Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions show that the earth is undergoing constant alteration. Continents shift, mountains arise and pass, volcanoes erupt and they destroy and remodel the landscape. From a geological point of view volcanoes come and go very quickly – that turns them into the kind of geological phenomena which humans can understand with their senses.

The Lava Dome´s exhibition area has a size of 700m². Immediately entering the visitor sees an impressing variety of colours which refer to the world of the volcanoes. “The world of the volcanoes”, “The volcano-studio” and “The time of the volcanoes” are the three main areas into which the Lava Dome is split up. The “landscape circus” in the foyer informs the visitor about all the interesting institutions and landscape-memorials within the volcano park around Mendig.

The complete control of all media replay and exhibition parts are controled via one central lcs1 lighting control server and 5 more servers running the e:cue remote media player replaying video and audio content. By using Wake - und ShutDown over LAN through the e:cue e:net network, it is easily possible to startup the complete installation in the morning via a simple user terminal ( e:cue e:com ). All videoprojectors are connected to the e:net network via portservers and therefore allow complete access to all available data of the projectors, such as status, lamp hours, focus setting and more. Controlling complex installations using simple user terminals: e:cue lighting control