Immersive polar exhibition with icy landscapes projected across curved walls

Case study

Polar Experience

Berlin. Oberhausen

At the heart of the exhibition is a room we built. Step inside, and the walls disappear.

POLAR EXPERIENCE is an immersive exhibition about the Arctic and Antarctic, told as an expedition. It premiered at Arena Berlin in December 2025, drew more than 120.000 visitors, and opened its second edition at the OBEX in Oberhausen in May 2026.

It was developed with polar scientists including the Alfred-Wegener-Institut and Prof. Dr. Markus Rex, and it is the first of seven planned ClimateXtremes exhibitions about the planet's most extreme places. Cold comes first, then rain forest, and the rest. The thread never changes: people protect what they have stood inside.

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Blue water ripples cover the floor around glowing ice-cube seating

What we built

Ice landscapes in every direction. Sound that arrives before you have named it. A polar bear filling the wall, eyes closed, entirely unbothered by the city outside. For a second you forget which city you are in.

TSC's experience design team created the 360° room at its heart: high-resolution projection, spatial audio by Studio Kreuzberg and Ali Schwarz, choreographed visuals, and interactive elements that respond to your movements. Real research, real animals, real consequences.

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The challenge

Take abstract climate data, the kind that usually lives in charts, and make it something a visitor feels in the chest. Hand a ten-year-old and their grandparent the same facts, in the same room, and send both out knowing something they did not know before.