Located in the city of Yangzhou, the National Museum of the Grand Canal covers an area of 16,000 square meters and will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the culture of China’s Grand Canal. Xenario’s creative team has taken on the challenge to prove that mind-boggling innovation and rigorous implementation are a contradiction no more. Building on Xenario’s proven competence of turning fantastic ideas into reality, our winning design will integrate unconventional exhibition formats, like role-play games or large scale realtime rendered immersive experiences, using modern technology to bring ancient stories to life.

The National Museum of the Grand Canal will become a truly audience-centered museum. Immersed in an animated ancient scroll, visitors will be able to travel the canal on a real size ship replica, and experience the vibrant life along the water’s shores. They will uncover the mysteries of the canal in a role-based game, guided by an ancient map, that will take them through a series of fully reconstructed interactive settings of ancient times. Finally, the audience will enter a gigantic, projection-mapped and interactive media environment telling a thousand years long story of a culture flourishing along this ingeniously created water artery.

Xenario is not afraid to invent and challenge the status quo of cultural exhibitions. By turning educational museum content into engaging experiences, we update the format of traditional museums and offer the world a new introduction to Chinese civilization.