The world’s great paintings, in a hall of your own.
A hundred and ten of the most loved paintings in the world, each hung at its true size, in a museum that never closes.
True to size
Every painting, exactly as large as it is.
Vermeer’s girl with the pearl is 44.5 centimetres tall. The Night Watch is 4.37 metres across. Here each hangs at its real size, under a ceiling high enough for both.
Come closer
Close enough to count the brushstrokes.
Pinch, and the view comes in until each pixel of the photograph meets a pixel of your screen: the ridges of paint round a star, the cracks in an old varnish, the signature in the corner.
Light, traced live
Lit the way a gallery is lit.
On a Mac with M3 or later, the gallery’s light is ray traced as you walk: soft pools from the track lights, real shadows beneath every frame, and each painting’s colour glowing faintly on the wall beside it.
Behind the scenes
Tap a painting. Hear how it was made.
A narrator tells the story behind each work, every fact resting on two sources, and the view glides in to each detail as it’s spoken of.
Carved and gilded
Framed as the great museums frame them.
Carved gilt after the Mauritshuis frame round this very painting, a Louis XIV after Berain, Dutch ebony after the frame on Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait at 63. Every one is modelled, carved and lit, never painted on.
Music for the walk
Satie, Bach and Chopin, quietly.
Piano and strings to wander by, every recording free to share, softening whenever the narrator speaks.
Your way through
By artist, by era, by movement. Or shuffled.
Rehang the whole hall in a moment. Ask for any work by name, and the hall runs you there, past every painting in between.
The museum is open.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store. Until then, the hall is open in your browser.
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Every painting here is in the public domain; the photographs are from Wikimedia Commons, the music from Musopen and Kimiko Ishizaka.