The World at a Glance
Panoramic and Peep Technologies
hosted by the
Early Visual Media Lab, Lusófona University of Lisbon
and the Art History Institute, IHA, NOVA-FCSH/IN2PAST
at the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal | July 2–4, 2025
- Panorama Rouen 1431
created by Yadegar Asisi in 2016
photo © asisi.jpg)
- Panorama Rotunda by Hittdorf
Paris, France in 1838
- Panorama of the Entry of the Magyars / Feszty-Panorama
Opusztaszer, Hungary
© Patrick Deicher
- The City of Luxembourg in the 17th century (Artist: Antoine Fontaine)
Musée d'histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
© MHVL, Falk Eisleben
- Semi-circle Panorama 'The Berlin Wall' created in 2012 by Yadegar Asisi, © asisi, Tom Schulze
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- e-cyclorama by Sanford Wurmfeld
exhibited in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2008.jpg)
- Jerusalem Panorama Crucifixion of Christ, Altötting, Germany, © Stiftung Panorama Altötting / photo H. Heine
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- Wilpena Panorama created by Jeffrey B. Morgan, Hawker, Australia
- Diorama of the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453
Military Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
© Patrick Deicher.JPG)
- ICCI 360 Rotunda
seamless 360° film projection in a mobile rotunda
ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries) with Plymouth University, UK
© Patrick Deicher.jpg)
- Panorama of Jerusalem and the Crucifixion of Christ, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
- Panorama Raclawice
Wroclaw, Poland
© Patrick Deicher
- Panorama of The Battle of Waterloo
Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
© Patrick Deicher.jpg)
- Interactive electronic panorama
exhibited in Luzern, Switzerland in 2010
© Patrick Deicher.jpg)
- Panorama of the City of Salzburg (Sattler-Panorama)
Salzburg, Austria
- Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
© Patrick Deicher
- Panorama of the Chibi War in 208
Wuhan, China
- Panorama of the Battle of Pleven
Pleven, Bulgaria
© Patrick Deicher
- Panorama of the Battle of Ji Nan
Ji Nan, China
- Panorama of the Battle of Mount Isel
TirolPanorama, Innsbruck, Austria
© Patrick Deicher
- Bourbaki Panorama
Luzern, Switzerland
© Emanuel Ammon.jpg)
- News
News
- Registration Opens for 34th International Panorama Council Conference!11.05.2025 Please join us in Lisbon! Registration will close when we reach capacity, or on May 31, whichever comes first.More...
- Call for Contributions to PIMS Yearbook v3 (2026)03.05.2025 Deadline: 3 October 2025
The Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook is the annual yearbook of the International Panorama Council (IPC, Switzerland), published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Germany). It surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes—but is not limited to—optical and haptic devices; 360-degree paintings; long-form paintings, photography, and prints; dioramas; museum displays; games; gardens; literature; maps; music; printed matter; still and moving images; virtual and augmented reality; and theatrical productions.More... - Memory of the World - Online public Meeting Link - March 19, 202518.03.2025 UNESCO Recognition Project - Panorama as Memory of the World
March 19th 2025, at 05:30-6:15pm (Central European Time) / 11:30am-12:15pm (Central Daylight Time–US).
The IPC appointed a commission in 2023 to carry out an application for inscription of the panoramas (as a media art form) to the UNESCO program Memory of the World in 2023. Some of you already answered an initial survey in 2024 and one day of the 33rd IPC conference was dedicated to the topic. Details about the commission, its mission, and the timeline (2023-2028) can be found online on the IPC’s commission webpage. The Scientific Committee of the Commission prepared a list of criteria for eligibility to take part in the project and an ideal list of panoramas to be included in the application.More... - Damian Markus Widmer (1932, Oct 25 – 2023, June 11)27.06.2023 More...
- Gebhard Streicher, Obituary. 1929 – 202410.02.2025 Gebhard Streicher, Co-Founder and Honorary Member of the International Panorama Council, has passed away at the age of 95.More...
- The 34th International Panorama Council Conference - Call is now CLOSED24.11.2024 More...
- IPC Newsletter 48 - call for contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE31.12.2024 Dear International Panorama Council member and friends,
The IPC Newsletter shares professional news and announcements amongst members of the IPC network via our mailing list and website. Please share your own news via the form below. The next issue (no. 48) will be published in SPRING 2025.
EXTENDED DEADLINE January 31 2025More... - PIMS Yearbook - LIMITED TIME 30% Discount17.12.2024 The Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook is available from DeGruyter for a limited time seasonal offer of SAVE 30% off.More...
