The Panasonic National Museum of Qatar installation has been renewed through a major technology upgrade, as Panasonic and its subsidiary HIVE Media Control deepen a partnership designed to enhance efficiency, sustainability and long-term storytelling across ten immersive galleries. The National Museum of Qatar, widely regarded as one of the world’s pioneering immersive museums, relies on large-scale laser projection to bring its galleries of natural history, culture and art to life.
128 laser projectors, one media platform
At the heart of the Panasonic National Museum of Qatar project sit 128 Panasonic PT-RQ25K 3-Chip DLP 4K laser projectors, combined with a next-generation HIVE media platform. Together, the system processes more than 21 billion pixels of visual content every second, wrapping the museum’s curved gallery walls in the kind of floor-to-ceiling imagery that has made the venue a reference point for immersive exhibition design since it opened.
Simplifying installation and long-term operation
Beyond raw pixel output, the renewed Panasonic National Museum of Qatar deployment is built around simplifying installation and long-term operation. A next-generation HIVE media platform manages content scheduling, calibration and playback across all ten galleries from a unified system, reducing the operational overhead of running dozens of laser projectors around the clock in a public museum environment. Panasonic says the upgrade was designed with efficiency and sustainability specifically in mind, aiming to keep the immersive experience running reliably for years to come.
A reference project for HIVE and Panasonic
The renewal follows Panasonic’s acquisition of HIVE Media Control, which brought HIVE’s show-control and media-server expertise directly into the Panasonic portfolio. The Panasonic National Museum of Qatar project stands as one of the clearest demonstrations of that combined offering: a single vendor now responsible for both the laser projection hardware and the media platform orchestrating what visitors actually see on the walls around them, from natural-history dioramas to large-scale archival film and artefact displays.
For museums and cultural institutions evaluating large-scale immersive projection, the Qatar installation offers a real-world case study in how 3-Chip DLP 4K laser hardware and a purpose-built media platform can be run together at scale, across ten separate gallery spaces, without a patchwork of competing systems.
Pricing and availability
Panasonic’s PT-RQ25K projectors and the HIVE media platform are supplied on a project basis to museums, cultural venues and large-scale AV integrators; pricing depends on the number of projectors, media-server configuration and installation scope. Interested venues and integrators can request project consultations through HIVE Media Control.
Key specifications
- 128x Panasonic PT-RQ25K 3-Chip DLP 4K laser projectors
- Next-generation HIVE media platform for content, scheduling and playback management
- More than 21 billion pixels of visual content processed every second
- Deployed across ten immersive galleries at the National Museum of Qatar
- Upgrade focused on installation simplicity, sustainability and long-term reliability
