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Choctaw Cultural Center Core Exhibits — Choctaw Cultural Center

The Choctaw Cultural Center, a 100,000+ sq ft ground-up cultural center for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Durant, opened July 23, 2021, with media experiences produced by Monadnock Media and exhibit design by Design Division, Inc.

VenueChoctaw Cultural Center
Project typeNew Building
StatusCompleted
Year completed2021
Technologiesprojection mapping, AR/VR interactive, GIS mapping, immersive theater

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Monadnock Media Media Design & Software Media experience design and production across a 24,500 sq ft footprint, including the Moundville Model animated projection, the We Are Choctaw orientation theater, Hickory Grove AR/VR stations, Treaty Theater, and Creation Stories projected-shadow sculptures
design-division Exhibit Design
kubik maltbie Fabrication Fabricated the Luksi (Turtle) Children's Activity Center, a 60,000 sq ft component of the cultural center, completed 2019 per Eos Lightmedia's own project page (distinct completion date from the venue's 2021 overall opening)
Eos Lightmedia Lighting Design Supplied and integrated specialty lighting (angled graphic panel lighting, modular LED systems, flexible track lighting) for the Luksi Children's Activity Center, contracted by Kubik Maltbie

Description

The center tells the 14,000-year history of the Choctaw (Chahta) people "from their own perspective," per Chief Gary Batton, through installations including a 3D-scanned Moundville Model, an AR/VR Hickory Grove habitat experience, and a Treaty Theater chronicling historical treaties.

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