- PIMS Yearbook Submission Deadline Extended to 11 November 202407.10.2024 The deadline to contribute to the Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies Yearbook v2 has been extended to end-of-day (in your time zone) Monday, 11 November.More...
- IPC-EPFL Digital Conference Package01.10.2024 Welcome to Lausanne!
DIGITAL PACKAGE - ready for download
The IPC-EPFL Digital Package containing the main conference information, is available to DownloadMore... - IPC 33rd Conference Registration - Registration is now closed29.06.2024 Registration for attendees is extended
until July 31, 2024!
PANORAMAS AS MEMORY OF THE WORLD
33rd International Panorama Council Conference
Hosted by the
Laboratory for Experimental Museology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland | October 02–06, 2024
registration is now closedMore... - The Crochet Coral Reef Project20.06.2024 Attention International Panorama Council 2024 Conference AttendeesMore...
- IPC Newsletter 47 Now Live30.05.2024 Read IPC Newsletter 47 in a new online flipbook or download the interactive PDF!More...
- 33rd IPC Conference Registration Opens28.04.2024 More...
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS28.12.2023 Panoramas as Memory of the World
The 33rd International Panorama Council Conference
hosted by the Laboratory for Experimental Museology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland | October 02–06, 2024More... - ANNOUNCING - IPC Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook v.1, 202414.10.2023 The Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook (PIMS Yearbook) invites contributions for publication consideration in its inaugural yearbook.
Contributions are due 03 December 2023More... - Grand Views: The Immersive World of Panoramas16.06.2023 More...
- Earthquakes in Turkey14.02.2023 More...
- Honorary Membership for Yadegar Asisi25.11.2022 More...
- Dr. Mimi Colligan appointed a member of the Order of Australia07.07.2022 More...
- Patrick Deicher is the new President of the Bourbaki Panorama Foundation in Lucerne, Switzerland21.02.2022 More...
- Velaslavasay Panorama Featured in the Washington Post09.02.2022 Tanya Warde Goodman makes "the case for visiting offbeat museums and attractions" by highlighting the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los AngelesMore...
- Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration18.10.2021 Melissa Wolfe, IPC Member and head curator of American art at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri (USA), recently opened the encyclopedic exhibition Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration.More...
- Velaslavasay Panorama Featured in the Los Angeles Times18.10.2021 The Velaslavasay Panorama was recently the subject of a full-length feature article in the Los Angeles Times. The article includes extensive commentary by founder and Artistic Director Sara Velas and Curator Ruby Carlson.More...
- 30th IPC Conference Abstracts & Bios Now Available18.10.2021 The full program, including presentation abstracts and presenters' biographies is now available to the public.More...
- Technical Consultation: IPC + Borodino Panorama (Russia)18.01.2021 In fulfillment of our mission of service to our institutional members, we recently hosted a meeting in which panorama conservators at the Borodino Panorama-Museum, Moscow, an institutional member of the IPC, consulted with the IPC Technical Committee and panorama conservators and managers working around the world. Here we share the video recording of this highly productive meeting.More...
- Memorial Statement for Major Panorama Artist Professor Li Wu11.08.2020 It is with great sadness we announce that on May 4, 2020, master panoramic artist Professor Li Wu passed away due to complications from a lengthy ongoing illness.More...
- More than Meets the Eye – The Magic of the Panorama10.05.2020 New IPC publication launched at the 28th International Panorama Conference in Atlanta, USA, 26-27 September 2019More...
- Save the Date! - 28th International Panorama Council Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2019)23.02.2019 The International Panorama Council formally invites you to join its 28th International Panorama Council Conference at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, September 26 – 27, 2019 with a post-conference tour on September 28, 2019 to visit museums and sites related to the 1886 cyclorama The Battle of Atlanta, which is housed in the new Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker Cyclorama Building.More...
- IPC Publishes the International Panorama Council Journal, Volume 231.01.2019 The International Panorama Council Journal, Volume 2 is now available on IPC's website where you can download a free copy of the Journal or order a print-on-demand version.More...
- 17.11.18 New 360 Degree Panorama: Pergamon Museum18.11.2018 Yadegar Asisi opens a new panorama of Pergamon in BerlinMore...
- 10.10.18 Obituary of Hans Kloss (1938-2018)10.10.2018 Panorama painter of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany has died on September 12, 2018.More...
