This site offers a glimpse into how we experiment with new digital ways of engaging our collections. Working alongside staff, FIU faculty, and students, we explore emerging platforms and tools to see what's possible. These projects are intentionally unfinished—prototypes and proofs of concept that reflect learning in progress. Join us as we share the questions, experiments, and discoveries that shape our digital work.
A digital collections tool supporting search, image retrieval, gallery curation, and PDF export for research.
UX + Partial Logic:
Mark Osterman
(Powered by original work and systems architecture by:
Sul Paperwalla).
These tools offer user interfaces for working with 3D resources in various ways–such as deep visual exploration, viewing 3D galleries, learning, and more.
A proof of concept digital flipbook experience.
Creator: Facundo Trivino Guevara + Mark Osterman
These tools offer user interfaces for working with IIIF resources in various ways–such as creating exhibitions, annotating images, and more–and often only require a link to one or more IIIF Manifests to use.
A browser-based digital exhibition platform that presents collection objects through interactive, zoomable IIIF viewers.
Creator: Mark Osterman
Experimental chatbot to explore select artwork and ask questions about individual pieces.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
Explore the persuasion techniques used in World War II propaganda.
Creator: Mark Osterman
An experimental gallery and lightbox viewer for a collection of posters at the Wolfsonian.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
An experimental gallery and lightbox viewer for a collection of medals at the Wolfsonian.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
This is an experimental image search, lightbox viewer, and gallery maker. The interface allows users to look up images by entering an exact or partial accession number, which is assigned to every museum object.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
Explore virtual tours of our most popular exhibitions — from Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction to the acclaimed Myth and Machine. Though the exhibitions have closed, you can still wander the galleries online or on your tablet, zoom in for details, and view high-resolution images with captions.
Creator: Derek Merleaux
Harald Rudyard Engman’s 1941 painting Menneske Pyramide (Human Pyramid) layers figures from ancient times to the present in a human tower rich with political and social symbolism drawn from Danish myth and history. Explore its details and add annotations to uncover its complex meanings.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
Interactive exploration of images in the gallery using a tablet-based image zooming and annotation software.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
From serious to seriously silly, assorted animations rendered of mechanical postcards and books.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
Drag and drop images selected from our collection to make a scene. Backdrops and more selections of stickers are coming soon!
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
Fresh Data for your ideas factory! Give your web site or app the power of The Wolfsonian with access to the open Application Programming Interface (API) for our digital collection.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux