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Industry Museums & Galleries City / Country Hungary (Budapest) ORA product ORA + 80 Event Institutional exhibition (6 months) Location Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
At the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, an 80 cm ORA sphere opens an exhibition devoted to the history of the palace. By spinning it, visitors zoom into the building’s details like a magnifying glass: sculptures, paintings and archives come alive under their hands. A project delivered by the integrator Sommator.
Sommator (Sommator AVS) is a Hungarian audiovisual integrator based in Budapest, specialising in interactive installations and projection systems. For this project, it designed and deployed the entire setup, from the touch sphere to the sound and visual scenography, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, as part of a six-month institutional exhibition. Founded in 1825 by Count István Széchenyi, the Academy occupies a neo-Renaissance palace inaugurated in 1865, on the bank of the Danube. The sphere was placed at the entrance of the exhibition, facing a large sofa, to introduce all the themes covered.
Bring the building’s history to life: the sphere’s rotation acts like a magnifying glass that enlarges the details, inviting visitors to explore the Academy from the outside as well as the inside.
On the sphere: the building at 1:1 scale, exterior details such as the Academy’s sculptures, enlarged paintings and the Ceremonial Hall with its old and 20th-century archives. By spinning the sphere, visitors zoom into each detail and the National Museum’s archives come alive under their hands. The setup relied on an ORA + 80 touch sphere, surround sound, a Probeam projector and a Mac Mini M4, with multi-layered interactive content.
A spectacular interactive experience, in which the National Museum’s archives come alive under the visitors’ hands. The rotation of the sphere makes it possible to zoom into the content and gradually reveal its details, making exploration intuitive, lively and immersive all at once.
Discover the sphere and the installation.
