“We're sometimes pressured to go more digital and to modernise, but that is the unique selling point of museums. … You can share a space with something that you wouldn't normally share a space with. And there's weird gravitas to that.”
The Deep-Sea Podcast · October 2026
The hosts were talking with Anne Helene Tandberg about a deep-sea exhibit at her museum, which is full of real specimens. Linley's point is that a museum can do screens and visuals too, but what only it can offer is being in the same room as the actual object.
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from what I've seen over the pictures at least, there's a lot of Real museum samples as well. I always love that we're sometimes pressured to go more digital and to modernise, but that is the unique selling point of museums. We can do digital things and we can do visuals in different ways, but being in the presence of this is a real specimen. This is a real thing. I think that's the unique thing about museums. You can share a space with something that you wouldn't normally share a space with. And there's weird gravitas to that. You can read the Wikipedia article and you can see a lovely image of it. But to be in the presence of that rock sample, that changed our whole understanding.
I, I totally agree with you, um, especially in that deep sea hole, that was one of the few rooms in the entire museum where I was allowed to do something digital on the large space. Mostly we had to use all of the old, viewing cabinets. And not to even change the glass in the viewing cabinets because it needed to be historic, but in, in the deep. we got to do a whole digital wall. CGI. Very cool. so, And I think Megan uh, liked that wall quite a lot, right?
It was beautiful. I, it was so immersive, especially with that C shape, and you just felt really enveloped by it. It really, and then you said that some of it was responsive. I did notice when you got up close to it that it would be things would move or maybe explode a little, and then it had the loki's castle in the very middle and like little amp buds going around and there were some eel pouts. it was wonderful. It was like a, a dream magic. I wanted to live there.
Yeah, our technical curator for for this room, ley, he really wanted to have this wall. So he made contact with a company that did some CGI for for the new Star Wars films and and they are in Bergen. So we could actually go visit them and show them Pictures and films from, from the deep sea, from from the area, the low key castle, this hydrothermal dump that we found and show them different animals and have them make this whole world force. Because we were thinking first about making, just showing film. you know, when you take an ROV down, you, don't really see very far and you can't really show people than, what is it? We have added a lot more light and you can see a lot further than you would in real life, but it places you in that sort of just gives you better issues in a way.
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