Silk Road Landscape Map Digital Museum
Turning an Ancient Scroll into an Immersive Space
Chief Designer & Art Director / 2020 Fujian, China
The Maritime Silk Road Museum was jointly built by the Palace Museum and Shimao Group. As the chief designer, Danqing transformed the national treasure “Silk Road Landscape Map” of the Ming Dynasty into an immersive digital experience exhibition of more than 2,000 square meters. The visitors traveled from the East to the West along the Silk Road, and from past to future. The Silk Road Landscape Map is a Ming Dynasty landscape scroll collected in the Palace Museum, showing the landscapes and city-states along the Silk Road from the East to the West 600 years ago.
The exhibition combined weathered city-states and continuous digital interactive videos together to transform the ancient scroll into a nearly 3,000-square-meter mixed space for the audience to experience travel from the East to the West, from the past to the present. The long digital scroll running through the exhibition featured rich interactive installations on the ground, ceiling and walls. The audience can experience the basic necessities of life on the ancient Silk Road through role-playing.
