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

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

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?

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

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 its five front teeth?

Play with a pangolin

Meet the other mammal that rolls up into a ball

The Cute Scaly Anteater

Take a look at the 40cm long tongue it uses to grab insects

Go back to the very beginning

Travel through time with augmented reality

The Story of Our Universe as Told by Tilda Swinton

Experience the Big Bang in augmented reality

Download the Big Bang AR app from the Google Play Store

Download the Big Bang AR app from the iOS app store

Get lost in space

From infinity and beyond to your living room

The Command Module From Apollo 11

Where the three-person crew lived during the first manned lunar landing

Neil Armstrong’s A-7L Lunar Spacesuit

A closer look at what was worn by the first man on the moon

Explore ancient artifacts

You don't have to visit a museum to see history up close

The Berlin Gold Hat

Does the pattern on this Late Bronze age artifact act as a calendar?

The Chacmool of Tenochtitlan

A reclining figure unearthed from the ruins the former capital of the Aztec empire

The Lanzón Stella

A 15-foot cult object from Chavín that experts think represented the harvest

Heritage in your home

Step inside at-risk buildings in AR and witness the effects of climate change

Hold the Chauvet Cave in Your Hand

Prehistoric France comes to you in this Pocket Gallery

Explore Bagerhat's Nine-Dome Mosque in Augmented Reality

Keep a look out for the dark marks on the columns which show the deterioration

Explore Kilwa Kisiwani's Gereza Fort in Augmented Reality