Virtual reality pavilion

Embark on a journey to the Golden Age of Alexandria, Athens, and Venice!

This brand new experience has been developed for the needs of the Art Explora Festival and allows you to immerse yourself in the past at the heart of 3 iconic cities at the height of their splendor:

• Athens during the Classical era (5th century BCE)
• Alexandria at the twilight of the Ptolemaic dynasty (1st century BCE)
  
• Venice during the Italian Renaissance (15th century)

The VR modeling of these 3 cities is derived from the worlds of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise developed and published by Ubisoft.
To create the most authentic worlds possible, extensive research is consistently conducted prior to the creation of each Assassin's Creed game by Ubisoft's research teams, in close collaboration with external experts from around the world.

This experience explores the extraordinary story of one of today’s most celebrated Baroque artists: Artemisia Gentileschi. We follow her journey as she navigates a world where women have virtually no rights, and becomes one of Europe’s most celebrated and in-demand painters of her time. Artemisia painted herself into posterity within her own lifetime – this story is about how she rose up against the odds and continues to capture our imaginations today.

Humanity’s first masterpiece was created 36,000 years ago in Ardèche, France. Within Chauvet Cave lies thousands of drawings - traces of our past - enclosed forever. The Dawn of Art is a VR experience, including both an immersive film and a virtual visit of the cave that invites you to meet your prehistoric ancestors, the first humans who ventured in a deep subterranean world and left their marks preserved on the walls.

Founded in 2021 between Paris and Gaza, the HAWAF collective aims to (re)build a besieged community through an imaginary museum - the Sahab Museum (English translation The Cloud Museum). In this interactive virtual reality headset experience, users find themselves in a partially destroyed lunar terrain, facing a tigress who will guide them throughout the experience. Following the tigress, the user is invited to collect and contemplate artworks lost and/or damaged, then return them to the Sahab Museum, where they belong.