Metaverse and Museums, what’s the catch?

See how Museums can benefit from Metaverse

Metaverse and Museums seem a beautiful combination. One of Web 2.0's most inventive applications has been the creation of virtual museums.

These organisations primarily take the form of real-world museums that provide visitors virtual tours. And this all has been possible through Metaverse only. Museums can use metaverse to benefit a lot.

Some of the top museums in the world that have implemented virtual tours include The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, and India's National Museum in New Delhi.

The Google Arts & Culture tours, which were created in conjunction with partner cultural groups throughout the world, are some of the most fascinating and well-liked excursions. Google Arts & Culture's collection of high-resolution images provides "microscopic images," allowing users to zoom in on masterpieces and closely examine any details or hidden features, travel through a virtual gallery that fits in your pocket, or physically wander through some of the most well-known works of art at home.

Similar to this, it is feasible to have several encounters that, for instance, permit users to snap selfies to discover how much they resemble great works of art, answer creative challenges, and bring culture to life by doing so.

Through playful engagement with the collection and (recovering) their sense of presence in connection to it, these efforts seek to bring visitors into closer contact with the art. However, the issue of inadequate funding arises as a result of museums incorporating the metaverse.

Around the world, financial shortages affect museums.

The metaverse, however, allows for the reversal of this disadvantage.

It is axiomatic that smaller galleries and museums tend to draw fewer visitors than their larger counterparts, in part because of the collections' limited availability and in part because of the less amount of designated space.

Large set-aside spaces in museums attract more people because they provide a variety of experiences for their visitors.

On the other hand, as their exhibition rooms become packed, smaller museums that must maximise revenue per unit exhibition area lose visitors.

Smaller museums and galleries lost money as a result of Covid-19 because they were unable to adhere to social distancing standards.

Small galleries and museums could enjoy a dramatic boost in their spatial coverage by supplementing their constrained physical areas with enormous, immersive virtual spaces thanks to a metaverse ecosystem's intrinsic (virtual) land elasticity property.

Large museums with sizable set-aside spaces would also profit since they could design new metaverse applications for their set-aside areas.

In the metaverse, for instance, the elegant garden of Kolkata's Victoria Memorial Hall may be recreated to tell the tale of Viceroy Curzon's struggles to build the museum while appeasing the British Royal family.