- Cyclorama of Jerusalem To Close October 14, 201806.10.2018 Definitive closing of the Cyclorama of Jerusalem in Quebec, Canada.More...
- In Memory of Roger Hallett (1929 – 2018)09.09.2018 Roger Hallett who has died on 1 August 2018 at Salies de Béarn in South-West France at the age of 89 was a British painter and as a panorama artist unique at a time when the knowledge of how to paint panoramas had almost completely been forgotten in the artistic world.More...
- 360 degrees - Panoramas of Mt. Rigi in Switzerland24.06.2018 Panoramas of Rigi Mountain in Switzerland from the collection of Museum Vitznau-Rigi.More...
- Save the Date! – 27th International Panorama Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (2018)29.03.2018 The International Panorama Council formally invites you to join its 27th International Panorama Council Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Hosted by the Panorama 1453 History Museum, the conference will take place September 19 – 21, 2018 at Greenpark Hotel Taksim with a post-conference tour of significant heritage sites in Istanbul on September 22, 2018 and an optional 5th day trip to the Panorama 1326 Museum in Bursa. Sponsorship is provided by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality CO.More...
- Opportunity: IPC Secretary-General Position Opening12.03.2018 IPC is looking for a dedicated member of the panorama community to fill the important role of Secretary-General.More...
- New PANORAMA AM ZOO in Hannover/Germany will be open to the public from 18 November 201724.10.2017 Yadegar Asisi's panorama Amazonia will be open to the public in a new panorama rotunda in Hannover/Germany from 18 November 2017.More...
- 2017 Panorama Conference - Call for Papers19.05.2017 26th IPC Conference: The International Panorama Council is pleased to announce that our 26th IPC Conference will take place at the Queens Museum in New York, USA from September 29th - October 1st, 2017 with a Post Conference tour in New York City on October 2nd, 2017. Stay tuned for the tentative program, Call For Papers & highlights.More...
- New Arkaroola Panorama open to public16.04.2017 Jeff Morgan's second 360° panorama is now open to public at Hawker/Australia!More...
- A glimpse on a historical diorama - The diorama of ‘Storming the Tuileries Palace’07.01.2017 At the beginning of 2017 there was a short chance to take a look at one of the few surviving historical diorama paintings: The diorama of ‘Storming the Tuileries Palace’ was laid flat on the ground and photographed. The original dimensions of the painting are 5 x 17 meters. The central part still exists today. It measures 5 x 10 meters.More...
- New Staufer Saga Panorama open to public09.10.2016 Artist Hans Kloss' second 360° painting is now open to public at the Panoramamuseum Schwäbisch Gmünd/Germany.More...
- Opening of Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama LUTHER 1517 at Wittenberg/Germany on 22nd October 201608.10.2016 On 22nd October 2016 Yadegar Asisi’s latest panorama LUTHER 1517 will open its doors to the public.More...
- General Assembly re-elects Executive Board and Auditors06.10.2016 Upon its annual meeting on 30th September 2016 the General Assembly of the International Panorama Council has re-elected the Executive Board and the Auditors of the asscoiation.More...
- A devastating historical panorama of Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb on 360 Cities28.02.2016 More...
- Re-Opening of Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama DRESDEN 194513.01.2016 On 16 January 2016 Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama 'DRESDEN 1945 - Tragedy and Hope of a European City' at Panometer Dresden/Germany, will re-open its doors to the public.More...
- Welcome to the panorama community - Angkor Panorama Museum open to the public23.12.2015 A new panorama in Cambodia has opened its doors to the public a few weeks ago.More...
- New Secretary-General Ruby Carlson appointed31.10.2015 The Executive Board of the International Panorama Council has appointed a new Secretary-General to ensure a prosperous future of the organization.More...
- Looking back to the 24th International Panorama Conference03.10.2015 The Executive Board of the International Panorama Council is pleased to look back on a fruitful conference with 50 participants from 16 different countries and 20 interesting presentations. The conference could have never been so successful without the intensive preparation work of our two Executive Board Dominique Hanson and Guy Thewes in cooperation with the IPC Secretariat and the local partners that included Axel Tixhon of the University of Namur, Isabelle Bondroit of the City of Namur and the Luxembourg History Museum.More...
- Institutional and individual member acknowledgments03.10.2015 As IPC cannot survive without its members we are trying think of ways in which IPC can acknowledge its gratitude to its members. From this year on all individual members will receive a certificate. At the 24th IPC conference Sara Velas, President handed out special wooden plaques to the institutional members: the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China; the Asisi GmbH Company, Germany; the Luxumbourg History Museum, Luxembourg and the National Heritage Park of Ópusztaszer, Hungary.More...
