AV systems.
Real experiences.

Visitor center

Albert Robles Center

The entire center changes between English and Spanish within seconds. Mad combined digital interpretation with physical exhibits, including the custom Fate of Rain water-cycle model.

Traveling exhibition

Your Baby's Amazing Brain

Combined touring exhibit deployment - personalized, adaptive, and engineered for international venue-to-venue operation.

Studio experience

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: Harry Potter

Large-scale personalized AV infrastructure for one of the world's most visited entertainment attractions - recognition-based, multilingual, and immersive.

Science museum

Science Storms

Acoustics, AV design, and interactive exhibits for one of the most awarded science galleries in the world - 26,000 sq ft, 50+ exhibits, 4 open theaters, and a deliberate acoustic architecture designed to eliminate sound bleed across a completely open gallery.

Science and astronomy

Griffith Observatory

Audiovisual design and installation, interactive exhibits and precision mechanical models for a place built to make astronomy accessible.

Presidential library and museum

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Complete AV design, engineering, integration, and commissioning for a major presidential library and museum. Reverse hybrid QuickSilver® - distributed compute with centralised audio. Specified for 20-year operation.

Corporate experience

HP Inc. Customer Welcome Center

VIP recognition and personalized brand storytelling for a major technology company's corporate visitor experience.

Motion theater

Everglades Airboat Adventure

A coordinated ride experience combining a 26-seat motion base, projection, multichannel sound, moving access structures and effects.

Immersive exhibition

TIME: The March

Immersive 3D audio design for TIME's exhibition on the civil rights movement - introducing visitors to the origins of the movement before placing them, via VR, at the 1963 March on Washington.

Entertainment venue

Sony Wonderverse

Immersive AV++® infrastructure for a large-scale Sony IP entertainment experience - personalized content delivery and integrated show control across a multi-zone immersive environment.

Traveling exhibition

Crayola IDEAworks

A 30+ exhibit touring installation built entirely on wireless QuickSilver® - just 7 signal cables in total. Strikes and rebuilds in each new city without rewiring. Recognition-based personalization across all exhibits.

Environmental and heritage center

Blue Planet Theater

Full AV++® infrastructure with QuickSilver® backbone and TeaParty® show control for a civic environmental heritage venue.

Testimony and education

Dimensions in Testimony: El Paso

Mad integrated the display, audio, microphones and QuickSilver controls for a shared encounter with recorded survivor and liberator testimony at El Paso Holocaust Museum.

Testimony and education

Dimensions in Testimony: Richmond

Accessible, multilingual testimony infrastructure for a USC Shoah Foundation installation in a civic cultural context.

Museum exhibition

Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

Immersive AV++® infrastructure for a major cultural exhibition - multilingual delivery and synchronized show control.

Science museum

Fire! Science & Safety

Visitors investigate fire hazards in a simulated home and practice using an extinguisher against a projected fire. Mad programmed and integrated the media and physical controls.

Education center

Mesa Water Education Center

Interactive AV++® infrastructure and personalized water education systems for a municipal utility visitor environment.

Botanical garden visitor center

Missouri Botanical Garden

A large LED wall introduces the Garden in a daylight-filled lobby. Mad integrated the media system and LED wall, using light sensing and controlled brightness to support the media as daylight changes.

Heritage museum

Mosaic, the Jekyll Island Museum

Wireless distributed QuickSilver® AV++® infrastructure for a Georgia coastal island heritage museum. What began as a traditional AV specification became a wireless-first deployment that eliminated the need for a dedicated equipment room - saving the client budget and returning valuable floor space to retail.

Documentary and physical reconstruction

National Geographic: Confederate Flying Machine

For National Geographic, Mad reconstructed a proposed nineteenth-century flying machine, combining historical interpretation with physical engineering and fabrication.

Documentary and physical reconstruction

National Geographic: Star Clock B.C.

Mad constructed an enlarged Antikythera mechanism for National Geographic’s Naked Science documentary, bringing an ancient engineering problem into physical form.

Regional history museum

Orange County Regional History Center

AV++® infrastructure and multilingual personalized history delivery for a major regional cultural institution.

Children’s museum

Pennypickle’s Workshop: SATTA

Playful, engaging, and accessible interactive AV systems for a children's discovery museum.

Sports heritage museum

Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor Museum

AV++® infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor. 8 signal cables in total - significant cost and installation savings with no loss of functionality. Remote support link maintained by Mad Systems.

Presidential museum

President Ford's Cabinet Room

Immersive AV infrastructure and personalized historical content delivery for a presidential museum installation.

Visitor center

Romero Visitor Center

A dome, curved displays and a vibrating floor take visitors into reservoir spaces normally out of reach. Mad also renewed the pump model, mapped graphics, theater selection and interactive kiosks.

Art installation

Taiji Terasaki: Transcendients

AV infrastructure for a major public art installation - precise show control and distributed media delivery.

Foundation headquarters

The Kavli Foundation

Personalized science communication and visitor experience infrastructure for a major science philanthropy foundation.

Headquarters and visitor experience

USC Shoah Foundation Headquarters

Flagship AV++® infrastructure for the USC Shoah Foundation flagship - QuickSilver® backbone and TeaParty® show control, delivering a powerful and carefully considered visitor experience.

Visitor center

Vista del Lago: Water Technology Exhibits

LiDAR-driven interactive installation for the California Department of Water Resources visitor environment.

Science museum

Discovery Cube Los Angeles: Interactive Tornado

A full-height, visitor-controlled tornado exhibit, designed, fabricated and installed by Mad Systems.

Interactive museum exhibits

Smithsonian: Interactive Robotics

Robot controls, expert interviews and a media-rich timeline turn robotics research into a visitor encounter.

Outdoor visitor experience

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens

A video wall, audio system and opening media for a visitor entrance exposed to an outdoor desert environment.

Corporate and broadcast environment

ESPN SportsCenter Lobby

Interactive display towers, a video wall and a live-data scheduling display bring a broadcast studio’s activity into its lobby.

Children’s museum

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate

Museum-wide AV and interactives, with a children’s television studio designed for both automatic sessions and collaborative production.

Heritage museum

Augusta Canal Museum

Audiovisual systems and interactive exhibits for Augusta Canal Museum.

Heritage visitor center

Liberty Bell Visitor Center

Mad Systems project at Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell Visitor Center.

Corporate environment

ExxonMobil Headquarters

Audiovisual project management for the headquarters lobby exhibits.

Science museum

YOU! The Experience

Audiovisual systems for YOU! The Experience at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

Science and history museum

U-505 Exhibit

Design consultancy for the U-505 exhibit, including reversing the submarine’s original orientation.

Civic and heritage museum

National Constitution Center

Consultancy for media integration with the audiovisual hardware.

Exhibition and destination

Millennium Dome Exhibits

Exhibit work for London’s Millennium Dome.