Art and digital experience come together in the new multimedia exhibition at the Prado Museum

The 'Dolphin Treasure' offers a digital experience with interactives in the room and audiovisual projection recorded in 4K. As a technological collaborator, Samsung has presented the museum's first application developed for a permanent installation available for smartphone and tablet.

The past 25 In June, one of the most notable facilities of the year opened its doors in the Prado Museum, he Dolphin Treasure. An exhibition in which he has participated again Samsung and for which an ambitious digitalization process has been developed for two years. It is the first permanent installation of the Prado Museum that combines work and digital experience to enjoy the collection in all its splendor.

"He Dolphin Treasure represents a milestone in our relationship with the Prado Museum: It is the first time we collaborate with our technologies in a permanent museum installation, being this, besides, the first with a strong digital and interactive component in the main museum in the country and one of the most important in the world”, comments Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Head of Brand Strategy and Innovation at Samsung Spain.

Samsung has developed, next to the Prado Museum, the first decorative arts application for smartphones and tablets, that allows you to know all the details of the 254 parts, which together with another case preserved in the Louvre, make up the treasure. Users can explore all the works thanks to digitization with 360º images and zoom in on each one of them in high resolution. In addition, The application indexes the materials with which the works were created such as rock crystal, lapislazuli o gema. A proposal to contextualize the installation before, during or after the visit.

Besides, The new assembly of this installation is accompanied by an interactive application and audiovisual production The Dolphin's Treasure, developed in collaboration between the team led by Leticia Azcue, Head of Conservation of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Prado Museum and Samsung.

This audiovisual piece has been produced in 4K technology and thanks to the latest digital techniques in photogrammetry and 3D modeling., where the history of the Treasure is told from the time the Great Dauphin gathered it until the present day. This production can be seen on the screen installed in the room installed in the room, as well as on another larger screen next to the visitor access on the ground floor to inform about the new installation on the second floor of the Museum..

On the other hand, The interactive application includes information to know the data one by one and in detail, description and history of all works, including items such as cases, historical photographs and similar works in other collections. This interactive experience can be enjoyed in three areas distributed in the room.

This experience has been developed during more than two years of working with a team of more than 60 professionals. During the same, more than 11.000 digitally treated photographs. In addition, have been made 27 reconstructions of missing pieces.