London Museum

An immersive audio-visual room capturing the mudlarks following the rising and falling tide on the Thames foreshore.

Photo showing 2 visitors watching the Tide Room film at the Museum of London Mudlarking Exhibition, Secrets of the Thames. The film is played on a large video wall comprised 8 large screens in a 2 by 4 grid.
The Tide Room at the Secrets of the Thames exhibition

The Tide Room is an immersive installation at the heart of the Secrets of the Thames exhibition. Visitors enter a darkened space where a large-format screen shows a time-lapse film of the tide rising and falling on the Thames foreshore, accompanied by spatial audio that recreates the sounds of the river.

An early sketch of the Tide Room concept. A person stands in the centre of a cube shaped room facing a large wall playing a video with a horizontal water-level line in the centre..
Early sketch for the Tide Room AV experience

Positioned at the end of the exhibition journey, the Tide Room is a quiet moment where visitors can observe and reflect. The room is next to Luke Jerram's Moon installation, concluding the visitor experience by connecting the moon to the Thames tides and the tides to the mudlarks.

A photo of the entrance tide room viewed from the adjacent room. In the foreground is the large inflatable Moon installation by Luke Jerram. Beyond the moon is a deep blue velvet curtain. Through a gap in the curtain we see a small portion of the tide room video wall
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