Geo-Time Travel
A Time Travel through the geological history of the Austrian-Moravian border region (GeoTT)
Projekt-ID: ATCZ00013
Focus: education, culture and tourism
Project implementation period: 1.2.2024 - 31.1.2027
Project implementation period: 1.2.2024 - 31.1.2027
Project partner: Natural History Museum Vienna (lead), Fossilienwelt Weinviertel in Stetten, Moravské zemské muzeum (MZM) in Brno
The Austrian-Moravian border region combines a unique heritage of the history of the earth. The development of this landscape
is documented over a period of 380 million years in a geographically relatively small area. It ranges from the bizarre reefs
of the Palaeozoic Era to the tropical lagoons of the Mesozoic Ear and the cold mammoth steppe of the Ice Age. The INTERREG ATCZ00013 GeoTT project enables a physical and digital journey through time bringing these past habitats to life. The journey
through time is designed as a one- or two-day tour between Vienna and Brno and offers a new way of exploring the region.
There will be interactive stations and video animations at the three partner institutions as well as 17 information panels
at important sites located between Vienna and Brno. The connecting element of the project is a mobile phone app that allows
visitors to immerse themselves in the virtual worlds and experience the past environments with their often strange organisms.
Thanks to this digital backbone, the time travel is also accessible from any location and without barriers.
At the NHM Vienna, visitors are invited to dive in immersive worlds with the help of an 11-metre-long LED wall with an installation
by Ars Electronia Futurlab. A scanning station integrated into a large, mobile drawing table allows visitors to actively create
different virtual worlds that are immediately visible on the LED wall.
In the Fossilienwelt Weinviertel, a new adventure playground will inspire a young audience in particular for the geological past. A giant walk-in shark and
a snail forest with net tunnels and slides provide a playful immersion into the tropical world that prevailed in Lower Austria
16.5 million years ago. The history of life is presented along an interactive, 48-meter-long imnstallation.
Animations of past worlds will also be on display in the Moravian Provincial Museum, where a digital microscope will give visitors a completely new perspective on fossils. The biggest attraction will be a
model of the jaw of the giant shark Otodus megalodon, whose teeth were found in the Tertiary sediments of the entire region.
The project intensifies the contacts between NHM Vienna, MZM and Fossilienwelt on a personal and institutional level and will
thus appeal to new groups of visitors. The project offers all partners the opportunity to significantly increase their visibility
and at the same time arouse public interest in scientific research. In addition, the project partners expect positive impulses
for tourism development in the Austrian-Moravian border region.