- IPC brochure available03.10.2015 With the strong support of members Blagovesta Momchedjikova and Ruby Carlson, a new brochure has been created to share the activities & history of the IPC and also solicit for new members. Copies of this will be available for distribution at the conference, please take some home to share with colleagues, to gain more worldwide knowledge of the IPC! Please visit our website to download the digital .pdf version. To request hard copies of the brochure, please send an email to the Secretary.More...
- Opening of the new Panorama of the Great Barrier Reef03.10.2015 The Panorama of the coral reef off the coast of Australia fits in seamlessly with the series of Yadegar Asisi's nature Panoramas. It portrays the unique underwater world of the coral reef in all its fragile beauty and complexity.More...
- A Hidden Treasure‚ The Panorama of the Battle of Bannockburn03.10.2015 Travelling to Scotland, IPC treasurer Patrick Deicher visited the Hydro Hotel at Peebles to get an impression of a hidden panoramic treasure. Almost a third of the original panorama ‘The Battle of Bannockburn’ survives in the hotel’s ‘Bannockburn Room’ where it is pasted to the wall.More...
- Project for Panorama Vught 162903.10.2015 At the moment there is a new initiative to explore the possibility of a new cyclorama near the town of Vught in the Netherlands.More...
- University of Kent acquired panorama collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd03.10.2015 The University of Kent has acquired the panorama collection of the late Christopher Lennox-Boyd.More...
- Georama musical in St. Louis03.10.2015 Georama, a musical about the life of John Banvard, will be performed in St. Louis, MO early in 2016.More...
- Panorama Mesdag brought to life and on the move03.10.2015 As part of the festivities celebrating Mesdag’s 100-year-old cultural legacy, a team of Panorama Mesdag, the Netherlands branch of Samsung, and Dutch documentary filmmaker and video artist Menno Otten have worked up the Mesdag Panorama into an all new experience: a digitalized version is on show on 14 enormous Samsung Curved S-UHD screens, each one meter high and with a diagonal of 2.2 meter (88 inch).More...
- New publications on panoramas03.10.2015 Three new panorama related publications available!More...
- IPC eNewsletter 36 released29.09.2015 More...
- 25th International Panorama Conference 2016 - Save the date!25.09.2015 The next International Panorama Conference will be held in 2016 at Opusztaszer National Heritage Park / Hungary.More...
- Opening of Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama AMAZONIA at Rouen/France20.09.2015 On 26 September 2015 Yadegar Asisi’s panorama AMAZONIA will open its doors to the public at Rouen/France.More...
- New IPC Executive Board to take over for 201619.09.2015 On 11 September 2015, the General Assembly of the International Panorama Council has decided on changes in the strategic body of our organization.More...
- New IPC auditing comittee for 201619.09.2015 On 11 September 2015, the General Assembly of the International Panorama Council has elected two new auditors.More...
- The Biographical Dictionary of Panoramists of the English-Speaking World15.09.2015 We are very grateful to Ralph Hyde’s daughter Jeannette and his estate for donating Ralph’s comprehensive but unpublished work The Biographical Dictionary of Panoramists of the English-Speaking World to The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.More...
- Ottó Trogmayer, co-founder of IPC, passed away04.07.2015 It is with great sadness that we have to inform you all of the death of our co-founder and honorary member Ottó Trogmayer from Hungary (Budapest, July 24, 1934 – Szeged, 28 May 2015). He was one of the most important persons for the unification of the to the world-wide panorama community after the end of Cold War. Ottó Trogmayer, award-winning curator, archaeologist and professor) initiated the first meetings of European Panoramas in the early 1990s. Out of these meetings of panorama specialists grew the organization that is now known as the International Panorama Council. As the director of Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged he contributed in particular to secure the future of the Feszty-Panorama in Ópusztaszer, Hungary.More...
- Ralph Hyde, outstanding member of IPC, passed away04.07.2015 Life is fragile. We have recently learned how painfully true this saying is: Ralph Hyde is gone. It is still hard to believe it, but Ralph passed away in London on June 2, 2015. The worlds of panoramaniacs and early visual culture researchers and collectors have lost one of their most loved, outstanding and enthusiastic masters. Ralph left us suddenly, in full command of his enormous knowledge and very special skills, and head full of projects to come. There is no-one to take his place; personalities like him do not appear any longer. What we have are many precious memories, and of course Ralph’s published works, which will shine a bright light to the distant future.More...
