360° Video Shows You How The Met Preserves the World's Largest Costume Collection

The Costume Institute Conservation Laboratory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the department in charge or preserving the world's largest costume collection. In this immersive 360° video from the museum, see inside the Costume Institute Conservation Laboratory from all angles.

Explore The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Conservation Laboratory, where objects in the collection and exhibition loans are expertly conserved. In this virtual reality video, The Met’s conservators and a curator offer you close look at five pieces, including two Iris van Herpen dresses, and tell you about their innovative conservation treatments.

If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

via The Met

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