Bruges The Bruges business AlfaVision has a miljoenenproject won. In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will AlfaVision ‘Baku Khan’s Palace design and decoration. It is going to be a new museum about the old town. In our country, the company has contributed to Historium in Bruges and C-Mine in Genk.
AlfaVision is a relatively young company with about twenty permanent staff and headquarters in Bruges. Four years ago, engineer Hans Vandamme of the company. Before that, he was active in the Virtual Reality department of Bekaert. He had his knowledge was already used to the new museum Historium on the Market in Bruges. Other museums in Flanders showed interest in something with virtual reality. AlfaVision worked afterwards for C-Mine in Genk, belgium, and the africa museum in Tervuren. And now beckons also abroad.
Encounter
After the completion of a virtual reality-experience in an Austrian castle, the company may now, to Azerbaijan. How that come? At an international conference in Istanbul was the CEO of AlfaVision guest speaker and he met Asgar Alakbarov and Javid Kazimov from Azerbaijan. “Quickly proved that they are for the completion of a new museum, the same ideas shared that we applied in the Historium in Bruges,” says Vandamme. “While the Historium visitors via technology let get acquainted with Bruges of the fifteenth century, the theme of Baku Khan Palace the rich culture and history of the capital of Azerbaijan.”
