Notre-Dame de Paris, the Expérience, an modern exhibition on the cathedral’s 850-year historical past utilizing bodily scenography and augmented actuality, has opened on the France pavilion at Expo 2020.
The exhibition, which runs till November 1st, takes guests via the cathedral’s building within the Center Ages, its position within the non secular, cultural and political lifetime of France, and the restoration work being undertaken following the harm the World Heritage constructing sustained in a hearth in 2019.
Histopads, cutting-edge pill gadgets developed by the French start-up Histovery, will present guests with a digital and interactive expertise of historic occasions, such because the coronation of Emperor Napoleon I and the development of the spire of Viollet-le-Duc.
The augmented expertise can even allow guests to grasp the complexity of the restoration work and the completely different trades concerned in rebuilding the landmark constructing.
The expertise, which opens the on the eve of France’s Nationwide Day celebrations at Expo 2020 Dubai, is a precursor to the a lot bigger ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’ exhibition, which is able to happen in Paris on the Collège des Bernardins within the spring.
It’s going to then tour all through Europe, in addition to the Americas and Asia, during the reconstruction undertaking.
The exhibition is introduced by the L’Oréal Group, Expo’s official magnificence services and products accomplice and one of many donors to the cathedral’s restoration.
