The Thyssen offers an immersive virtual reality experience on the 'Night of the Museums'

The next 18 y 19 of may, the museum will allow visitors to live a virtual reality experience using immersive glasses. This initiative has been launched with the sponsorship of Endesa and the collaboration of IED Innovation Lab and HP.

On the occasion of 'Museum Day and Night', that will be celebrated on 18 and the 19 of may, he Thyssen‐Bornemisza National Museum offers its visitors the opportunity to live a virtual reality experience, thanks to the sponsorship of Endesa.

Using immersive glasses, Visitors will be able to delve into three works from the permanent collection and explore them in a three-dimensional space, taking a trip that will take them to the Auvers meadows painted by Van Gogh, the streets of New York that inspired Mondrian or to immerse yourself among the flowers and insects of a Dutch still life.

The activity allows the user to move freely inside the paintings and explore everything around them., producing a sensory experience that takes you to those disparate places. This project has been developed with IED Innovation Lab y HP.

The virtual reality installation will be open to the public on Friday 18, of 10 a 19 hours, on saturday 19, from the 10 until the 1 of the morning, and will continue until the day 28 May during normal museum hours. Besides, on Friday 18, International Museum Day, it will be, besides, an open day in which both the permanent collection and the Sorolla and fashion exhibition can be visited for free during their usual hours.

This first virtual reality experience to be held at the museum is part of the 'Enter the Picture' initiative., which was launched last year, together with Endesa, to allow visitors to take photographs inside some works from the Thyssen‐Bornemisza collection, also coinciding with Museum Day and Night.

The activity links, in addition, with 'The light of painting', another proposal made together with the energy company to celebrate the 25 anniversary of the museum that took to the streets 12 masterpieces through 3D videos, with which to see the paintings from a different perspective.