- New exhibition catalogue 'J'aime les panoramas' is now available03.07.2015 The catalogue of the extraordinary panorama exhibition 'J'aime les Panoramas/I love panoramas' in Geneva/Switzerland and Marseille/France is now available.More...
- 2015 Mesdag Year in The Hague with reopened Panorama Mesdag15.06.2015 This year, the city of The Hague (Netherlands) is celebrating the renovation and reopening of Panorama Mesdag. In this 100th year-of-death of its painter, also the cultural legacy of Mesdag in The Hague is being celebrated.More...
- Reopening Panorama Mesdag15.06.2015 Closing a decade of planning, restoration and remodeling, on 28 March the Mayor of The Hague officially ‘reopened’ the oldest panorama in the world in its original rotunda, housing the magical marine Panorama of Scheveningen, that was opened on 1 August 1881 on Zeestraat 65.More...
- Publication on Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress is now available to order online15.06.2015 The Painters' Panorama: Narrative, Art, and Faith in the Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress by Jessica Skwire Routhier is now in print and available to order online. All royalties will go to the Dyer Library and Saco Museum, the little Maine museum that took on one of the biggest paintings in the world.More...
- Sevastopol Panorama celebrates its 110 Years15.06.2015 On May 27 and 28 the Sevastopol panorama celebrated its 110 year anniversary.More...
- Gettysburg Cyclorama Original Unveiled to Public15.06.2015 On 21 April 2015, owners of one of the original Gettysburg Cycloramas had all 14 panels displayed for the public in a warehouse in Fuquay-Varina/USA.More...
- Crankies in the press15.06.2015 Crankies (a modern day version of 19th Century moving panoramas) received a lot of press last week. Sue Truman (IPC member) coordinated the first CRANKIE FEST at the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle. Four crankie artists (Dejah Leger, Charmaine Slaven, Gregory Johnson and Sue Truman) performed to a full house and a very enthusiastic audience.More...
- Free wheeling15.06.2015 In April and May this year there was an extraordinarily project exhibited. The research exhibition featured dance and performance on video by Kevin Clifford and Sue Austin, creating a fully immersive experience using Oculus VR headsets and projection onto stunning, ethereal installations.More...
- Opening of Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama BAROQUE DRESDEN at Dresden/Germany09.06.2015 On 6 June 2015 Yadegar Asisi’s panorama BAROQUE DRESDEN at Dresden/Germany, has opened its doors to the public.More...
- 63'000 visitors at PanoramaXXL in Rouen/France11.05.2015 Success for Yadegar Asisi's panorama ROME 312 at Rouen/France! 63'000 persons have visited the panorama in the six months since its opening on 20 December 2014.More...
- Congratulation on the 40th anniversary of Panorama 'The Volochaevskaia Battle'02.05.2015 Congratulations to our colleagues in Russia on the 40th anniversary of the Panorama 'The Volochaevskaia Battle'!More...
- 24th IPC Conference Registration12.04.2015 Registration is now open!More...
- Adamek Unrolling at Sam Fox School of Art & Design in St. Louis, MO / USA12.04.2015 On March 31, 2015, the Sam Fox School of Art & Design Professor Paula Wilson (Louis D. Beaumont Artist in Residence) hosted Artist, Curator and IPC President Sara Velas for two sessions on the medium of the panorama for her Extra Dimensional Printmaking Class and 2D Design Class.
(by Sara Velas)More... - Thiago Leitão published in 'O Globo', the largest circulation newspaper in Brazil12.04.2015 March 1st, was the beginning of the celebration of 450 years of the city of Rio de Janeiro. They decided to do a special folder, describing the history of the city. There are many texts of important historians, professors and architects. There is special attention to Thiago’s research about the Panoramas of Rio de Janeiro and his university.More...
- An update from the Luxun Academy of Fine Art12.04.2015 In March 2015, Luxun Academy of Fine Art President Mr. Wei Ershen and Vice-President Mr. Ji Yunhui met with IPC President Sara Velas to give an update on the recent actives of the academy.
(by Sara Velas)More... - Restoration of China’s First 180-degree Panorama Begins12.04.2015 In March 2015, IPC President Sara Velas met with representatives at the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and learned more about the future restoration of the Panorama of the Lugouqiao Incident (also known as The Battle of Marco Polo Bridge) which was originally created in the 1980s under curator Mr. Xia Shu-Shen.More...
