Culture · Augmented reality · 2024

Virtual Street Museum

A collaborative mobile augmented-reality experience that turns the streets of Athens into an open cultural museum.

Project overview

Virtual Street Museum invites visitors to discover historical locations while moving through present-day Athens. The mobile experience adds a digital layer to the streets, connecting cultural information with the places where the city’s stories unfolded.

Approach

As lead developer, Dimitris Tsoukalos translated a shared curatorial vision into an approachable mobile journey. The project brought together Unity development, spatial interaction and collaboration with the University of Patras, DIPYLON and COMMONSPACE.

Experience

The result combines academic knowledge, cultural research and augmented reality in a format visitors can carry with them, turning the city itself into the exhibition space.

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A closer look.

Official screenshots published on Google Play.

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The opening introduces a route shaped by each visitor’s interests and available time.
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Visitors can tune route duration, themes and whether already visited points should be excluded.
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A city map connects cultural stories with their physical locations across Athens.