Last December, some team members from the Curiositas project visited the Panorama Museum in Salzburg and had the unique opportunity to see all the 136 Cosmoramas by Hubert Sattler and Johann Michael Sattler stored at the archive of the Salzburg Museum. This guided tour through these extraordinary views of the world was made by Werner Friepesz, director of the Panorama Museum and by Gerhard Plaster, researcher and expert on the Sattlers’ Cosmoramas. This visit was also an opportunity to explore more information about Sattler’s visit to Lisbon in the 1860s.
Be Curious! Research project Curiositas receives the highest evaluation from FCT
The research project Curiositas, focused on cosmorama exhibitions in Portugal and Spain during the nineteenth century, received the highest rating (Excellent) from the evaluation panel of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The FCT-funded...
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...