We extend the period to visit our immersive space - Barracks U - Digital Culture Space until 30 November 2023! Be part of the International Festival of Digital Culture and Heritage and join us to discover Timișoara through new eyes! Travel digitally through the city and learn the story of the people, places, buildings and heritage of the city in new ways using immersive virtual and mixed reality technologies.

The guided tours are FREE and are available to all those who want to discover Timișoara from another time, taking a trip back in time. We are waiting for you at the Barracks from Wednesday to Sunday, from 16:00 to 20:00.

U Barracks - Digital Culture Space is an immersive cultural space, open to all those who want to experience the stories of Timisoara, guided by augmented and virtual reality technologies. Looking down on the city from above, visitors discover the history of the city's 5 emblematic districts, revealed through 3D videos and 3D digitised objects of the museum's heritage. They can visit through an immersive 360° experience buildings, squares, monuments and specific locations of Timișoara with the help of VR goggles and map through mediated experiences the path of the Heritage under the Spotlight project. Discover the Iosefin (2019), Elisabetin (2020), Fabric (2021), Cetate (2022) and Giroc (2023) neighbourhoods in virtual reality and through the dedicated video installation created in collaboration by Rafael Leucuța and Diana Andone.

Victims can also enjoy the project Patterns of poetry - a digital installation that explores Timișoara through poetry and colour. Created by artist Marius Jurca (13m10j), is an interactive installation with custom software, featuring 14 locations of the city in an artistically anvangardist way. Based on 14 poems created by writer Robert Șerban and on distinct colour palettes, Marius has managed to find a new way for the city to be promoted to visitors of all ages. So far more than 40 guided toursevery weekend and on request.

For more details about the Digital Culture Space, read HERE or on our Facebook, at events. 

Digital components of the project are accessible online at https://spotlight-timisoara.eu/ and through mobile applications which can be downloaded from Android and Apple stores by searching for "Spotlight Timisoara" or scanning the QR code attached to this release.

• App link for Android users: https://is.gd/SjiIgv  
• App link for iOS users: https://is.gd/y6JxeV  

Event information is also available on:

• Web page:: https://spotlight-timisoara.eu/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpotlightHeritageTimisoara/
• Twitter: @spotlight_TM21
• Instagram: @spotlight_tm

Spotlight Heritage Timișoara / Patrimoniul sub reflectoare is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timișoara realized in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Cultural Programme Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Cultural project co-financed by the Center for Projects of the Municipality of Timișoara, Timiș County Council, Ministry of Culture, Romania, EEA and Norway Grants.