Can you imagine being able to explore the British Museum from your home, with just one click? Well, it will soon be possible thanks to the innovative blockchain metaverse platform The Sandbox, which has announced a partnership with the prestigious British Museum to recreate it in the virtual world.
The Sandbox, the Ethereum-based metaverse where users can create, own, and monetize their own virtual worlds through NFTs, has partnered with the British Museum, one of the world’s leading cultural institutions, to create a unique, immersive experience that will allow people to interact with the museum’s historic collections in a way never seen before.
The British Museum was founded in 1753 in London as the first national museum open to the public and, today, It has more than 8 million objects that recount the history and culture of humanity, from its beginnings to the present.
The British Museum comes to the Metaverse
On its blog, The Sandbox announced that its recent partnership with the British Museum will allow it to offer new immersive experiences that will showcase the entire history contained within the museum, so that users can explore the world's heritage in an interactive and fun way from anywhere.
Through this partnership, The Sandbox will recreate some of the British Museum's most iconic and representative collections, spanning from art masterpieces to science, culture and nature.
Sebastien Borget, COO and co-founder of The Sandbox, manifested The new relationship with the British Museum represents a unique opportunity to bring the museum's collections closer and share them with a wider audience. He said that the different communities and users of the metaverse will be able to learn more about world history and culture from the comfort of their homes.
“We are very excited to collaborate with the British Museum to share their incredible collections with new audiences in the metaverse”, Borget stressed.
The NFT platform LaCollection, certified by several of the world's leading museums, including The British Museum, is also part of the recent partnership between The Sandbox and the British Museum. LaCollection will accompany the institution in its first foray into the Web3 world to recreate its masterpieces as non-fungible tokens.
The legacy of humanity in the blockchain
The British Museum is not the only cultural institution venturing into the world of Web3. Also, the Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, in Paris (France); the Kharkiv Art Museum, in Ukraine; the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, in Belgium and the Museum of Fine Arts of Gran Canaria, in Las Palmas (Spain), have seen in the blockchain a unique opportunity to offer their collections to a wider audience and to preserve part of humanity's cultural heritage.
Even the Vatican City, the Holy See of Catholic culture, has entered the world of blockchain-based digital collectibles to democratize art and allow people everywhere to access its artistic, cultural and educational heritage.
Last year, the Vatican partnered with the Sensorium platform and the Humanity 2.0 Foundation to create a public NFT gallery, where it will display the great artistic and academic works it holds.
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