Terapixel Panorama Exhibition
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Exhibition Terapixel Panorama Exhibition
Discover the Terapixel Panorama Exhibition, an immersive digital exhibition transforming the historic "Panorama of the Battle of Murten" into a cutting-edge multisensory experience.
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Exhibition
Experience how cutting-edge 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
10am to 4pm
Free admission
For group visits or guided tours, reach out to Diego Riva.
Terapixel Panorama Credits
Concept, design and direction: Sarah Kenderdine
Military historian: Daniel Jaquet
Imaging platform: Nelissen Decorbouw
Scientific photography: Paul Bourke
Application software: Samy Mannane, Nikolaus Völzow, Adriano Viegas Milani
Digital Humanities: Tonia Ramogida, Raphael Chau
Communication: Marinella Sofia Gkinko.
A project of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL in partnership with the Foundation for the Panorama of the Battle of Murten (Stiftung für das Panorama der Schlacht bei Murten, 1476).
Sponsors and supporters
Supported by Loterie Romande, Municipality of Murten, Canton of Fribourg, Canton of Vaud, Federal Office for Culture, the Association of the Friends of the Panorama, and the Foundation Etrillard and Phase Onetm, Swiss National Science Foundation Agora Fund, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, UBS Culture Foundation, Foundation Etrillard, and Association Suisse pour l’Histoire et les Sciences Militaires, Scentrealm, dsm-firmenich.
