Special Exhibition at the National Iksan Museum – <Baekje’s Light: The Stone Lantern of Mireuksa>

Digital Restoration and Immersive Content for the Stone Lantern of Mireuksa Temple Site

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video

Year

2021

Client

National Iksan Museum

Shown at

Special exhibition hall

Overview of the project

In Iksan, North Jeolla Province, stand the remains of Mireuksa Temple — once the largest Buddhist temple of the Baekje Kingdom. Among the surviving artifacts is a fragmented stone lantern, believed to have stood in front of the temple’s western pagoda. Despite its historical and artistic value, the lantern had long remained in disassembled fragments, making it difficult to fully appreciate its original form or function.

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Digital Simulation

Due to the weight and fragility of the actual stone components, physical restoration posed great challenges. Instead, TRIC implemented digital simulation techniques using 3D scanning and modeling technologies. This allowed researchers and visitors to observe how the lantern may have originally appeared, offering new insights into its historical context and sacred purpose.

Digital Simulation

Due to the weight and fragility of the actual stone components, physical restoration posed great challenges. Instead, TRIC implemented digital simulation techniques using 3D scanning and modeling technologies. This allowed researchers and visitors to observe how the lantern may have originally appeared, offering new insights into its historical context and sacred purpose.

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Lighting the Truth

The exhibition’s central immersive content, Lighting the Truth, combines storytelling with media art to walk viewers through the restoration journey. The piece symbolically re-lights the lantern, reflecting Baekje’s spiritual and architectural sophistication through a poetic, multimedia narrative.

Lighting the Truth

The exhibition’s central immersive content, Lighting the Truth, combines storytelling with media art to walk viewers through the restoration journey. The piece symbolically re-lights the lantern, reflecting Baekje’s spiritual and architectural sophistication through a poetic, multimedia narrative.

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Restoration Planning

To revive the significance of the lantern, TRIC analyzed 13 surviving stone fragments and digitally proposed a restoration plan. Through research into the architectural style of Baekje stone lanterns and comparative studies of similar artifacts, a detailed reconstruction was virtually modeled.

Restoration Planning

To revive the significance of the lantern, TRIC analyzed 13 surviving stone fragments and digitally proposed a restoration plan. Through research into the architectural style of Baekje stone lanterns and comparative studies of similar artifacts, a detailed reconstruction was virtually modeled.

Restoration Planning

To revive the significance of the lantern, TRIC analyzed 13 surviving stone fragments and digitally proposed a restoration plan. Through research into the architectural style of Baekje stone lanterns and comparative studies of similar artifacts, a detailed reconstruction was virtually modeled.

Exhibition Information

The final restoration visuals and six related immersive media works were presented at the Baekje’s Light: The Stone Lantern of Mireuksa special exhibition, held from October 19, 2021 to February 6, 2022, at the National Iksan Museum.

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