VR museums

A VR (virtual reality) museum is a digital representation of a physical museum that allows visitors to explore exhibits, collections, and galleries in a virtual environment using VR technology. In a VR museum, visitors can interact with exhibits in a way that is not possible in a physical museum, such as zooming in on artifacts or examining them from different angles.

VR museums can be used to support the preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

• IVR museums can help to reach a wider audience, including those who may not be able to physically visit a museum. This can help to raise awareness about both tangible and intangible cultural heritage and the importance of their preservation.
• VR museums can be used to create digital archives of cultural heritage, which can be used for research, education, and future preservation efforts. These archives can include both tangible and intangible heritage elements and can be shared with museums and cultural institutions around the world, promoting collaboration and the sharing of knowledge and resources.

The VR museum of hungry ghost festival

This is the first virtual intangible cultural heritage museum in Hong Kong. Its aim is to promote public education, and enhance people's understanding and sense of identity with Chinese culture and the Hong Kong community.

• In addition to historical pictures, newspaper reports, and comics belonging to intangible cultural heritage, the museum showcases 3D models of the Yue Lan Festival created by the Professor Selina CHAN’s research team and the Teaching and Learning Development Office using photogrammetry, as well as a high-resolution 8K 360-degree panoramic view of the Yue Lan Festival space (VR 360).
• Audiences from anywhere in the world can enter the museum using VR headsets or Oculus, or they can download a free software to enter the museum using their home computer. At any given time, the number of visitors in the museum is limited to 30 people. The public can browse the exhibition boards in the museum, travel through time and space to experience the sounds, colours, arts, and people of the actual community during the Yue Lan Festival in 2021. They can even interact and discuss with other museum visitors, deepen their understanding of local culture, and learn about the inheritance and innovation of intangible cultural heritage, which helps to promote and conserve national intangible cultural heritage.

The VR museum of Ving Tsing

The Teaching and Learning Development Office has collaborated with the Department of Journalism and Communication and the Ving Tsun Athletic Association to design the first virtual reality Ving Tsun Museum. The museum showcases precious documents related to the development of Ving Tsun in Hong Kong. Visitors only need to wear equipment to "travel through time and space" to the address of the Ving Tsun Athletic Association in Mong Kok, and practice martial arts in the metaverse. Visitors can also design their own virtual avatars and interact with other attendees.