exhibitions & Interactives - Megafun Pty Ltd

	Melbourne Museum Welcome Map Megafun won the tender to produce a permanent foyer exhibit that greets visitors to the Melbourne Museum and introduces visitors to both the Museum and to the State of Victoria. Built from a complex of seemingly random placed columns the map reveals itself as a three dimensional outline of Victoria at the entry point to the Museum. The Welcome Map features 56 showcases set within 4.5 metre high rectangular poles, each telling a story about a particular Victorian region. These poles are designed to be moved to make room for functions.
	Phillip Island A Maze N'Things A Maze N'Things is a themed puzzle park on Phillip Island. In 2002 Megafun and A Maze N'Things joined forces to develop a major new extension for the park which was subsequently called Puzzle Island. Puzzle Island is a 400 square metre themed indoor activity centre, incorporating: puzzles, illusions, interactives, models, mazes and even a giant slide. Megafun handled all of the design and development work, and conceived and delivered all of the electronic and mechanical interactives. The park's attendance has increased substantially since the extension opened in 2004 and the response has been enthusiastic!
	Melbourne Museum Water Smart Home After winning the tender to create an interactive that addressed the theme of water conservation, Megafun created an extraordinary water sculpture and cartoon based interface that has proved to be so engaging and popular that the Museum needs to take bookings for its use. Water Smart Home went on to win another Gold Medal (after Raincheck 3000) in the American Museum Associations MUSE awards in 2005 - an extraordinary achievement for an Australian exhibit.
	Melbourne Museum Raincheck 3000 Raincheck 3000 was Megafun's second interactive to be installed at the Melbourne Museum. Tracking the path of a raindrop from cloud, through catchments, to reservoir to consumer, this remarkably realistic and engaging interactive won the highest accolade possible for interactive media in a Museum - the American Museum Association's Gold MUSE award for Science. This was the first time an Australian exhibit had won this award.
	Melbourne Museum & Scienceworks Sewer Tour The Sewer Tour was Megafun's first interactive to be presented at the Melbourne Museum. Installed in 1999 and still going strong, this interactive has proved to be enormously popular as it allows people to investigate Melbourne's Sewer System in photographic detail while going on a roller coaster ride from bathroom to settling pond. The Sewer Tour received a Highly Commended in the 2000 American Museum Association's MUSE awards and was the starting point for Megafun's specialty in photo-realistic fly-though interactives. Megafun has created a number of water themed interactive displays and exhibits for Melbourne Water. Much of this work is on display as part of a screen based interactive incorporated into the Discovery Centre in the foyer of the Western Treatment Plant in Werribee.
	Melbourne Water Melbourne 2030 Megafun won the tender to deliver an exhibition for the Department of Infrastructure to launch their Melbourne 2030 strategy. The piece was presented at the Melbourne Museum and was originally intended to be on display for 3 months. Megafun's response was a giant 10 metre x 12 metre aerial photograph of Melbourne over which visitors could walk and explore. The exhibition included two interactive displays that also provided additional detail about Melbourne's past years and future directions. The work was exceptionally popular and stayed in the Museum for nearly 12 months, prior to moving to Melbourne Water's Discovery Centre in Werribee.