Cleveland Museum of Art’s big Krishna exhibit uses technology, great storytelling, to reveal history of a prized sculpture

via Cleveland.com, 21 November 2021: Using digital technologies to enhance the visitor experience.

Art museums are understandably fixated on the idea that there’s nothing like seeing authentic works of art in real time and space, rather than glowing images on a screen.

But the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has a global reputation for digital innovation, is taking its deepest dive yet into educational uses of technology in a new show that unfurls the fascinating story behind one of the most prized items in its collection: a rare, 7th-century Cambodian statue of Krishna.

“Revealing Krishna,’’ which opened a week ago, mixes real works of art with video projections, motion-activated displays, and holographic simulations. The goal is to narrate the discovery of the head and torso portion of the Krishna in southern Cambodia in the early 20th century, and multiple attempts to reattach it to fragments of arms, legs, and feet later unearthed at the same site.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art’s big Krishna exhibit uses technology, great storytelling, to reveal history of a prized sculpture – cleveland.com