Visitors wearing virtual reality headsets in a brick-vaulted room lit in purple and yellow.

Experience centres and parks · Budapest, Hungary

Bálna Defence Centre

Introducing the world of defence through direct, hands-on experiences. Previous work at Bálna connected content, interactive programmes and day-to-day operations.

01 // Bálna

The brief

Support a visitor environment and programme offer that makes defence-related subjects accessible to people with different interests. The venue needed to accommodate both individual visitors and organised groups.

A military vehicle on display in front of a glass-fronted building, with visitors in the square.

02 // Bálna

Our team's contribution

Work related to experience programmes, interactive equipment, on-site operations and communications. This included coordinating programmes with visitor operations and presenting the centre's activities.

Selected project scope

The defence-technology showroom and central recruitment office opened on 17 June 2024.
Creative concept, spatial design, construction and multimedia, with content developed together with Ministry of Defence specialists.

A four-legged robot draped in camouflage netting on the pavement outside a building. — Bálna Defence Centre — robotics demonstration outside the venue.

Exhibition interior with a sandbagged bunker set, a desk and seating. — Bálna Defence Centre — bunker-style exhibition set.

NoteThis project is previous work by members of our team.

03 // Bálna

What the project demonstrates

An experience centre is more than a collection of individual attractions. Content, equipment, prepared staff and visitor movement together determine how the experience works in practice.