The Castle / Slottet Tre Kronor

The Interactive PeepBox is an audiovisual experience that brings old paintings and photographs to life using layers of video, animation and sound. Evoking Spaces in collaboration with Stockholm City Museum adn Performing Pictures has produced a new Interactive PeepBox which is now permanently installed at 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 Castle PeepBox” brings the oil painting to life.