3D Tools
These tools offer user interfaces for working with 3D resources in various ways–such as deep visual exploration, viewing 3D galleries, learning, and more.
Wolfsonian Digital Labs
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.
Digibooks
A proof of concept digital flipbook experience.
Creator: Facundo Trivino Guevara + Mark Osterman
IIIF Tools
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.
Digital Exhibition Viewer
A browser-based digital exhibition platform that presents collection objects through interactive, zoomable IIIF viewers.
Creator: Mark Osterman
AI Art Chatbot
Experimental chatbot to explore select artwork and ask questions about individual pieces.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
Arts of Persuasion
Explore the persuasion techniques used in World War II propaganda.
Creator: Mark Osterman
Posters
An experimental gallery and lightbox viewer for a collection of posters at the Wolfsonian.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
Medals
An experimental gallery and lightbox viewer for a collection of medals at the Wolfsonian.
Creator: Sul Paperwalla
Image Search by Accession and Gallery Maker
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
Virtual Tours
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
Crowd Sourcing
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
Story Maps
Interactive exploration of images in the gallery using a tablet-based image zooming and annotation software.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
Animation
From serious to seriously silly, assorted animations rendered of mechanical postcards and books.
Original Creator: Derek Merleaux
Stickers
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
Digital Collection API
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