With VR glasses through the Kirchner Museum Davos

The Kirchner Museum Davos has digitally captured its entire exhibition and created a 3D world from it. According to the museum, this allows guests an "immersive experience and complete immersion in the exhibition". With suitable virtual reality glasses, visitors will be able to marvel at Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's world of images and colours from the comfort of their sofa. The exhibition can soon be downloaded via the freely accessible "Occulus Store", the makers promise.

Museum guests can already borrow suitable virtual reality glasses at the ticket office and visit the virtual exhibition.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1939) was a German painter and graphic artist and is one of the most important representatives of Expressionism. Kirchner died in Davos.

Soon all exhibitions can be experienced virtually

The new offer was preceded by a process lasting several years in which all 1600 pages of Kirchner's sketchbooks were digitised. The museum is convinced that digitisation opens up new possibilities for researching and communicating art. This had already become clear at last year's exhibition, where museum guests were able to browse through the sketchbooks independently on large touch screens. It was therefore only logical to record this exhibition completely digitally and make it accessible.

In the future, more exhibitions will be recorded with the same technology, so that soon all exhibitions will be available in a digital archive. This will expand the museum experience and reduce the geographical and temporal limits of a museum visit, the museum writes.

VR also for planning

The digitisation was carried out together with the company Hegias AG. According to the start-up, the use of their solution is also highly efficient when it comes to planning an exhibition. With HEGIAS VR, pictures and sculptures can be conveniently moved around in the virtual world as often as desired until they have all found the right place.

Source: HTR / HEGIAS