The National Museum of the Pacific War Now Open

I spent the last week in Fredericksburg, Texas working on the National Museum of the Pacific War. It was opened to the public on December 7th, Pearl Harbor day. Myself and my colleges at Boston Productions have been working on many of the media and interactive exhibits in the museum. I primarily spent my time on a set of kiosks that allow several battles of the Pacific War to be drilled down into. The kiosks let you look at items such as the: Background, Battle Timeline, Maps, Commanders and Forces, photos and video for each battle. The total scripts for all the battles combined were something like 800 pages.


For the programming of this project I put together a template based on China Burma India in very plain html. Several of our production staff used this as an example and made templates for the other seven battles while myself and another programmer created the front end. I created a html parser that formats all the data from the html in an acceptable way for the flash project.

My grandfather served in Normandy in WWII, but it was still very neat to be able to work on a project like this. The veterans who I saw go through the facility were all very moved by a lot of the items in there.