Overview
- The IDEAL Centre d'Arts Digitals returns to its Poblenou home and will reopen to the public on Friday, 6 November 2026 after eight months of renovation that added about 400 square metres for a roughly 2,000 m² public footprint.
- Dinosaurium centers on a roughly 20-minute, 8K immersive film scored by Rafael Plana and recorded with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra to present reconstructed Mesozoic environments around the visitor.
- The show includes a metaverse/VR area where headsets enable proximity-driven AI interactions with smaller creatures and a separate VR sequence that simulates the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs.
- Producers developed content with scientific counsel from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, using recent research such as melanosome-based color reconstructions and integrating scent work by Fundación Ernesto Ventós across five staged sections.
- Layers of Reality brings international scale to the presentation, and the team says the project intentionally negotiated artistic spectacle and palaeontological rigor, a mix that could shape how audiences learn about recent fossil science through immersive art-technology displays.