Reality Check

From dinosaurs to the Mona Lisa, bring culture to you with Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality allows you to project 3D models into the real-world through your phone camera

What do you want to see?

Get the app

Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Meet an ancient animal

Watch some creepies crawling

Go bird watching

Oh deer!

See underwater without a snorkel

Feeling crabby?

Play with a pangolin

Go back to the very beginning

The Story of Our Universe as Told by Tilda Swinton

Get lost in space

Explore ancient artifacts

Heritage in your home

Symbols of survival

A whole new wall game

How to Hang a Masterpiece

Get creative

Pick a painting to hang

Or try a sculpture on your coffee table

An art exhibition, anywhere

What is Pocket Gallery?

Meet Vermeer

All of the artist’s paintings together for the first time in history

Step inside the history of color

Unfinished business

What do you want to see?

Animals

Meet some of the world's most unusual inhabitants

Space

Watch the Big Bang brought to life or examine souvenirs from space

History

Bring the past into your present

Art

Up your interior decor game with a priceless artwork

Architecture

Step inside the unfinished designs of the Bauhaus

Meet an ancient animal

Find out what they looked like when they roamed the earth... or take a closer look at their skeletons

Amurosaurus Riabinin

The duck-billed dinosaur that walked on its hind legs 72 million years ago

Great Auk

This giant bird that ‘flew’ underwater went extinct in the 19th century

Cambropachycope

A 1.5mm long fossil with the world's oldest preserved eye

Opabinia

A 500m-year-old creature with five eyes

Aegirocassis

A 480m-year-old marine animal

Hatcher the Triceratops

Did these fossilized bones meet their end in the teeth of a T-Rex?

Watch some creepies crawling

Invite an insect inside of your house

Common Tiger Butterfly

An armory of weapons to ward off predators

Korean Jewel Beetle

It’s often impossible to say what color this iridescent insect really is

White-tailed Skimmer

A 3cm-long-dragon

Longicorn Beetle

They can have antennae double the length of their body

Stag Beetle

A beetle with the antlers of a stag

Go bird watching

A bird in the home is worth two in the bush

Whooper Swan

Narcissus Flycatcher

Scops Owl

Steller's Sea-Eagle

White-Naped Crane

Labdrador Duck

Passenger Pigeon

Huia

Paradise Parrot

Carolina Parakeet

Health Hen

Oh deer!

Herd it here first...

Water Deer

Not all this mammal's toes touch the ground when it walks...

See underwater without a snorkel

Choose a deep sea dweller to come to life in front of you

Swim With Sharks...

Don't worry, silvertip sharks prefer to snack on bony fish, squid - and other sharks

...Or Invite The World's Largest Creature Into Your Home

The skeleton is from a whale that became stranded in 1891 in Wexford Harbour, Ireland

Crucian Carp

Their colors and shapes change according to their habitat

Blue Sea Star

The starfish that grows new arms

Sea Dragon

A drifting master of camouflage

Spot Fin Porcupinefish

Solitary, inflatable, deadly

The Horned Sea Star

An opportunistic carnivore

Spotted Trunkfish

A toxic reef-dweller

Kaluga

The largest freshwater fish in the world

Feeling crabby?

Put one of these cool crustaceans in your bathtub

Brown Box Crab

An armored rock mimic

Brown Crab

Can you spot it's five front teeth?