Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

By Lizzie Crook The Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin’an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu’s studio, which is yet to open to the public. The Bartlett’s virtual reality (VR) film allows viewers to explore the museum under construction at the foot of Gongchen Mountain in Lin’an, China. It gives hints of the traditional Chinese building techniques that are being utilised in the construction of the building designed by Amateur Architecture Studio. The film formed the heart of the London-based architecture school’s Spring 2019 Guest Exhibition, which offered an...

By John Plummer The Royal Air Force Museum has used virtual reality technology to enable visitors to experience being on board a Lancaster bomber during the Dambusters raid of 1943. The museum worked with the creative technology company All Seeing Eye to create the experience at its north London site. Visitors will be able to go inside a recreation of the interior of a Lancaster and get 360-degree views and audio of the Ruhr dams raid of 1943, Operation Chastise, which was one of the most famous raids of the Second World War and has inspired films and books....

By Adele Peters In a parking lot southwest of Atlanta, a new museum brings visitors into conversation with the systemic issues of homelessness—a growing concern in the U.S., and one that’s not often understood.  “We wanted to create a space where the voices of individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty could speak for themselves,” says Terence Lester, founder of the Dignity Museum and the homelessness-focused nonprofit Love Beyond Walls. The museum, which will open March 23, is built in single shipping container divided into three rooms that each present a different way of understanding homelessness. Through storytelling, the first room...

Museums around the world are celebrating International Museum Day, and in China, museums are seeing a surge in popularity. In 2008, the country started offering free admission at more of its museums, leading to a huge jump in attendance at some facilities. With the number of visitors on the rise, many museums are looking for new ways to bring the past “to life” for visitors. Zheng Yibing shows us how a museum in Sichuan is using technology to accomplish that goal. A mysterious totem and a gold foil featuring the sun and immortal birds, are just some of the...

By MEG O’CONNOR Walk down NW Third Avenue and 25th Street in Wynwood and you’ll be greeted by an alligator, a coyote, a manatee, and more than a dozen other examples of Florida’s dwindling biodiversity. The colorful wildlife makes up one of the scores of new murals that appeared in Wynwood this past December. But there’s a lot more to this painting than meets the eye. The mural uses augmented reality technology. In a few short weeks, passersby will be able to hold their phones up to any animal in the mural and see a short video using a...