They say life imitates art, and that holds true even for centuries-old classical paintings and contemporary selfies. A new feature in the Google Arts & Culture app will analyze your selfie and attempt to match it to a painting on display in one of the Google’s partner museums around the country.

It wasn’t that it was the first museum to attempt to “go digital.” It was that the Cleveland Museum of Art did it in a meaningful way that went beyond augmented reality phone apps that, when you point your phone toward an object you like, superimpose an informative fact over […]

Apps that involve uploading one’s face, getting feedback and sharing the results aren’t always a great idea. But the latest iteration of the Google Arts & Culture app, which promises to scour more than 1,200 museums in over 70 countries to find one’s art doppelganger, has become a viral hit.

The BBC is launching an augmented reality app that will enable people to explore historical artefacts from UK museums in virtual exhibitions.

Long before face filters and dancing hot dogs could alter the way we see the world and ourselves, there was already a group of people experimenting with the notion of the “real”: surrealist artists.

There’s a tremendous opportunity, especially around technology like augmented reality, to engage visitors.’

In this central space, you can relax on bean bag chairs or interact with the pets by moving your body or motioning on an app that was specifically created for the exhibition (more on that below). If you get close enough, bubbles appear on-screen, mimicking your movements like a digital […]

While a new museum to house the original torch of the Statue of Liberty is under construction on Liberty Island and scheduled to open in May 2019, New York Times readers can now view the sculpture in their own space through augmented reality.

Many fine art museums around the world offer mobile apps, and most of them are free. They boast a variety of features, including virtual tours, visitor information, details about works of art, audio descriptions, and more.

The Pizza Experience, a 14,000-square-foot pop-up with pie-themed interactive exhibits, is popping up in Chicago and Los Angeles. San Diego will soon get an entire museum dedicated to the beloved avocado. And the monumental Museum of Ice Cream, which started all this insanity, remains sold out as it tours the country in a […]