august, 2020

sat15aug11:00 am2:00 pmTake a tour of the Virtual Peale in Second Life!

Event Details

Hosted by The Peale Center

Virtual – Advance Registration

Take a tour of the Virtual Peale: Part of our Fonder’s Day Celebration!
August 15, 2020 | 11:00am-2:00pm (EDT) | FREE
RSVP to receive login instructions on the day of the event
Opened in downtown Baltimore on August 15, 1814, Rembrandt Peale’s Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts was the first purpose-built museum in the United States. Now you can visit this National Historic Landmark in the virtual world, Second Life, for tours, exhibitions, and events!
Join us in Second Life for a Virtual Open House on our 206th birthday, or watch via live stream. RSVP to get the link and more information on participating.
The museum was developed in partnership with Linden Lab, maker of Second Life, who developed extensive interior spaces for a 3D model of the Peale Museum building that was originally created by the Imaging Research Center at UMBC for its online map of Baltimore ca. 1815. Over time the interior of the virtual Peale Museum building will grow to include more galleries, both extant in the physical world and inspired by the Peale’s programming and partners, making the Peale in Second Life a creative hybrid of the “real” and the imaginary. The Internet’s largest virtual world has recently experienced a resurgence in popularity as more people seek out safe and fun social interactions online during the pandemic.
Current highlights of the virtual museum include the 3D interactive Peale Museum building and the virtual world exhibition, “Redefine/ABLE: Challenging Inaccessibility.” Exhibits and events will change regularly, and include playful and surprising elements inspired by the Peale’s and Baltimore’s history and stories – like a virtual mastodon, recalling the mastodons famously excavated in 1801 and exhibited by the Peale family in their museums in Philadelphia and Baltimore!

 

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Time

(Saturday) 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Organizer

The Peale Center

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