06/25/2026
Some moments in history are best understood not by reading about them—but by physically experiencing them.
For the Museum of the City of New York’s “The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution” exhibition, we designed The Toppling of King George III at Bowling Green—an interactive installation that invites visitors to work together to pull down the king’s 4,000-pound statue using a pair of real h**p ropes.
Behind the scenes, a custom digitally encoded pulley system generates haptic feedback, allowing visitors to feel the weight and resistance of the monument as they pull.
Rather than simply telling history, we wanted visitors to embody it—to experience the collective effort, symbolism, and emotion behind one of the defining acts of the American Revolution.
This project reminds us that the most memorable museum experiences happen when storytelling extends beyond the screen and into the body.
Client: Museum of the City of New York
Exhibition: The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution
Team: KUDOS KASA Collective
Creative Lead: John Kudos Robert de Saint Phalle
Video: Samuel Sachs Morgan & Fahnon Bennett
CreativeTechnology MCNY AmericanRevolution
