Category: Members’ news

Charp have just released a new collection monitoring device, designed for wide connectivity and easy remote management. Charp supports cultural organisations, collections teams and touring teams in the management of collection care and travelling.

Giants of the Ice Age by Dino Don is currently open at Heureka in Vantaa, Finland. It presents seventeen life-sized, animated and scientifically accurate robots of giant mammals in their environments.

Leonardo vs Michelangelo by Layers of Reality is open at IDEAL Digital Arts Centre in Barcelona, Spain. Transporting visitors to 1503 Florence, when the Renaissance geniuses were commissioned to paint murals in the Hall of the Five Hundred, the exhibition presents 8 thematic rooms with large-scale 360º projections, interactive elements, VR and metaverse environments, for an immersive experience at the heart of the famous challenge.

BigPicture: Natural World Photography just opened at Discovery Place Science Museum in Charlotte, NC, USA. The exhibition, developed by the California Academy of Sciences, presents 38 winning submissions of the annual photography competition that capture incredible moments in nature and underscore the importance of conservation. Toured by the American Museum of Natural History.

Last days to visit Knights, by Contemporanea Progetti, at Point à Callière in Montreal, Canada. The exhibition presents over 100 pieces of European arms and armor from the Medieval and Renaissance ages to the 1800s, including full suits of armor, mounted equestrian figures, swords and other weaponry. Exploring themes of courtly pursuits, military status, love and war, jousts and tournaments, it uncovers the historical context of the pieces’ use and craftsmanship.

Spain Beyond the Myths, by c2c Exhibitions, is now open at the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki. The exhibition reveals the power of Spanish art around 1900, moving past Grand Tour stereotypes, and shows how Sorolla, Fortuny, Zuloaga, Casas, Rusiñol, and Nonell reshaped myths into a modern language that anticipated the avant-garde and attracted the world’s leading collectors.

The exhibition Animalis Machina by Franck Dion just closed at the Festival of Animation Berlin in Germany. Wandering through a contemporary ecological fable, visitors are immersed into video mapping, sound effects, music and animated bas-reliefs. As they dive into a humorous, poetic and dystopian ‘factory-world’, they are invited to reflect on their consumer habits and relationship to the living world.

The Notre Dame de Paris Augmented Reality Experience by Histovery has welcomed over 1 million visitors across 19 cities worldwide, including London, Beijing and New York. The exhibition offers an interactive and immersive journey through time, with 3D reconstructions of historical scenes and a privileged look at the ongoing restoration works of the cathedral. Experienced with the Histopad in hand, it is now available in new lightweight kits, in two formats.

The exhibition About Love by Universcience is now open at Universeum Bremen in Bremen, Germany. By presenting scientific and artistic works, it questions the mysterious feeling of love and its origins. Although there is no comprehensive scientific theory on love, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the emotion through seven lenses: What is love?; Attachment; Online Loves; The Body; Others; Proofs of love; and Sexuality.

Da Vinci’s First Flight by Artisans of Florence is now open at the San Diego Air and Space Museum, in San Diego (CA), United-States. With over 30 exhibits, including large-scale flying machines, hands-on experiments, mechanisms and machines created by Leonardo throughout his life, this exhibition showcases how da Vinci’s genius heralded the future of aviation.