Their Past Your Future is a new educational project led by the Imperial War Museum and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, with the aim of inspiring people of all ages to discover the Second World War, how it shaped and altered the world's course, and why it is still relevant now and in the future. It is now showing in nine different locations around the UK - Bluewater in Kent, Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Forest of Mercia Innovation Centre Staffordshire, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, Rhyd-Car Leisure Centre in Merthyr Tydfil, Royal Ulster Rifles Museum in Belfast, and the West Dunbartonshire Town Hall in Glasgow; it will tour to a further sixty venues over the next year.

For the exhibition's national launch, White Light Events' Lighting Designer and Project Manager Matt Holliday had to light both the exterior and the interior of the building, with the ground floor used for VIP presentations and a drinks reception for 180 guests, and the exterior hosting vintage World War 2 vehicles. His design for the event included ETC Source Fours, PAR64s, a Robert Juliat Marius followspot and White Light's own Exhibition Uplighters. He also used Martin Mac2000 automated spotlights, some mounted in protective domes, to create searchlight effects outside the museum. Control for the rig was from a Zero88 Fat Frog console.

As on a number of other recent projects, including the successful Aqua season of parties at the Old Billingsgate Market, White Light Events also co-ordinated the audio and video projection sides of the event, bringing in Lee Dennison from Autograph for audio and Miles Poulton from Metro for video.

"I was delighted with White Light's service, both from a technical and creative view," commented the Imperial War Museum's Sarah Dowd. "It helped make the evening the enormous success it was."

Further information about Their Past, Your Future and all of the other exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and its branches around the country can be found at www.iwm.org.uk. Further information about White Light can be found elsewhere on this website.