Virtual Gallerie

Clients

Virtual Gallerie (VG) clients include museums, galleries, universities, and other cultural institutions. Below are several examples of the different types of institutions that we work with and a description of each organization’s application for VG’s technology. Following that is a complete list of our clients.

A Variety of Clients

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

LACMA is the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago with over 100,000 works of art in their collection and five buildings of exhibition space. VG has been working with LACMA for over four years and has built them an interior 3D model of each building for the purposes of exhibition planning, online virtual tours, and other museum applications. LACMA continues to use VG Curator to design, build, and plan their permanent and temporary art exhibitions; and they launched an interactive multimedia 3D virtual tour online in the fall of 2008.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Crystal Bridges is a future museum currently under construction in Bentonville, Arkansas, and scheduled to open in 2009. The museum was founded by Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, and will include 50,000 feet of gallery space, a library, a 250-seat auditorium, as well as offices, the whole surrounded by gardens and walking trails. VG has built 3D models of all of Crystal Bridges galleries for the purpose of planning the museum’s exhibitions prior to its opening.

University of Washington (UW)

The University of Washington was founded in 1861 and is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. UW is the largest university in the northwestern U.S. and the oldest public university on the west coast. VG was hired by the university to build a 3D model of some of the galleries in the Burke Museum, the campus art museum. UW utilizes VG Curator to teach students the art of curation and design for the university’s museum studies course.

University of Oklahoma (OU)

The University of Oklahoma was founded in 1890 and is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma. OU has a world class museum on campus called the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art which has an 8,000-object permanent collection and recently expanded by 34,000 square feet of additional gallery space. VG provided OU with its 3D software for the museum to build its own 3D model of the new gallery spaces for exhibit planning and remote online access to their collection and art exhibitions.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (NBHOF)

NBHOF is located in Cooperstown, New York, and it is one of the country's most popular destinations. The Museum is a three-story red brick building; and it serves as a repository for baseball’s treasures, as well as the historic Hall of Fame Gallery, where the plaques of all 256 Hall of Fame members line the oak walls. VG has worked with NBHOF since 2004 in recreating 3D models of old classic baseball stadiums that were torn down in the last 100 years. The museum’s newest exhibit, Sacred Ground, features virtual tours of these stadiums where visitors can “walk-through” them, view multimedia content, and experience interactive 3D on a large 15’ x 10’ curved screen.