In May 2022, project members Victor Flores, Susana Martins and Ana David carried out a research visit to Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema (partner institution of the CURIOSITAS Project), to examine its pre-cinema collections, located both at ANIM (National Archive of Moving Images) and at the exhibition venue Cinemateca Júnior. In this context, devices were visualized and studied (two-lensed optical boxes, zograscope, megalethoscope, polyorama), together with optical views displaying perspective and night/day transition effects, over 30 polyorama transparencies and two paper optical theatres. After identifying the most significant objects for the scope of our investigation, photographic documentation campaigns were subsequently carried out in July and October 2022 under the technical supervision of Ana David Mendes.
Curiositas’ database on Cosmoramas enters the DARIAH ecosystem
The database on nineteenth-century cosmoramas developed within the framework of the Curiositas project was introduced into the DARIAH–EU digital humanities platform. The entries for the mapped historical cosmoramas were added to the ROSSIO archive, the Portuguese node...
Final Three Episodes Released: “What Is a Cosmorama?” Interview Series
The final three episodes of the interview series “What is a Cosmorama?” have now been released. The series consists of six thematic videos dedicated to the Cosmorama, a largely forgotten media device that nevertheless played a fundamental role in nineteenth-century...
Curiositas Joins the European Time Machine Ecosystem
CURIOSITAS has joined the Time Machine Organisation with a new Local Time Machine entitled Mapping Cosmoramas. Time Machine is a European initiative that aims to build a large-scale, distributed digital infrastructure for collecting, organising, and analysing the “Big...