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Panometer Dresden

The Panometer occupies a sandstone gasometer of 1880, the work of Theodor Friedrich, a student of Gottfried Semper. It served as a low-pressure storage tank for the city's gas, with a capacity of 30,000 cubic metres, and closed in 1973. Since 2006 it has been the second permanent venue for Yadegar Asisi's 360° panoramas. The cylinder is 24 metres high to the eaves and the interior dome reaches 39 metres. Since 27 March 2026 it has been showing GREAT BARRIER REEF, a fictional underwater vision of the planet's largest coral reef, with corals and shoals of fish amid blue and green waters. The panorama's surface area exceeds 3,000 square metres. Asisi created it from tens of thousands of photographs and sketches from expeditions with the filmmaker Ben Cropp. The lighting alternates between day and night, with a soundtrack by Eric Babak, and an exhibition explains the reef's biodiversity and its threats.

Things to do at Panometer Dresden: 4 missions

• Wait for the light to change between day and nightStay in one spot until the lighting shifts from day to night and compare how the colours change.
• Photograph the exterior of the 1880 gasometerWalk around the sandstone building and look at its cylindrical form, 24 metres high to the eaves.
• Take in the Great Barrier Reef panoramaGo up to the platform and walk the full circle of the underwater panorama, looking for shoals of fish among the corals.
• Explore the exhibition on the reefVisit the exhibition that accompanies the panorama and note down one threat facing the reef.

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