Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience

New for 2025, visitors will leave the main attraction space through new exit rooms which extend the magical world of both artists.

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00:00Beyond Monet, the immersive experience has been seen by thousands of people at venues

00:05across North America and now following in Beyond Van Gogh's footsteps is being premiered here in

00:11Liverpool. This will actually be the European premiere. It's only been seen in North America

00:16so that is due in part to the incredible reception we had last year from the exhibition centre

00:22Liverpool and just the people of Liverpool. They really embraced the experience coming down to the

00:28Albert docks it was just incredible to see people that were kind of from all walks of life so we

00:33knew when we were planning to come to the UK that Liverpool had to be the place for it. On display

00:39at Exhibition Centre Liverpool until Friday 15th of August both Monet and Van Gogh's works are being

00:44staged on alternate days throughout its run. We do a lot of surveys of people that come to

00:50come to experience it and you have people from all different kind of walks of life that have

00:56different experiences you have people leaving crying you have people saying you know they've

00:59had the happiest moments we got a few engagements because people feel so inspired kind of once

01:03they're into the immersive room so yeah really the focal point is the 10 000 square foot immersive

01:08room where you feel like you're walking inside each of the artist's paintings and we've really

01:13carefully gone in to recreate their brush strokes. In the immersive impressionist extravaganza cutting edge

01:20technology breathes new life into more than 400 of the legendary french painters artworks taking visitors

01:28on an audio visual journey through his captivating and colourful world. It's really an overwhelming feeling

01:35it's kind of and mixed within the the soundtrack as well it does it gives you this 360 feeling where

01:40you feel like you're taken back into the 1800s in France and you know you feel like you're kind of

01:45watching these artists create in real time and then it kind of allows people to have their own emotions

01:51towards it. This exhibition brings together some of the artists most famous canvases including poppies

01:58impression sunrise and his exquisite water lily series with lesser-known works which all swirl around

02:05the space offering a fresh new look at much-loved masterpieces and a deeper connection with Monet,

02:11his subjects and his innovative technique. Taking inspiration from Musée de l'Orendry in Paris,

02:18the designated home of Monet's work, visitors can freely roam the infinity room where they're transported

02:23inside the paintings themselves to the accompaniment of an original school. A programme of other

02:28complementary activities are also taking place within the immersive experiences. We had yoga sessions last

02:35year where you could come and experience the exhibit you know before it opened and do yoga in the

02:40immersive room which were so popular so we're coming back and we're doing yoga we're doing pilates we're

02:46also doing breath work and we're also doing paint and sip nights. New for 2025 visitors will leave the main

02:52attraction space through new exit rooms which extend the magical world of both artists.