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—360-degree paintings; dioramas and museum displays; gaming; gardens; immersive experience; maps; material culture; media archeology; nineteenth-century popular media; optical and haptic devices; performative media; printed matter; public history; and virtual and augmented reality.

Volume 2 2025

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Series Editors: Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge, Nicholas C. Lowe

1 Scholarly Essays – Editors: Liz Crooks, Melissa Wolfe

Rachel Burke – Henry “Box” Brown’s Reflection of Slavery and the American Landscape: Reconstructing the Moving Panorama Mirror of Slavery

Conor Lauesen – Slabs of White: Panoramic Whales and Photographic Guano in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

2 Forum – Editors: Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge, Nicholas C. Lowe

Adela-Iuliana Negustor Beyond the Global Gaze: Celebrating Planetarium Diversity and Shaping a Spherical Worldview on Their Centennial

Richard A. Pegg  – “Panoramas” in East Asia

Mgr Beata Stragierowicz  – The History of Chinese Panoramas Began with a Visit to the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice

3 Reprints – Editors: Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge, Nicholas C. Lowe

Theodore R. Davis How a Great Battle Panorama is Made

4 Restoration, Management, and Field Reports – Editors: Gabriele Koller, Patrick Deicher

Christian Marty – The Bourbaki Panorama and the Challenges of Restoring the Optical Apparatus

Ryszard Wójtowicz – The Racławice Panorama and its Two Counterparts: Reconstruction in the Process of Panorama Revitalization

Vera Bras – The Panorama of the Battle of the Yser at Nieuwpoort: How One of the War Heritage Institute’s War Panoramas is Presented in a New Permanent World War I Exhibition in Westfront Nieuwpoort, Belgium

Carl Smith, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes – The Chicago Fire Cyclorama Reimagined: A Prototype for Immersive, Object-based Storytelling

5 Visual and Creative Essays – Editors: Ruby Carlson, Sara Velas

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer – Men Arrived on Horseback (Boas)

Megan Koester – A Façade on a Façade: The Necessity of Universal Studios’ Immersive Fictions

Ursula Brookbank – Lens, Light, Mirror: Various Experiences Made with an Overhead Projector

Blagovesta Momchedjikova – Panorama Poem

Jeffrey Ose Ohuaregbe – The Multidimensional Living Manifesto

Matilda Bathurst – The Wilderness Shall Blossom as the Rose

Tonia Ramogida – Panorama: IPC 2024 Post-Conference Tour

6 International Panorama Council Conference Report & Papers – Editors: Tonia Ramogida, Daniel Jaquet, Sarah Kenderdine

33rd Annual International Panorama Council Conference. Panoramas as Memory of the World. Hosted by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland | October 02–06, 2024

Patrick Deicher – Short History of the Swiss and International Panorama Initiatives and Ideas Regarding UNESCO

Suzanne Wray – Charles A. Chase and the Electric Cyclorama

Ruby Carlson, Sara Velas, Weiling Deng – The Nova Tuskhut: A Walk-in Archive of “Arctic” Things

Rod Bantjes – An Archaeology of Time and Memory in Panoptic Media

Ulrike Heydenreich – Verlangen naar de verte / Longing for the Distance—Reflections on My Solo Exhibition at Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague,

Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto – Illustrating a New Memory: Panorama Key and Virtual Tour for the Exhibition Panorama of Congo

Karolina W.jtowicz – Redefining Perception of Cultural Heritage: Extending Reality with 3D Models, VR, AI, and Gaming Technology

7 Reviews – Editors: Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge, Nicholas C. Lowe

Victor Flores, Linda King – Interview – Exposing Contrasts: A Conversation with Matthew G. Stanard on the Panorama of Congo and Belgian Colonial Propaganda  419

Gabriele Koller – Book Review – The Panorama of the Battle of Racławice and its Two Counterparts by Ryszard Wójtowicz

Blagovesta Momchedjikova – Book Review – Sacred Spaces of New England: Cultural Heritage and the Panorama by Seth Thompson

Andrew J. Reading – Exhibition Catalog Review – On the Spot: Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, A History

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Cover Image: Fire detail. Detail of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten (Louis Braun, 1893–1894), oil on canvas, 10 × 100 m. Image, EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology, 2024.