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Warsaw Fotoplastikon

Warsaw is among those cities most affected by the Second World War, but photos and memories of the period before the war present in this exhibition will make you see Poland from another point of view.

Fotoplastikon aka “Kaiserpanorama” works like the famous stereoscope, creating a realistic version of the life of those times.

Photos with almost a hundred years of history behind them.

The Warsaw Fotoplastikon is a stereoscopic theater based on the Kaiserpanorama system of rotating stereoscopic images.

 

Operating in the same location since 1905, it is the oldest stereoscopic theater in Europe still operating in its original location. Today it is a branch of the Warsaw Uprising Museum.

The Warsaw Fotoplastikon has 24 fixed stereoscopic viewports. A visitor sits in a window around the circumference of the car.

Each image, from a sequence of 48 three-dimensional stereo images, appears for 15 seconds before moving on to the next one. Above each window is a window showing an illuminated tab with a brief description of the scene below.

The scenes are organized by themes, such as a travelogue in distant lands or representations of historical events. The recorded music related to the theme plays in the background.

The Fotoplastikon uses a slightly modified version of the Kaiserpanorama peepshow system, which differs in having 24 viewports instead of 25 in the Kaiserpanorama system.

Map: Warsaw Fotoplastikon