Timewalk, a stunning exhibition at London’s Immersive Experience Museum takes visitors through 12,000 years of human history
Imagine being able to walk through 12,000 years of history and experience some of the greatest civilisations to world has ever seen – well imagine no more because now it’s possible.
In just over an hour visitors to Timewalk at London’s Immersive Experience Museum visit Babylon, Egypt, the Maya, Gobeklitepe and Rapa Nui in a incredible multisensory journey through space and time, crossing oceans and centuries to learn about the incredible achievements of these lost civilisations.
Grounded in archaeological research, Timewalk begins as soon as you enter the museum and are handed a set of headphones – these come with 25 languages and even a channel suitable for children. As well as being a true 360C experience you are also immersed in sound to really bring the journey through history to life.
First up, visitors walk through a tunnel narrated by time, explaining how the whole of human history is just a blink of an eye when it comes to the universe.
The you’re funnelled into a room with dozens of stone pillars, each telling the story of one of humanities great civilisation. Some are well known, from the Maya to the Egyptians, but others have been lost to time and are utterly fascinating.
Then it’s on to the first immersive room, which takes visitors through an incredible journey back through time as images flash all around you in the huge space. It really feels like you are travelling through the desert in Babylon and into the city famed for its hanging gardens and then across the ocean to Easter Island and into the jungle to see the Mayan temples and how these people survived so successfully for so long.
As the stories unfurl around you it’s hard not be sucked into what feels like living and breathing history. Narrated by David Schofield and Olivia Williams, Timewalk has been designed and created by more then 250 immersive artists, designers and composers.
It’s aim is to bring history to life in a way which has never been done before, to fully immerse visitors in the landscape and time as they travel through the great civilisations of the past.
The exhibition ends with a stirring monologue, explaining how we’re all linked through time and space.
Timewalk is on now at London’s Immersive Experience Museum, for tickers, visit the website.
