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Tower of David

Turning the history of Jerusalem into exhibitions you walk through — projection, touch and sound.

Client
Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem
Role
Art Direction, Illustration
Disciplines
Art Direction / Illustration / Interactive Installation
Collaborators
Yoav Cohen, Shortcut Playground
A vaulted gallery at the Tower of David Museum — a gilded model of the Dome of the Rock lit inside a glass vitrine.
The challenge
Educate visitors of every age and background on the rich history of Jerusalem through interactive exhibitions inside a historic landmark.
The idea
Transform history into an interactive experience — illustration, graphic design and animation working within the museum’s brand and its architecture.
The system
Working with the museum’s curators and technology partners, custom applications were built for projection, touchscreens and sound-guided exhibitions — each one adapted to the room it stands in, inside a protected historic building.
The outcome
The exhibitions are installed and running at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem — across projection, touchscreens and sound-guided spaces, in front of visitors of every age and language.
Role & contribution
I art-directed the exhibitions and created the illustration language, then worked with the technology partners to adapt it for projection, touch and sound.
Two children using a lit interactive wall of layered images and Hebrew captions inside the museum.
Built for visitors who arrive mid-thought: a child can start anywhere on the wall and still find the story.
A vaulted stone room with a touchscreen lectern in front of a sculpted relief model, two visitors reading a panel beyond it.
Screens are set into the historic architecture rather than mounted over it.
Projection mapped onto a physical relief model of Jerusalem, drawing the Early Islamic city in light across the terrain.
One physical model carries every period — projection redraws the city as the story moves through time.
Children turning an illuminated globe in a vaulted stone hall lined with backlit screens.
Interaction is physical first: the globe is the control, the screens are the consequence.
Two visitors at a curved run of screens showing illustrated city scenes, beneath hanging architectural drawings.
Illustration carries the periods no photograph exists for, in a language consistent across the whole museum.

Credits

Museum Director & Chief Curator — Eilat Lieber
Exhibition Curator — Tal Kobo
Creative Direction — Yoav Cohen
Digital Media — Shortcut Playground

Engagement Interactive & Immersive Experiences
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