International Panorama Council

The International Panorama Council IPC is a global network of museum directors, museum managers, artists, restorers and historians that deals with the historical and contemporary expression of art and media phenomenon panorama. As an NGO it connects around 250 experts from around the world, which are either representatives of museum institutions and research institutes or are but private researchers and enthusiastic amateur.

The organization was founded in 1992 as a European Panorama Conference in Szeged / Hungary and renamed Altötting / Germany in International Panorama Conference 1998. Since 2003, International Panorama Council is used as the label.

The main objectives of the International Panorama Council IPC are to ensure the survival of the historical panoramas, the expansion and dissemination of knowledge about the arts and media phenomenon panorama as well as the initiation of new interpretations of the phenomenon in the contemporary context.

The International Panorama Council brings in campaigns for the preservation of historical panoramas. 2007 and 2008 led to a public relations and lobbying campaign in Innsbruck / Austria to rescue the endangered Innsbruck giant circular painting and a successful campaign to save the endangered by construction Panorama Mesdag. In addition, the IPC aims to recognize a selection of particularly significant panoramas of the UNESCO world heritage. In July 2008, the Waterloo panorama on the Belgian Tentative List ( candidate list ) of UNESCO was added thereto in a first step. In February 2009, the Panorama Mesdag introduced in the Netherlands an application for inclusion on the Dutch Tentative List.

IPC is active in restoration, research, financing and marketing of panoramas.

Annual Meetings

Since its founding as a European Panorama Conference annual symposia have been conducted around the globe.