Visit with Historyry Notre-Dame de Paris

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Dhe Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen, Saxony, is the oldest castle in Germany and well worth a visit. On its website, it describes itself as a “trendsetter since 1471”, and there is actually a surprise right at the beginning: at the ticket office, every visitor aged six and over receives a tablet computer with their entry ticket. This takes you up an old Wendelstein into the Great Hall. Right next to it is the Great Court Room. On felt slippers you glide over the polished parquet floor past intricately carved sculptures, thick columns and medieval-looking wall paintings. But are they really as old as they appear at first glance?

To find out, scan the tablet on a time portal and hold it against the paintings. The tablet has a 360-degree function, so that you can move freely in space and at the same time go on a journey through time: it shows what the hall looked like in the late Middle Ages, specifically in 1493 during a court banquet in honor of Elector Frederick the Wise. Everything is depicted in detail, from a long table set with steaming dishes with squirrels, capon and crab mousse, the members of the court, to the festive decoration of the room with warming wall hangings and spark-spitting torches. A click on individual people and objects provides brief background information.

Interactive 3D models

A swipe to the right catapults the viewer into a second epoch – into the year 1840, when the Albrechtsburg had long since become the manufactory for the world-famous Meissner porcelain. The Große Hofstube is unrecognizable: the medieval vault was destroyed by a fire, intermediate ceilings were put in, and the hall is used for the production of saggers, which protect the porcelain from dirt during firing. 3D models interactively show the individual steps of porcelain production.

Behind this tablet is Histovery, a play on words between discovery and history: the French company was founded in 2014 and is based between the Tuileries and the Place Vendôme in Paris. Its product, the Histopad tablet guide, is used in some of France’s best-known châteaux and museums, including the Unesco World Heritage sites of Chambord and the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans. On display, it enlivens the bare walls of the Papal Palace in Avignon and the demolished ballrooms of the Paris Conciergerie.

Since 2020 in Germany

The company has also been active in Germany since 2020. According to Schloesserland Sachsen gGmbH, Meissen Albrechtsburg Castle is the first sight in Germany to welcome its visitors with Histopad’s augmented reality technology. In the meantime, the baroque Moritzburg has been added. Until January, visitors could use the Histopad in the Dresden Palais to navigate through the 850-year history of Notre-Dame de Paris in 22 detailed stations.

After the devastating fire in the cathedral, it will remain closed until 2024. Until then, the exhibition “Notre-Dame de Paris – l’Exposition augmentée” conceived by Histovery will be touring the world with stops in Dubai, Paris, Washington, Dresden, New Orleans and Shanghai. According to press spokeswoman Mathilde Michaut, the monuments with which Histovery cooperates attract around 3.5 million visitors every year.

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