The Canadian Museum of Nature, originally opened to the public in 1912, has embarked on an extensive process of renewal which includes the restoration and renovation of its exhibits in the historic Victoria Memorial Museum Building in Ottawa. An initial part of this project was to design and develop a comprehensive technical architecture that will allow multimedia technologies to be incorporated into each of the restored galleries in several phases over the next few years. The first three galleries - Fossils, Mammals and Birds - opened in early 2007 and will be completed by 2011.

Magian designed and established standards for the Museum’s exhibition technology architecture in order to facilitate the effective and efficient development of displays and public programs, now and into the future.

Magian developed a range of solutions and incorporated the latest technologies including fibre optics to ensure optimum presentation quality, reliability, updatability, multi-channel delivery and maintenance efficiency for the various media programs throughout the Museum. 

Working closely with the in-house design and production teams at the Museum, Magian designed and produced all of the media programs for the three galleries - Fossils, Mammals and Birds - for Phase One of the Renewal Project.

This work includes more than forty touchscreen and large screen display programs as well as soundscapes. The

Magian MMaP System has been used as the basis for all of the media programs and soundscapes.

Education staff use handheld PDAs, communicating via a wireless network, to take-over control of the various media programs in the galleries. They are then able to communicate with Museum visitors using presentation content they have devised themselves using the multimedia templated system within the Magian MMaPS digital Content Manager System.