Selected work

Smithsonian Institution · Museum virtual tour platform

National Museum of Natural History

A long-running virtual museum platform that brings natural history galleries, exhibitions, and learning resources to remote visitors.

Virtual tour interface for the Smithsonian Deep Time exhibition with maps, scene thumbnails, and interpretive media
Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production

The experience

The Natural History work established many of the patterns that now define Loren’s practice: immersive capture, meaningful wayfinding, content-rich hotspots, and interfaces designed to teach rather than merely display.

01 / Challenge

Make the physical place make sense online.

Support a huge and evolving museum while making individual galleries understandable to visitors who may never have seen the building.

02 / Response

Design the visit, not just the interface.

Combine panoramic exploration with maps, exhibit categories, searchable interpretation, video, imagery, and direct navigation to the museum’s most important stories.

03 / Result

Give every visitor a way into the story.

A durable digital extension of the museum that supports discovery before a visit, learning from afar, and continued exploration afterward.

What I did

  • Virtual museum strategy
  • 360° production
  • Information architecture
  • Interactive learning

Experience features

  • Multi-floor museum navigation
  • Gallery and exhibition indexes
  • Rich interpretive media
  • Desktop and mobile experiences

Next project

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force