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Ride a Flying Fish is a VR experience that explores a 500 year old painting by Hieronymus Bosch A Garden of Earthly Delights. Ride a Flying Fish is a VR experience that explores a 500 year old painting by Hieronymus Bosch A Garden of Earthly Delights.

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Ride A Flying Fish – Hunt Museum Brings 500 Year Old Painting to Life through VR

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Ride a Flying Fish is a VR experience that explores a 500 year old painting by Hieronymus Bosch A Garden of Earthly Delights.

Ride A Flying Fish – Hunt Museum Brings 500 Year Old Painting to Life through VR

The Hunt Museum will host “Ride a Flying Fish”, a VR experience that explores a 500 year old painting by Hieronymus Bosch A Garden of Earthly Delights, from Thursday  October 21 – just in time for mid-term break.

Not only does the VR exhibition give visitors access to a renowned painting that resides in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, the experience allows people to feel as if they are stepping inside the painting – a complex triptych oil painting on oak panel. Through the VR headset technology, visitors will Ride a Flying Fish through each panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights where they can focus on every little detail and analyse the dense painting through a different perspective. 


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The exhibition goes beyond VR to provide a completely immersive experience. A large scale printed version of The Garden of Earthly Delights will be available to view and the story of the painting and aspects of its symbolism explained.

The Hunt Museum owns a triptych from a century later, A Painted Epitaph dating circa 1611. A very high quality digital version of this triptych will also be on display. The digitisation reveals much that is difficult to see with the naked eye.

An experience not to be missed, this will be of particular interest to art lovers, historians, tourists, students as well as gamers and tech enthusiasts.

Ride a Flying Fish Exhibition runs from October 21 to December 24 2021.

Tickets are €10 or just €12.50 to see the exhibition and entire Hunt Museum collection. Children go free. 

To book, visit HERE 

For more stories on Hunt Museum, see HERE

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