Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production
The experience
Loren was commissioned to photograph The Met’s galleries after hours, when the museum was empty. The original virtual-tour concept proved too large to curate across a collection spanning 5,000 years, but more than 125 captured rooms now provide the foundation for a focused, independently developed audio demonstration.
01 / Challenge
Make the physical place make sense online.
Create an understandable digital route through an encyclopedic museum without asking a single interface—or a single curatorial effort—to explain everything at once.
02 / Response
Design the visit, not just the interface.
Break the museum into concise visual and audio modules: gallery-scale moments, short podcast-style interpretive tracks, thematic pathways, and optional deeper layers that let visitors choose how much context they want.
03 / Result
Give every visitor a way into the story.
A prototype for an audio-first virtual museum that respects the scale of the collection while making an extensive after-hours image archive useful again.
A closer view from the The Met experience
“A virtual tour should create the urge to explore one more room, open one more story, and look a little closer.”
