The Pantheon of the Kings of the Museum of San Isidoro de León, known as ‘Romanesque Sistine Chapel’, He now has an ally to improve the visitor experience and make it totally immersive. It will also allow anyone to “visit” this precious piece from anywhere in the world.
Thus, virtual reality glasses place the user at the center of the Pantheon and allow them to explore all its spaces, in addition to providing precise explanations. When you stop to look at one of the paintings or tombs, it lights up in a specific way and you hear an audio that describes the details.
The San Isidoro Museum, which will offer the experience for a month and a half approximately to know the reaction of visitors, it already maintains contacts with other cultural or heritage centers to which it will offer the possibility of having it for a time.
beyond words
The director of the San Isidoro Museum, Raquel Jaén, highlighted that thanks to this project and HP technology, the Royal Pantheon “will be able to leave this space, from the stone walls, to be able to tour the world. Our idea is that citizens who want to know our history, our art, our spirituality have the opportunity to learn it through this technology anywhere in the world. In this way, the objective is to offer something “that cannot be described with. words,” explains Ical.
The general director of HP SCDS, Miguel Ángel Turrado, detailed that with this “exact copy and replica”, created from over 1,700 high quality photographsusing the latest technologies and “the most advanced software”, the aim is to ensure that anyone who visits it virtually anywhere in the world has the feeling of walking through these walls, this beautiful corner of the city. And also “encourage more people to come here”.
Jaén indicated that the Museum, since last March, launched its extensive renovation, which triples the dimensions of the exhibition area to reach 3,200 square meters, recorded a 30 percent increase in visits and it has the capacity to increase this figure, which until now has been around 110,000 per year.
Miguel Ángel Turrado commented that after the immersive experience of the Pantheon and the high-resolution visualization that allows interacting with the three-dimensional model of the Chalice of Doña Urraca, presented a year ago, the next HP project for the San Isidoro de León will be an intervention on the House of Doña Sancha. “It will be next and different; This is what will combine the themes of Artificial Intelligence. “I cannot give more details,” he concluded during the presentation.
The abbot of the Collegiate Church of San Isidoro, Luis García, and the historian and writer Nacho Ares attended the presentation and were among the first to begin the experience.
