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Museums Journal

April 2005

"Roger Mann, the director of Casson Mann, the project’s designer says: 'From the outset, the brief was to be the best that a 21 st - century museum could be; not a theme park or a Maddame Tussauds, but a magical experience with the technology hidden. Some museums are overt about the technology, but we aimed to make a connection with Churchill and the Churchill archive.'

The centrepiece of the 929sq metre space is a 15 - metre long interactive timeline table, an illuminated ‘virtual filing cabinet’ containing scanned material from the Churchill archive. Using a touch-pad navigation system, similar to that used on a laptop computer, the visitor can trace Churchill’s life and career through chronologically arranged ’virtual’ folders. Clicking on a folder opens it to reveal electronic facsimiles of letters, enlargeable photographs, audio snippets and other historical documents."

Museums Practice Magazine

Summer 2005

"The lifeline offers extensive information about Churchill in a technology sophisticated format through an electronic 'filing cabinet' projected on to the tabletop. Opening a particular file allows the visitor, as far as possible, to see what Churchill was doing every year, month and day, and places this information in the context of world events. This installation is an extraordinary achievement: in word-length the equivalent of a substantial book of 200,000 words, 1,150 images and 1,100 documents.

'Where this display differs from the conventional shrine is in its dependence on varied and frequently cutting-edge means of communication: not only the lifeline but photographs, film, audiovisual effects, interactives and a wide range of sounds. Technically the result is highly impressive…"