Online webinar
XR ERA Meetup: 'Museums in the Metaverse: XR Experiences for Cultural Heritage'
- Date
- Tuesday 9 December 2025
- Time
- Address
- MS Teams (Online)
XR ERA is an online, international community dedicated to knowledge sharing within the field of Extended Reality (XR) technologies in education. Founded in 2020, it is wholly run by the Leiden Learning & Innovation Centre (LLInC) and organises monthly community Meetups, at which specially-invited speakers present their recent projects and research, followed by a Q&A.
For our December Meetup, we’re delighted to welcome Professor Neil McDonnell from the University of Glasgow to delve into Museums in the Metaverse – “a ground-breaking two-sided Extended Reality (XR) Cultural Heritage platform that aims to empower diverse visitors to explore cultural assets in new and engaging ways; enable cultural heritage professionals and non-specialist users to create new content; and explore models of use to support sustainable economic and cultural growth”.
As Neil goes on to explain:
“Museum audiences want virtual experiences and are willing to pay for them. Meeting that need, and that new route to revenue, faces multiple barriers familiar to those in the XR space: money, technology, IP, and skills. Our MiM (Museums in the Metaverse) platform tackles these head on. We have developed a no-code, DIY, platform for the museums sector which avoids gnarly IP issues, and gets revenue back to those who need it in order to grow their digital collections: the museums themselves”.
If you’re curious to dive further into this project before the day itself, take a look at the project's website as well as this introductory video.
For any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with Pippa Brownlie (xrcommunity@llinc.leidenuniv.nl).
How to sign up?
Access to all Meetups is exclusive to XR ERA community members but, should you wish to attend, it's not too late to register here for our free membership and access! The MS Teams invite will be sent by email.
