What if you could roam the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, learn about the artwork, and even play some trivia games, all from the comfort of your phone screen? That day has ...

Instagram is making its augmented reality effects a little more educational. The app is partnering with three museums in the United States and France to bring AR versions of their exhibits into its ...

On Main Library’s fifth floor, visitors can grab a virtual reality headset and be virtually immersed in material culture from an African collection. The exhibition, called “Augmented Curiosities: ...

(TNS) — It's not unusual to find visitors waiting for the doors to be unlocked when the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum opens in the morning. But Executive Director Kari Watkins was unusually ...

Monument Lab has created a new augmented reality app that allows user to tour portions of Philadelphia using their phones. The free app, called OverTime, uses a format similar to the popular Pokemon ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum today launched a new augmented-reality experience that brings to life “Owney the Dog,” mascot of the Railway Mail Service. The experience, offered via iPhone ...

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Those who have always wanted to be part of a famous work of art, soon may have their wishes fulfilled. The Norton Museum of Art is set to launch an augmented reality app Jan. 2 that it says will make ...

For millions of children, being dragged to a museum is a singularly painful experience, marked by time standing still rather than history coming to life – as it does in the film “Night at the Museum,” ...