How is the Art Museum which has no walls or fixed locations and exhibits works by the most important artists

The coronavirus pandemic has forced museums and galleries to rethink how they showcase artwork and artists online to a wider audience.

The Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) is the world’s first fully interactive virtual museum. Curated by museum director Lee Cavaliere and built from the ground up by artist Stuart Semple, VOMA features works from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including the Musée d’Orsay, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.

And most importantly, anyone in the world can enter the exhibits for free.

VOMA: the virtual museum in high resolution​

Each high-resolution artwork is presented with a range of related media and references – rather than a standard fact sheet – to truly enrich the visitor’s understanding of the particular artwork and its history.

Anyone who enters VOMA can go wherever they want, even leaving the building and wandering around the museum park.

To highlight VOMA technologies, the hybrid digital world changes depending on the time of day or the season of the yearreflecting the environmental impact of light, wind and rain.

VOMA does not only address issues related to assisting museums with social distancing measuresl, but also more complex questions about who has access to large cultural institutions in the first place.

“A virtual observation room can feel like a lonely place: silent, empty, sometimes a little uncomfortable,” says Stuart Semple.

“When building VOMA, we wanted to get away from that feeling, which is not unlike walking into a smug, quiet gallery and feeling a little self-conscious.. We wanted to integrate the sense of community and buzz of going to a museum, where there are often many different exhibits, and immersive or interactive experiences.”

VOMA has opened its doors to the public with an exhibition featuring works by olympia by Édouard Manet, the garden of delights by Hieronymus Bosch e The incredulity of St. Thomas by Caravaggio.

The virtual museum opened to the public on the VOMA website on August 14, 2020. Here are some works from its halls.

“The Executions of May 3”, by Goya

This painting represents the struggle of the Spanish people against the French at the beginning of the Spanish Revolution, which took place in 1808. The original painting is located in the Prado Museum in the city of Madrid.

“Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix

The original painting of this painting is in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The work is inspired by the revolt of the Parisian people against King Charles X during the Revolution of 1830.

“The Man Who Controls the Universe” by Diego Rivera

This work titled “Man, Controller of the Universe” by Diego Rivera was made in 1934, Palacio de Bellas Artes, INBA, Mexico City, originally painted for Rockefeller Center, but currently housed in Rivera’s native country.