The Secret Gallery

The Secret Gallery brings twenty-five real museum sculptures into the room with you. Step closer. Walk around them. Look at the back — the part no catalogue photograph has ever shown you. FOUR GALLERIES Auguste Rodin — The Thinker, ... Classical Antiquity — the Venus de Milo,.. Buddhist and Hindu Asia — a dancing Shiva Nataraja, ... Ancient Egypt and the Near East — the head of Amenhotep III in the blue crown,... Open a door and you are inside. A library of works runs along one wall: touch any of them and it takes its place on the plinth in front of you. EVERY SCULPTURE KEEPS A SECRET Touch a piece and it tells you the one thing you would never have guessed by looking at it. Why a figure has no arms. What the sculptor was doing with his own hand. Which detail everyone walks straight past. REAL WORKS, REAL SCANS Nothing here is an artist's impression. Every piece is a scan of an actual object in an actual museum — the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Musee Rodin, the Vatican Museums, the Louvre and others — and each one carries a label with its title and the museum where the original lives. Where a work's origin isuncertain, the label says nothing rather than inventing it. BUILT FOR YOUR HANDS No controllers. You open doors, choose works and touch sculptures with your hands. The gallery sits in your own room, and you move through it by walking.

The Secret Gallery is here, and the app is now open to everyone. Twenty-five real museum sculptures, standing in your own room. Step closer, walk around them, look at the back. Touch any one of them and it tells you its secret. Ask the guide anything about the piece in front of you and it answers out loud, in your language. New in this version: Japanese. The app now runs in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Korean and Japanese.