Ministry of Culture Supports Development of Immersive Content for Museums and Art Galleries

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the 5th that it will support the development of immersive content utilizing artifacts and artworks held by public museums and art galleries nationwide. The targets include twenty-two institutions such as Daejeon Museum of Art, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Byeokgolje Agricultural Culture Museum, Mungyeong Coal Museum, Sokcho City Museum, Yeongwol Cave Ecology Center, Park Soo-keun Art Museum, Gyeonggi Children's Museum, Jeongok Prehistoric Museum, Goyang Children's Museum, Hwang Sun-won Literature Village, Mokpo Modern History Museum, Mokpo Natural History Museum, Bangchon Artifact Exhibition Hall, Namdo Traditional Art Museum, and Jinju Bronze Age Culture Museum. This year, various immersive contents will be produced by integrating advanced technologies such as media facade (exterior wall video), projection mapping, interactive media, high-resolution video, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Six regional art galleries will create exterior wall videos themed on the art and life of Park Soo-keun and Lee Ungno, as well as content where augmented reality (AR) guides (docents) explain local cultural heritage. Hwang Sun-won Literature Village in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi Province, will set up an interactive "Sonagi" experience village where visitors become protagonists in the novel. Byeokgolje Agricultural Culture Museum will develop a program to view the vast Gimje Plain and Byeokgolje using immersive technology. Other museums will create content that allows exploration and experience of places difficult to visit or experience in reality, such as coal mines and the Maegwi Nongak troupe of Jangheung, through immersive technology. Gyeonggi Children's Museum will develop remote interactive experience content that responds only when interacting with visitors from other museums, and Jeongok Prehistoric Museum will develop content where Paleolithic people come to life to tell about and experience their era together.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will provide necessary consulting for each project and hold regular joint training sessions. An official stated, “We expect this to supplement the poor exhibition programs and content of museums and art galleries and provide various experiential services to visitors.”

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