Sep
15
2025
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Next up in the Ideum Road Trip Series: California! We are taking you on a tour of all the projects we have in the Golden State. Visiting one (or all!) of these will give you the perfect opportunity to try out our touch screen tables and displays and get an impression of our exhibit design, fabrication, and software development capabilities.
We are starting at the most southern end of the state, with the interactive exhibits at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers Basecamp. In collaboration with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Architects HGW, Ideum designed and built over 20 exhibits for both the herpetology building and the invertebrate building. From digital signage to full-dome projection, and unique fabricated pieces to custom software, nearly every group at Ideum played a role in this project.
From San Diego, we are traveling to the Palm Springs Tramway. As part of a multi-year renovation of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway Mountain Station, Ideum developed and installed a large interactive video wall to showcase the trails accessible from the Station. The project features stunning 4K drone footage, interactive maps, motion sensor onboarding, and a 12-foot wide IR touch overlay.
Ideum partnered with the California Science Center in Los Angeles to create a suite of innovative and fun exhibits for the Life! Beginnings exhibit. Life! Beginnings tells a story in which we all play a part: how organisms are conceived, how they develop in the womb, and how their genetic inheritance interacts with environmental forces to shape the adult beings they become. Ideum’s contributions to the project included a wide range of our capabilities, including experience design, animation, 3D modeling, UI/UX design, software programming, and content development.
Our next stop takes us to the Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica. In Tune with Nature is a playful interactive room thoughtfully illustrated to immerse visitors in an animated mountain meadow scene. In the space, children play with butterflies, dragonflies, fireflies, and other creatures as the scene moves through cycles of dawn, dusk, night, and daylight again. Ideum collaborated with the museum and its partners on the illustrations, animations, programming, and AV elements of the interactive exhibit.
In true road trip fashion, we are taking a trip up the California coast to the northern half of the state. Our first stop is the Monterey Bay Aquarium to visit the four custom-fabricated touch screen towers Ideum created for the aquarium. Each unit has an 86” stretch monitor with a custom touch sensor, with a unique 33.2” industrial grade square LCD monitor mounted to the top of the custom display. The interactive tower displays are used to display an interactive application that was developed by the Monterey Bay staff, featuring images from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s (MBARI) Instagram feed.
Our final stop is the David Rumsey Map Center, which is located in the Green Library at Stanford University. The map center includes Ideum’s 75” 8K Pro touch screen table, which is used to allow access to the digitized maps that are part of the center’s collection. The large surface of the table and high resolution allow visitors to interact with the highly detailed maps.
Not able to visit these places in person? We are always happy to tell you about projects that we’ve worked on in other parts of the country, or give you a virtual demo of our hardware, and show you examples of software we’ve created. Reach out to our sales team for more information!
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