The Panorama
The Murten panorama is an oil painting on canvas measuring around 10x100m, painted at the end of the 19th century..
The canvas is made up of numerous sections that were sewn together in height to achieve the desired size (panels of around 2 meters wide and 10 meters high). The complete painting consists of three rolls of similar lengths (just over 31 m per roll for a total of 94.4 m, equivalent to almost 1,000 m²).
The total weight of the canvas alone is estimated at 1.5 tonnes, i.e. about 500 kg per roll without external elements such as rollers and trolleys. Since Expo.02, the painting has been stored in a Swiss Army depot, which is not open to the public.