The Museum Burg Zug acquires two virtual reality goggles

In future, the Museum Burg Zug and other castles in Switzerland can also be visited with virtual reality glasses via the 360° Swiss Heritage project.

Anyone who has ever wanted to feel like a damsel or a noble knight wandering around their local castles now has the chance to do so in VR. In the 360° Swiss Heritage app developed for the project, there is a main menu with currently three castles to choose from, which can be viewed digitally and in a static, 360-degree all-round view: Zug Castle Museum, Spiez Castle and Waldegg Castle in Solothurn. Using a cursor, you select the desired castle and manoeuvre through the offer as you please. Rooms, flights of stairs, gardens and castle moats can be experienced more than viewed.

Glasses should arouse curiosity

"The two glasses are a marketing tool for us," explains Miriam Wismer-de Sepibus, who is responsible for marketing and communication at the Museum Burg Zug. The idea is to make people curious about visiting the exhibition. "One instrument will be accessible to visitors in the museum. We will take the other one to information events, trade fairs and other events to present the Museum Burg Zug to the guests in an impressive way.

Visitors to the castle can also experience the rooms in person without digital aids. "But here they gain an impression of the other two castles and perhaps get the desire to visit them as well," Wismer hopes. Later, additional digital tours could be loaded onto the device.

The glasses may be tried out

The project was developed in collaboration with the Swiss Society for Art History (GSK). The project aims to bring new magic, combined with a touch of magic, to our perception of mythical Swiss buildings. The GSK had it developed and shares the costs with the participating Swiss museums. Technically, the 360° Swiss Heritage project was developed with DNA Studio from Bulle.