens, professional cameras and Viera televisions.

Fifty professional projectors will be used for the reopening of the museum, thirty professional displays, five broadcast cameras and more than thirty security cameras from the multinational distributed among the exhibition halls, the art gallery, the learning zones and hospitality areas of the building.

Panasonic technology plays an integral role in this museum so that visitors can see crystal clear images thanks to the new capabilities in its projectors, like edge-blending function. The renovation of the Olympic Museum reflects the desire to create a true 'Olympic Games Campus', in which visitors are invited to immerse themselves in history, the inheritance, the dreams, the challenges and values ​​that have contributed to making the Olympic Movement what it is today.