Museum Lab of Louvre-DNP

Louvre-DNP Museum Lab

Onishi Gallery is proud to present “Tech­nolo­gies from Museum Lab” exhi­bi­tion spon­sored by Dai Nip­pon Print­ing Co., Ltd. (DNP) and Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha Ltd. (KBK).

Born of the col­lab­o­ra­tion between DNP and the Musée du Lou­vre, the Louvre-DNP Museum Lab joint project seeks to explore new approaches to art­works, par­tic­u­larly through the use of mul­ti­me­dia tools, apply­ing cut­ting edge-technology to the (re)discovery of pres­ti­gious works in the Lou­vre col­lec­tion. This coop­er­a­tion began in Octo­ber 2006, and its first stage was com­pleted in the end of 2009. The sec­ond stage will begin in Octo­ber 2010.

The exhi­bi­tion at Onishi Gallery includes the tech­nolo­gies and meth­ods of medi­a­tion, bridg­ing the gap between the viewer and the art­works, accu­mu­lated from the Louvre-DNP Museum Lab. A cir­cuit with a wealth of mul­ti­me­dia medi­a­tion devices draws vis­i­tors into the his­tory and analy­sis of the works, let­ting them fol­low in the foot­steps of the artists in ques­tion and afford­ing an insight into the details con­cealed. This ground-breaking fea­ture allows vis­i­tors to dis­cover the hid­den face of some of the museum’s mas­ter­pieces. Vis­i­tors can enjoy expe­ri­enc­ing some of the highly inno­v­a­tive tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tions devel­oped by the Louvre-DNP Museum Lab at the show­ing.

Enhanc­ing the func­tions of con­ven­tional medi­a­tion tools through mul­ti­me­dia
Con­stantly seek­ing to make the medi­a­tion tools used in muse­ums even more intu­itive and user-friendly, Museum Lab has devel­oped a new device based on the prin­ci­ple of spec­i­men boxes. By push­ing a screen from front to back set on a spec­i­men box that recon­structs the mate­ri­als used to pro­duce the works, vis­i­tors launch an ani­ma­tion sequence that pro­vides a step-by-step break­down of the cre­ative process. Tak­ing its cue from tools already famil­iar to vis­i­tors, this easy-to-operate device is designed to make cura­to­r­ial expla­na­tions eas­ier to follow.

Using Aug­mented Real­ity (AR) tech­nol­ogy to tran­sit infor­ma­tion within a museum.
“Aug­mented Real­ity” is a tech­nol­ogy that makes it pos­si­ble to obtain far more infor­ma­tion about an object or a scene than can be obtained by sim­ply look­ing. Texts, images, or videos can be added to the real scene or tar­get object before the spectator’s eyes through super­im­po­si­tion, and by means of a screen. This
tech­nol­ogy is used for pro­vid­ing expla­na­tions about an exhibit at Museum Lab.

Manip­u­la­tion of the art­works in 3D

By “han­dling” 3D images of art­works on the touch screen mon­i­tor, vis­i­tors
turn the art­works in vir­tual space exactly as if they were hold­ing the fig­ures in their hands.

Also of Interest

• MR (Mixed Reality) Technology 
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