Panasonic & Display Americas Powers Refik Anadol's Smithsonian Dreams Experience on the National Mall

	The installation came to life with 44 Panasonic PT-RQ45K Series 4K projectors which, the company says, offered the brightness, image quality, and color accuracy necessary to transform the Castle's 145' structure into a monumental digital canvas.

Panasonic Projector & Display Americas powered Smithsonian Dreams, a large-scale landmark public art experience that transformed the Smithsonian Castle into an immersive, AI-driven visual experience on the National Mall in Washington, DC from July 17-18. Created by internationally acclaimed media artist Refik Anadol and presented by the Smithsonian, the two-night activation used a custom AI system trained on nearly two centuries of Smithsonian collections to project evolving digital artwork across the historic facade.

Through a combination of projection mapping, AI, sound, and Panasonic's advanced projection technology, Smithsonian Dreams reimagined one of the nation's most recognizable cultural landmarks as a living archive of human imagination, showcasing what's possible when technology and human creativity work together.

Drawing from millions of digitized artifacts, manuscripts, photographs, scientific records, and artworks from the Smithsonian's collections, Refik Anadol Studio's custom AI system reinterpreted nearly two centuries of knowledge into a continuously evolving visual experience.

The installation came to life with 44 Panasonic PT-RQ45K Series 4K projectors which, the company says, offered the brightness, image quality, and color accuracy necessary to transform the Castle's 145' structure into a monumental digital canvas. Given the scale of the project, projectors were positioned throughout the National Mall, including one installation point more than 700' from the Castle, highlighting both the complexity of the activation and the precision required to execute it.