View legendary artifacts like the Rosetta Stone on a virtual stroll through the British Museum. Gaze up at the Sistine Chapel's divine ceiling without the crowds at the Vatican Museums. Explore mini ...

When you visit a museum, you’re not only surrounded by visual displays, but by sound as well. The shuffling of feet, people talking, a guide explaining something. It’s never entirely quiet. But in ...

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If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections.

The goal of the museum is not to expand its collection but to gradually empty itself as the missing objects are eventually recovered. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

Are you going through culture withdrawal now that museums are closed? Get your fix with the next best thing: virtual tours. Many of New Jersey's art museums have posted tours of current exhibitions on ...

Museums are entering a new era where digital replicas, 3D scans, virtual galleries, and immersive spaces can expand access to ...

For all the textbooks and museums at our disposal, sometimes it can still be difficult to really imagine what life was like in an earlier time. Visitors to the British Museum this weekend, however, ...

Museum curators planning to develop virtual exhibits online should choose communication and navigation technologies that match the experience they want to offer their visitors, according to a team of ...

"This participatory art-based activity could become a model that could be offered in museums and arts institutions worldwide to promote active and healthy aging," said lead author Dr. Olivier Beauchet ...

Since the pandemic first forced museums into lockdown last spring, a growing number of institutions have been trying to supplement lost income by selling tickets to experience their exhibitions online ...

No digital system has yet solved the problem of physical presence. Even people who enjoy virtual tours often acknowledge that a screen changes the encounter with an object. Texture, weight, and scale, ...