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PERGAMON – Panorama of the Ancient City

 

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Archaeological Exhibition and a 360°-panorama in a temporary Rotunda

From 30 September 2011 through to 30 September 2012, the Berlin Museums’ Classical Antiquities Collection will be presenting Yadegar Asisi’s new monumental 360° panorama at its PERGAMON – Panorama of the Ancient City exhibition. The first fully comprehensive exhibition devoted exclusively to the ancient city of Pergamon is staging the huge photorealistic simulation panorama measuring about 25 x 100 m in a special rotunda erected in the majestic forecourt of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. As a key part of the forthcoming exhibition, the panorama will offer visitors fascinating insights into the culture, architecture, and daily life of a Helleno-Roman city in the time of classical antiquity.

The truly unprecedented feature of the PERGAMON – Panorama of the Ancient City project is its linkage of a major archaeological exhibition with one of Yadegar Asisi’s breath-taking 360° panoramas. Research and excavation work by the Berlin Museums in Pergamon (present-day Bergama on the west coast of Turkey) have now been carried out for 130 years. Yet despite impressive results and excavations of unparalleled interest, never before has there been a major exhibition opening them up to a broad public. Many of the excavations in the exhibition will be on show for the first time. 

Close Dialogue between Arts and Classical Archaeology

The monumental 360°panorama is based on all the research on the city gathered up to now, as carried out in close collaboration with the Collection of Classical Antiquities’ own archaeologists
and the German Archaeological Institute. The recreation of the city on a scale of 1:1 is designed to give visitors an understanding of the fragments of buildings and sculptures on show in their original settings. It is certainly no wild exaggeration to say that in the 360°panorama at the PERGAMON – Panorama of the Antique City exhibition a supremely consummate blending of art and scientific rigour has been achieved. (www.smb.museum; www.asisi.de).