RTL Today - Luxembourg: Visit the Museum of Art and History at home?

On Friday, the National Museum of Art and History presented a new project that will allow the public to visit the museum, without leaving their home.

The museum has launched a new 3D initiative that will allow visitors to glimpse into every corner of the museum, from the comfort of their home. Indeed, the 360 panoramic view makes the solemn museum look more like an exciting dollhouse, filling visitors with youthful excitement.

The main challenges of the project lay in creating a perfectly fluid tour. For the public to be able to embark on an enjoyable virtual visit, all images have to be made as stable as possible and completely synchronised. Another tricky issue is the overwhelming complexity of the vast 7,000 square metre museum. According to Luc Schengen from In-Visible, who assisted the museum with the project, the final 3D model was painstakingly put together, using more than 800 individual scans.

The new 3D tour will ensure wheelchair users do not miss out on their museum experience. In fact, the new model will allow them to virtually visit the parts of the museum that would otherwise have remained inaccessible to the mobile impaired.

The model is also a handy tool for people who may wish to prepare, in greater detail, future physical visits to the museum. This way, tourists especially, or students, can obtain information about the different exhibitions ahead of time. The director of the museum, Michel Polfer, also emphasised that the 3D images will allow visitors to maintain a sense of orientation, during their visit.

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The museum is currently planning to further develop their 3D model. Representatives said that they would like to include relevant links to make it possible to click on individual art pieces so that the visitor can receive additional information about paintings and sculptures, in real time.

The new project will also allow the electronic archiving of past exhibitions.

If you're interested in learning more about the Museum of Art and History, you can now explore it now at www.mnha.lu