New VR Experience Takes You Inside Notre Dame Before and After the Devastating 2019 Fire

Arnaud Houette, FlyView’s director, told The Art Newspaper, “We want people to have the impression of being inside Notre Dame and feel the strong emotion everyone felt last year.”

The documentary experience features drone images of the fire itself, as recorded by the city of Paris, shots of the scaffolding, and views of the interior. The experience intertwines footage recorded before and after the incident to highlight the immense damage, and includes interviews with Paris’ mayor, the cathedral’s rector, and General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who heads the reconstruction efforts. Participants will even get to see the cathedral’s attic and sacristy, two areas usually inaccessible to the public.

The experience costs about $23, with a portion of the proceeds going toward Notre Dame’s reconstruction.