Virtual MoMA

An unofficial walk-through of the Museum of Modern Art, free, in your browser.

You walk it. There is no slideshow and no video: you are in the rooms, at human height, and the works are the size they really are. It is built from the collection data MoMA publishes openly, and there is a voice that will tell you about what you stop in front of.

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Is this the Museum of Modern Art?

No. This is an unofficial project, built by one person, and has no affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art. It is made from the data MoMA publishes openly about its own collection. If you want the real museum, it is at moma.org, and it is worth the trip.

What am I actually walking through?

Six floors, 64 rooms and 1,031 works, laid out from MoMA's own floor plans and hung at the size the catalogue says each work really is. A painting two metres across is two metres across here. What is on the walls is what was on view when the collection data was last read.

Where do the pictures and the facts come from?

From MoMA's open collection dataset, which the museum publishes under CC0 — titles, artists, dates, mediums, dimensions and credit lines. The images belong to the artists and are shown here only to stand in for the works on the walls. The spoken notes were written for this site and are not MoMA curatorial text.

Is it free? Do I need to install anything?

It is free and there is nothing to install. It runs in a browser, on a laptop or a phone. There is no account and no paywall.

Can I go round it with someone else?

Yes. Open the invite and send the link: whoever opens it walks the same rooms at the same time, and you can see each other and talk. Nothing about a party is kept once everyone leaves.

Who made it?

Nancy Wang. There is a feedback form inside the museum, and more at nancy-wang.com.

The six floors