How to Create a Virtual Gallery

1. Create a space

Go to Galleries, sign in, and press Create. Give the space a name and pick a starting point:

• Empty Space — a blank room you build up yourself.
• Vatican Hall — a pre-built museum hall modeled on the Braccio Nuovo, with columns, coffered ceilings and mosaic floors, ready for artworks.

New spaces start private — only you can enter until you make them public.

2. Hang artworks

Inside the editor, search the collection — 790,000+ open-access works from the Met, Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Art and more — and place any of them in your space. Every placed object can be moved, rotated and scaled with the on-screen gizmo, and Ctrl+D duplicates the selected object. The Scene Outliner lists everything you have placed, so nothing gets lost behind a wall.

You can also start from the artwork itself: every artwork page has an Add to Gallery button that hangs that work in one of your galleries and drops you into the editor to position it. 3D scans go further — Add to Gallery places the scan as an object, and Make a Gallery builds a whole walkable space around a scanned room in one click.

Beyond artworks, the editor places 3D text, videos (including YouTube), portals that teleport visitors between spaces, info points, chairs, and background music from the curated library or your own URL.

3. Light and atmosphere

Open Global Controls to shape how the space feels:

• Environment — pick from 39 HDR environments (studios, cathedrals, courtyards, night skies…) in a visual picker with thumbnails, or upload your own.hdr file. The environment drives both the backdrop and how light falls on every surface.
• Lighting — sun direction, intensity, color, shadows, and ambient level.
• Effects — exposure, bloom, vignette, ambient occlusion, and floating dust for that museum-in-the-afternoon feel.

Press Save — visitors see exactly what you saved.

4. Make it public and share

Flip the space to public and it appears in the Galleries listing; the Share button inside the space copies a direct link. Send it to anyone — no account is needed to visit, walk around, or chat.

5. Visiting together

Spaces are multiplayer by default: everyone with the link shares the same room, sees each other's avatars, and can talk. Controls inside a space:

• WASD — move · Shift — run · Space — jump
• V — switch camera · H — head tracking on/off
• 1–5 — emotes (including dances)
• Enter — chat · Esc — menu
• The microphone button enables voice chat with everyone in the space.

Want to look like yourself (or anyone else)? Upload a custom VRM avatar in your profile — VRM is the open format used by free creators like VRoid Studio and VIVERSE Avatar Maker, and every Artheon animation works on it automatically.

Tips from spaces that work well

• Fewer, larger works beat many small ones. Ten well-spaced paintings read as a gallery; fifty crammed ones read as a storage room.
• Set the environment first — it changes how every artwork looks, so choose it before fine-tuning placement.
• Walk your own space before sharing. Sight lines from the spawn point are what visitors see first.
• For classrooms: share the link at the start of class — students join in one click without accounts, and you can talk to the whole group over voice chat.

Questions or something not working? Tell us — gallery creators get fast answers.