TMS team developed a suspended relief of Saxony composed of five translucent PETG tiles, hung from computer-controlled steel cables in the open atrium. Eight ceiling-recessed projectors map a continuous film across the moving surface while a carefully timed sound design supports the change from primeval nature to dense cultural landscape.

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Every hour, the model travels roughly 13 metres vertically through the atrium, its flowing movements aligned with the media timeline. The kinetic motion, projection, and sound are treated as a single dramaturgy, so that the model reads as one coherent, time-based image rather than technology on display.

During the hourly show, visitors look up from the foyer or down from the exhibition floors as the model slowly rises and sinks through space, the projected imagery shifting from ice ages and river systems to settlements, rail lines, and industrial structures. The sculpture becomes a slow, spatial film you can walk around, with different perspectives on each level.

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Between shows, the model rests in the foyer. Around it, eight touchscreens allow visitors to explore themes such as geology, nature, water, archaeology, population, industry, culture, and mobility. Selected information and maps can be projected back onto the landscape, so the relief constantly changes and visitors actively shape what is shown

The museum needed a central exhibit that could link foyer and exhibition floors while conveying an immense timespan in a direct, intuitive way. Rather than adding another film or graphic panel, the brief called for a physical, spatial “memory machine” that would embody Saxony itself and show how geology, water, settlement, industry, and mobility have reshaped the region.

The core challenge was to compress complex archaeological and historical content into a kinetic form that remained legible from multiple viewing points and accessible to all age groups.