What have covid-19 closures done to art galleries and museums? From virtual tours of mothballed shows to advanced tech like lidar, they are finding new, more personal ways to wow audiences Something is changing for the better. This isn’t a story about how galleries and museums have used technology to save […]

After a year at home, AR works have exploded in popularity with creators and viewers. Traditional artists are using this time to explore AR authoring. Virtual experiences can recreate the places we love and augmented the confines of the four walls we’ve gotten to know a bit too well. As the […]

From dealing with cyberattacks on newly implemented digital offerings, to figuring out how to renegotiate a postponed loan, the coronavirus has raised a whole new crop of issues for museums

Traveling to see world-class collections of musical instruments is one of the many enjoyable activities thwarted by the Covid-19 pandemic. But fortuitously, over the past several years, institutions around the globe have worked to make virtual visits easier than ever.

Although “thumbstoppable” social media content is essential, the online world has dark consequences too, says Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. One year ago, the lights went out in museums across Europe and America. We furloughed staff, cancelled exhibitions, postponed capital projects and sought emergency funding. Today, too […]

As museums worldwide are seeking new business models to stay afloat after the pandemic’s pushbacks, this promising study seems to herald a nearer reopening.

What is it? The Met Unframed is an interactive, gamified, mobile-only virtual experience of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, curated under four themes. Users solve in-experience puzzles to view works of art from the museum as time-limited loans in their own virtual spaces.

VR experiences, such as virtual tours, aren’t exactly new to the museum world. However, they have made a lot of headlines this year. This is due to the various COVID-19 lockdowns that took place across the world. For museums that were forced to close as a result of the global […]

Museums are integrating VR to enhance their exhibits’ storytelling, offering virtual experiences outside of the museum to extend their message and reach an even broader global audience. The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is using VR to give visitors a firsthand view of what camps looked like to envelop the emotional […]

The Badisches Landesmuseum (State Museum of Baden) in the southern German city of Karlsruhe has introduced a new kind of app for museum exhibits. Named My Object, the app provides a perfect match but a slightly less romantic one. “It’s like dating mobile app Tinder for objects in a museum,” says Museum […]