"The Castle" - a new Lumolog Peep Box

Lumolog Peep Box is an experience-based museum installation that brings old paintings and photographs to life through interactive video. Evoking Spaces in collaboration with Performing Pictures has been commissioned to produce a new Lumolog Peep Box for the Stockholm City Museum.

One of the rare items in the collections of the museum is the 1661 oil painting “The Castle Tre Kronor” by the Dutch painter Govert Camphuysen. The painting shows the old castle of Stockholm, which was located at the same place in Gamla Stan as today’s castle, but was ruined in a fire 1697. Based on the principles of the prototype "Electro Bacchanalia", the peep box "The Castle” will bring the oil painting to life.

The project team has now filmed the characters in Baroque costumes using blue screen technique. The installation will be installed at the Stockholm City Museum in the beginning of May in the same room as the original oil painting and a miniature model of the castle.

Experience “The Castle”: One side of the box displays a replica of the painting and in the middle of the painting the visitor finds a small peeping hole. When looking into the hole, a digitally projected version of the painting will appear and the characters in the foreground of the image will start acting out small scenes, accompanied by ambient sounds of the cityscape.