Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Immersive transportation back to the 1940s
Texas, USA
Overview
In 2020, ngx delivered an immersive experience for the Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony project. As an introduction to the museum, visitors enter a black box theatre—a central projection screen flanked by monitors along two side walls. Hardware is integrated into the building fabric to ensure the technology is invisible, while spatial audio and immersive animation completes the visitors’ transportation into a 1940s living room in Eastern Europe.
Scope Highlights
- Story Development
- Concept Design
- Spatial Audio
- Archival Production
- Immersive Experience Design
- Synchronised Animations Across Multiple Screens
- Original Musical Composition
We’d like to thank our project partners:
Framing the Holocaust
We produced a dozen versions of the experience, each featuring a different Holocaust survivor. Details were informed by historical research and conscientious collaboration with survivors through the curatorial staff. Visually, the animation style combines realistic forms and lighting with a stylized approach to time. We see the home’s deterioration—the candles blow out, mold spreads across peeling wallpaper, and family portraits fade to darkness.
Audio of first-person survivor testimonies create an intimate, relatable, and evocative experience. These testimonies provide context for life before the war and the descent into occupation. An original score combines with immersive sound design to establish an emotional tenor that complements the voice of the survivor and corresponding visuals.
