The National Geographic Society and Panasonic Projector & Display Americas LLC have partnered to bring Panasonic’s advanced projection and display technology to the National Geographic Museum of Exploration. The collaboration creates dynamic, story-driven environments with each experience designed to make science and discovery feel immersive and build understanding, empathy and action toward protecting the planet.
Panasonic’s technology anchors several of the museum’s most ambitious spaces.
- Panasonic 4K projection mapping transforms the Courtyard and Pavilion facade into a bioluminescent environment each evening for “Wonders of Our World: Ocean.” The 17-minute nighttime experience utilizes Panasonic’s cutting-edge technology to display dynamic projections on the facade of the museum entrance Pavilion.
- In the museum’s redesigned Grosvenor Auditorium, nine Panasonic 4K projectors display visuals across surfaces integrated into the theater's architecture and four overhead ribbons to showcase a daily immersive media show.
- In the “Photo Ark: Animals of Earth” exhibition, 30 Panasonic 4K projectors bring National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore’s photography to life, helping visitors connect with endangered species.
- In the National Geographic Learning Launchpad Powered by Cengage, up to 30 students can interact at once with a display that lets them follow an animal’s movement patterns.
- In “Geoverse,” a 270-degree theater utilizes 16 Panasonic 4K projectors, three projection walls and a projection floor to give visiting school groups an immersive way to explore geography.
- In The Archives, interactive displays, digital research stations and an 18-foot projection screen show more than a century of iconic global expeditions and discoveries in vivid detail.
On Oct. 1, 2026, the Society celebrated Panasonic’s support of the Museum of Exploration, where guests toured the state-of-the-art audiovisual technology woven across the space and witnessed firsthand how Panasonic technology powers immersive storytelling across the museum’s permanent exhibitions and public amenities. The partnership’s reach extends throughout the campus, elevating visitor experiences not only inside exhibitions, galleries and the Courtyard, but also in the Explorer’s Eatery, Pavilion and surrounding galleries. Together, Panasonic and the Society are inspiring curiosity, encouraging discovery and empowering the next generation of changemakers.
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