Forbidden City Duan Palace Interactive Media Museum
Media technologies integrated with architectural elements and furnitures to show “a day of a empire”.
Duan Palace is the front gate of Forbidden City. This digital museum is designed to allow visitors to experience one day of empire’s life in history. With great respect to this over 500 years old traditional building, media technologies are designed to be hidden within the royal style architectural elements (such as floor tiles, columns, gates and windows) to create a dynamic lighting effects that simulate sunshine at different time of a day. Accordingly, different royal events will display on digital gates, as if through the gates Duan Palace connects to different locations in Forbidden City.
In the meanwhile, this space also reveals Forbidden City’s huge collection as a museum through interactive installations which are designed in the form of traditional furnitures. For example: a “Duobao” shelf uses hologram to display ceramics and visitor can re-classify them by time, type or colour. On a long calligraphy table, visitor can learn to write the most famous calligrapher’s master piece. A series of traditional folding screens allows visitor to try virtual royal costume on!
