The Sandbox and British Museum bring art and history into the metaverse

The Sandbox metaverse improvement level announced connected July 27 that it volition beryllium partnering with the British Museum to bring it into the metaverse. 

The blog revealed that the concern aims to make caller “immersive experiences” for users to observe satellite history. A scope of integer collectibles volition beryllium generated that bespeak assorted collections wrong the museum.

— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) July 27, 2023

Sebastien Borget, the main operating serviceman and co-founder of the Sandbox called it an accidental to stock the museum’s collections with caller audiences.

“This is simply a large accidental for The Sandbox players, careless of wherever they are, to larn astir and bask the astonishing collections of quality history, art, and civilization successful the British Museum.”

The collaboration besides includes a Web3 level called laCollection, the museum’s licensing partner, that has besides worked with starring depository institutions astir the satellite to bring creation into the integer space. 

While this infinitesimal whitethorn beryllium a the archetypal foray into the Web3 abstraction for the British Museum, this is not the archetypal clip a large depository has recovered its mode into the metaverse. 

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This past outpouring the Centre Pompidou - 1 of the apical museums successful France for modern creation and location of the archetypal postulation of modern creation successful Europe- opened a caller exhibition successful the increasing intersection of creation and blockchain. 

The depository introduced pieces from immoderate of the world’s astir coveted nonfungible token (NFTs) collections including CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs, arsenic portion of a imperishable exhibition.

Prior to that, 1 of Ukraine’s oldest creation museums, the Kharkiv Art Museum, launched an NFT collection arsenic a fundraiser to support its cognition and sphere its taste heritage.

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium was Europe’s first depository to tokenize a classical creation masterpiece valued astatine millions of euros.

On the different broadside of things, past twelvemonth the metaverse level Decentraland held metaverse creation week which included assorted interactive exhibitions of integer art. This included an immersive acquisition surrounding the beingness and works of renowned creator Frida Khalo with never-before-seen digitalized art.

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