Thyssen offers immersive virtual reality experience in 'Museum Night'

The next 18 and 19 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 between IED Innovation Lab and HP.

On the occasion of the 'Day and Night of museums', to be held on 18 and the 19 May, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum offers its visitors the opportunity to live a virtual reality experience, thanks to the sponsorship of Endesa.

Using an immersive glasses, visitors will be able to delve into three works from the permanent collection and tour them in a three-dimensional space, making a journey that will take you to transit the meadows of Auvers painted by Van Gogh, the streets of New York that inspired Mondrian or to dive 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 and Hp.

The virtual reality installation will be open to the public on Friday. 18, of 10 to 19 hours, Saturday 19, since the 10 to the 1 early morning, and will continue until the day 28 of May in the usual hours of the museum. On the other hand, Friday 18, International Museum Day, Be, In addition, an open day in which you can visit for free both the permanent collection and the exhibition Sorolla and fashion in its usual schedule.

This first virtual reality experience that takes place in the museum is part of the initiative 'Enter the picture', which was launched last year, next to Endesa, to allow visitors to be photographed inside some works from the Thyssen‐Bornemisza collection, coinciding also with the Day and Night of the museums.

The activity links, likewise, 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.

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