Exhibition
Experience how technology transforms a historic Swiss masterpiece.
Visit us at Pier 17 this Fall to explore the Terapixel Panorama Exhibition by Prof. Sarah Kenderdine and her team, the winners of the 2024 SFNS Agora Award.
On display at Swissnex in San Francisco until December 12, 2025, the exhibition lets you experience how cutting-edge technology transforms a historic Swiss masterpiece into an unprecedented immersive digital installation featuring the largest digital image of a single object ever made—a 1.6-trillion-pixel digital twin of the 1893/94 Panorama of the Battle of Murten.
The exhibition combines high-resolution imaging, immersive visualization, and humanistic research, pioneering the use of high-fidelity 3D scanning, 4D volumetric video, fully dynamic spatialized soundscapes, and the first-ever real-time olfactory augmentation in cultural heritage. It reinterprets a pivotal moment in Swiss history while reimagining the 19th-century panorama format for contemporary audiences.
This exhibition is part of Layers, an event series by Swissnex in San Francisco to uncover the human stories behind scientific discovery.
*Opening Hours
The Terapixel Panorama is open to the public during the following times:
Nov 3 to Dec 12, 2025 / Wednesdays to Fridays only (closed on Nov 12-14)
10am to 4pm
Free admission
For group visits or guided tours, reach out to Diego Riva.
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Terapixel Panorama Credits
Concept, design, and direction: Sarah Kenderdine
Military historian: Daniel Jaquet
Imaging platform: Nelissen Decorbouw
Scientific photography: Paul Bourke
Platform engineering: The Countdown Company
Application software: Samy Mannane, Nikolaus Völzow, Adriano Viegas Milani
Digital Humanities: Tonia Ramogida, Raphael Chau
Communication: Marinella Sofia Gkinko
A research project of the EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology, in partnership with the Foundation for the Panorama of the Battle of Murten, custodian of the original painting.
Supported by Phase One, ScentRealm, and dsm-firmenich.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Loterie Romande (Fribourg), Loterie Romande (Conférence des Présidents des Organes de Répartition), Loterie Romande (Vaud), Municipality of Murten, Canton of Fribourg, Federal Office for Culture, Association of the Friends of the Panorama, Foundation Etrillard, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, UBS Culture Foundation, and Association Suisse pour l’Histoire et les Sciences Militaires.