- A 360-degree digital projection panorama in China12.04.2015 Immersing the audience in a dynamic panoramic picture by reproducing the history with digital technique.
(By Miao Wei, Shenyang Timesoft Interactive displays art Engineering Ltd, Shenyang, China)More... - Video installation by Clemens von Wedemeyer AFTERIMAGE12.04.2015 2013, 6min semicircular video installation, colour, soundMore...
- Reopening of Panorama Mesdag on 28 March 201529.03.2015 On Saturday, March 28th the official reopening of the renovated Panorama Mesdag took place in The Hague/Netherlands.More...
- New permanent exhibition at Thun-Panorama in Switzerland27.03.2015 After last year's huge restoration campaign, the Thun-Panorama in Switzerland opened a new permanent exhibition to the public on 28 March 2015. The new exhibition explains the history of the Thun-Panorama, it's painter Marquard Wocher and the Panorama Phenomenon in general.More...
- Panorama Dresden 1945 a huge success24.03.2015 More than 50000 guests have visited the panorama DRESDEN 1945 in the first six weeks after its opening on 24th January 2015. It will be on display until 31st May 2015. It is planned to show the panorama every year in winter around the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 for about three months.More...
- Sandy Wurmfeld’s next E-Cyclorama24.03.2015 Sandy Wurmfeld finished a panel of his panorama. Panel 3 of 4 is underway for the next E-Cyclorama.More...
- New publication 'Panoramas worldwide and Birth of Chinese Panoramas'24.03.2015 Mr Xia Shu-shen edited a big book Panoramas worldwide and Birth of Chinese Panoramas in Beijing in 2014. The book depicts major China and worldwide panoramas with the whole scale pictures and amazing details of hundreds colour pages, it is thrilling history document about centuries of panoramas. He wrote various designing elements on full and half circle panorama research. The book won the researchers a lot of admiring when first publicly showed at Altoetting 23rd IPC conference last September.More...
- IPC photo gallery online10.02.2015 A photo gallery showing images from last year's 23rd International Panorama Conference in Altötting/Germany is online on IPC's facebook page.
Please visit and add your own images of the conference to that album!More... - Follow IPC on facebook and twitter08.02.2015 Get IPC information on the following sites, where we post news and events as they happen:More...
- Optical apparatus of Mesdag Panorama renewed06.02.2015 The upper canvas (velum) of the Panorama Mesdag has been exchanged recently. The velum was so dirty and damaged that a new one was needed.More...
- Video documentary on Velaslavasay Panorama01.02.2015 The Atlas Obscura project has visited the Velaslavasay Panorama and interviewed Director Sara Velas.More...
- Opening of Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama DRESDEN 194525.01.2015 On 24 January 2015 Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama 'DRESDEN 1945 - Tragedy and Hope of a European City' at Panometer Dresden/Germany, has opened its doors to the public.More...
- Immersive projection of the panorama 'The Battle of the Yzer'03.01.2015 A digital immersive projection of the panorama of the 'The Battle of the Yzer' is currently on view at the Westfront Nieuwpoort visitor centre in Belgium as part of Worl War I commemoration.More...
- IPC eNewsletter 32 released25.12.2014 More...
- Panorama de Vries reopens in 201525.12.2014 The Panorama de Vries a 30m long and 2,10m high panorama of the city of Turnhout and its surroundings will reopen in 2015. From 19 April until the end of 2016 you can visit this panorama in Turnhout on working days and occasionally on weekend days. The Panorama de Vries team will be happy to give all the IPC members a personal tour. If you wish to visit the Panorama de Vries please send the secretary of IPC an email.More...
- Paper Peepshows The Jaqueline & Jonathan Gestetner Collection25.12.2014 The participants of the 23rd Conference in Altötting were already treated by the amazing talk of Ralph Hyde on his Paper Peepshows. His book is now for sale via the Antique Collectors’ Club with ISBN 9781851498000. With its 272 pages and 511 color illustrations it is definitely a book that you want to have.More...
- Erkki Huhtamo’s collection25.12.2014 With an office full of antique projectors known as “magic lanterns” and a conviction to retell media history, Erkki Huhtamo has pioneered the field of media archaeology, compelling us to think about the cultural history of 21st century media through the machines that were the precursors to today’s digital cams and movie projectors.
Having begun this quest more than 20 years ago in his native Finland, Huhtamo, a professor of design media arts as well as film, television and digital media, has sought not only to record the history of media through his writings, art and exhibitions, but to entertain modern-day audiences with productions using these antique machines.More...