Ferropolis is an open-air museum and festival hotspot: Five enormous excavators stand in the so-called Iron City on a peninsula in the middle of Lake Gremmin – this impressive backdrop attracts not only tourists but also several thousand festival-goers annually who visit Ferropolis for festivals like Melt, Splash, and others.

The mining history is woven into every fiber here and can now be experienced in a multimedia format as well. In collaboration with RFE Film and PxB Studios, NeoNext has enhanced the 30 kV station with an interactive 3D model and installed a film projection right in the control cabin of a 15-meter-high excavator.

The multimedia exhibition elements are the new highlights on the peninsula. In the 30 kV station, you can see a model of the Golpa-Nord open-cast mine – an intricately restored topography spanning nearly 8 square meters – which, when interactively controlled, tells the story of the landscape through a beautifully illustrated animation. The model is interactive and provides its accompanying narrative in both German and English for international visitors.

The story of transformation is also told elsewhere: In the control cabin of the Medusa conveyor a film projection combines modern animation with historical archival footage from the former East Germany. Emotionally guided and complemented by the fascinating acoustics within this colossal piece of metal, the 14-minute film takes you through the transition from the fossil energy era into a sustainable epoch – all within an authentically significant place of transformation.