Terapixel Panorama at Swissnex, San Francisco

Sara Velas and Sarah Kenderdine discuss panoramas for the opening night of the exhibition

Monday, November 3, 2025 - 6:00pm

 

 

Opening Night of Terapixel Panorama Exhibition at Swissnex, San Francisco

Monday, November 3rd, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Open to the public: Register to Attend

Location:
Swissnex San Francisco, Pier 17, pier 17 The Embarcadero Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA

Velaslavasay Panorama's founder and curator Sara Velas speaks with Sarah Kenderdine at the opening night of the Terapixel Panorama Exhibition.

The Terapixel Panorama is the 1.6-trillion-pixel digital twin of the 19th-century Murten Panorama painting, created by the EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) in Switzerland to be the largest digital image of a physical object ever made.

Prof. Sarah Kenderdine is a leading researcher in interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums and winner of the SNSF 2024 Optimus Agora Prize. Sarah Kenderdine and Sara Velas will explore computational museology and the history and future of panoramas—from their 19th-century role as immersive storytelling media to their reinvention in digital form today—and discuss how these vast images continue to shape the ways we experience memory, place, and history.

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​​​​About Swissnex in San Francisco
Swissnex in San Francisco is an initiative of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Our vision at Swissnex in San Francisco is to connect tomorrow by empowering the next generation of innovators to collaborate and create futures where the planet and society thrive.

Before the opening begins is an invite-only event, Computational Museology: Exploring Heritage through Immersion, on how digital technologies transform cultural memory, and what is preserved, what is lost, and how archives endure in an age of constant change. Sara Velas, Sarah Kenderdine and Andrea Zaccheo (Curatorial Director of Museum of Craft and Design) will have a roundtable discussion after guided tours of the Terapixel Panorama Exhibition with Prof. Sarah Kenderdine.