Imagine This (2025)
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INTRO
In the fall of 2025, the Natural History Museum in Aarhus opened their first VR exhibition, IMAGINE THIS!, in collaboration with The Animation Workshop at VIA Univercity Colleage, SCI-VI and Phenomenal.
EXHIBITION
The exhibition opened the 10th of October 2025, aimed at general visitors, along with families and institutions with children aged 12+. As the visitors are required to wear a VR-headset, a host is situated at the entrance to guide visitors.
At the opening the exhibition consists of three co-located VR experiences:
COSMOTORIUM – positions you in the solar system between the sun, the plantes and asteroids where you can roam freely
KASKELOT – meet the giants of the ocean and feel the tale of human’s relationship with nature
AQUAMARINE – a wonderful undersea universe where shoals of the fish, Blue Ribboned Sweetlip, glides calmly past you.
In February 2026 the exhibition was extended and COSMOTORIUM was switched with a new VR experience:
TRICERATOPS – stand face-to-face with a 9-meter tall triceratop dinosaur (both with skin and scales – or as skeleton)
(All graphic materials related to the Imagine This! exhibition is developed by Naturhistorisk Museum)
OBJECTIVE
IMAGINE THIS! provides the visitor with an appetizer of the museum experience of the future. Through new technology you can learn about nature and simulltaniously fall under its spell. The transformative space creates a foundation for a sensorial experience, placing you at hands grip with the parts of nature which too often is out of reach.
IMAGINE THIS! Is the first test act in a strategic collaboration spanning from 2025-2028 between Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus, and The Animations Workshop, VIA University Colleage, and Sci-Vi, Viborg.
As a means to learn from the exhibition, follow-up research was conducted in the exhibition runtime, gathering data through observations, a tablet survey and tactile dot-voting. Furthermore, a selected group of students from The Animation Workshop visited the exhibition and collaborated on investigating and expanding the interaction and concepts of COSMOTORIUM and AQUAMARINE for educational purposes, and presented for the research group.
CREDITS
Naturhistorisk Museum
The Animation Workshop/VIA University Colleage
Sci-Vi
Phenomenal