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The resulting experience is a great addition to the site and
helps make your visit stick in your mind, especially having
seen a leg amputation take place in front of your very eyes!
The team have also recently updated the RAF Biggin Hill
Museum. Martin again, “I’m probably guilty of just never
having grown up! It can be good to visit venues with the
viewpoint of a six year old child as quite often they have
been created by committee and the fun can often get
squeezed out as the budget and vision have to cover more
and more bases.
revealed the finger prints, spit and even wee that carried
the fatal virus. Something quite eerie just a year before we
were hit by Covid 19.
The team seem well suited to bringing all sorts of stories
to life having also worked in film and TV and having created and delivered the 14 venue UK tour for Doctor Who
Up-Close for the BBC. It ran between 2005 to 2010 and
attracted over 2.1 million visitors.
A last word from Martin, “Our Website cheekily says:
Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, just ASK! I very much
hope that we bring that level of enthusiasm, creativity and
added value to any venue large or small, just ASK!”
We quite often suggest something that clients say was
dropped from the original brief but is an obvious crowd
pleaser. In the case of Biggin Hill we have managed to bring
a full sized Spitfire VR experience into their Chapel annex
and turn a former seating area into a dramatic Air Raid
Shelter Experience complete with a genuine WWII
Anderson Shelter, boy those shelters are tiny!” From spaces
large and small it’s obvious that Unusual Expo understand
the value of unlocking the inner child in us all.
Their award winning Spanish Flu exhibition at the
Florence Nightingale Museum has been featured in this
publication before and brought the museum a lot news
coverage and extra footfall. Their ingenious use of mirrors
made a modest room into an expansive view of period
hospital beds as far as the eye could see. Again the simple
use of projection onto the walls and even beds caught the
eye. Oddly impressive was a quick change in the lighting
from dim and atmospheric to complete Ultra Violet which
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