911 Gallery
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911 Electronic Media Arts, Inc., is a not-for-profit
organization. The gallery's goals include promoting public awareness and appreciation of
digital media in the fine arts, and encouraging the development of innovative, quality
digital art. |
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Miami Museum of Science - VirtualTour
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This Virtual Tour was last updated on August 27, 1999. The
Museum galleries are currently under construction to make way for BusyTown and Smithsonian
Expeditions. The Virtual Tour will be updated when these exhibits are opened late
October and early November. |
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Art of Tibet
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The Himalayan Art Project of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation has as its goal
to preserve the sacred Buddhist art of the Himalayas.This art emanates from the sacred
traditions around which the profound and ancient cultures of Tibet and its neighbors have
flourished over the last thousand years. There are more thangkas on view at tibetart.com
than there are presently on display in all the museums in the western world. Most of the
thangkas remaining in the world are now outside Tibet. The majority reside in private or
museum collections where many are kept in storage, unavailable for study or enjoyment.
This website seeks to turn this tide of exclusion by opening its virtual halls to all.
Visitors to this site can view numerous beautiful and distinct works of Tibetan art and
zoom in to see more detail using Live Picture technology. |
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru - De Young Museum (link broken 08/31/2000)
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Take a Virtual Tour of the spectacular Incan ruins of Machu Picchu.Click the spots on
the map for a unique panoramic view. Hiram Bingham stumbled across the remote Andean ruins
of Machu Picchu in 1911. While there is much speculation about this site, recent theories
suggest that Machu Picchu was a royal estate for the Inca ruler, Pachacuti. Perched above
the Urubamba River on a mountainous ridge that was flattened for construction, Machu
Picchu consists of a main plaza surrounded by densely-distributed buildings of varied
nature. At its highest point sits the Intihuatana, or "hitching post of the
sun," a boulder elegantly carved into a complex geometric shape. The nearby Torreon,
or observatory, was devoted to astronomy and has a window oriented toward sunrise on the
June solstice. |
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Sculpture
of Angkor - National Gallery of Art (link broken 08/31/2000)
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Cambodia's artistic legacy has been largely inaccessible to the West owing to decades
of political turbulence and isolation. This exhibition, made possible by recent peace
accords, brings together one hundred masterpieces from the world's two greatest
collections of Khmer sculpture: the National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, and the
Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, with a few additional loans from other
museums. It is the first exhibition in the United States to reveal the richness of
Cambodian sculpture during the great millennium of Khmer culture. This virtual tour
of the exhibition allows you to wander through the rooms of the exhibit by viewing a
series of panoramas. Within the panoramas, you may click on many pieces of the
artwork to open them in a different window to view them in more detail. |
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San Francisco Gallery
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The San Francisco Gallery aims to utilize the latest technologies to bring the works
of up-and-coming artists to the general public. It is their goal to empower emerging
artists by providing them with the opportunity to both feature their work, as well as
reveal their talent. By facilitating the exposure of developing artists, it is their wish
for the San Francisco Gallery to be a tool and a community resource for art and
entertainment. Within this site, you can open a series of panoramas which have artists'
works displayed within them. In many cases, you can click on the images to get a
more detailed view of the artwork. |
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Cross Currents - De Young Museum (link broken 08/31/2000)
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The galleries in this exhibition are comprised of photographic panoramas,
navigated by clicking and dragging. They contain movies that will pop up when clicked.
These movies can then be clicked and dragged for three-dimensional art in order to rotate
them. The Art of the Americas exhibition series reexamines the central role that
objects and museums have played in recording and shaping changing perceptions of American
identities. The goal of the exhibitions is the development of an innovative and flexible
museum model that emphasizes the interconnections between cultures and enhances
cross-cultural understanding. Cultural Crosscurrents, the first of these exhibitions,
suggests that cultures are more complex than the defining and confining labels applied to
them usually allow. |
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Crown Point Press - National Gallery of Art
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Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press has been jointly organized by the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, which houses the primary Crown Point Press archive of
publications from 1962 to the present, and the National Gallery of Art. This virtual tour
of the exhibition allows you to wander through the rooms of the exhibit by viewing a
series of panoramas. Within the panoramas, you may click on many pieces of the
artwork to open them in a different window to view them in more detail. |
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Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego
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Explore the museum and exhibits by walking around these VR photospheres.
Photographed in October 1997, the tour is provided in different versions to allow you to
best match the VR technology to the kind of computer and browser you use. |
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Brett
Whiteley Gallery, Australia
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Seven (7) Virtual Reality scenes are provided in differing formats, to
allow you to best match the VR playback technology to the kind of WWW browser you have.
The images & sounds were recorded on 22 September 1997 at the Brett Whiteley Studio, 2
Raper Street Surrey Hills, Sydney Australia. |
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Australian National Maritime Museum
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There are five scenes for you to explore, with or without sound. They are
provided in three different formats so you can match the display technology to the kind of
hardware and software you have. |
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Powerhouse
Museum
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The Powerhouse Museum is the largest museum in Australia and one of the
most diverse museums in the world. The Powerhouse has brilliant exhibitions covering
science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian social history. There is also
a constantly changing program of temporary exhibitions and events. At the site, you
can view some of their permanent and temporary exhibits as panoramas taken inside the
museum. Don't miss the panorama of the Hall of Transportation where you can look
straight up in the panorama to see a plane suspended above you. |
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