Create, Narrate, and Share Exhibits
Promote engagement and learning with your online digital collections.
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It's easy to get started using Exhibit's hosted and self-hosted options
- Hosted
- Start creating straight away on exhibit.so. It’s free, with nothing to set up and no sign-in needed.
- Self-hosted
- Run your own Exhibit in your Google Cloud account, on your own domain. Self-hosting adds team accounts with shared editing, file uploads with IIIF manifests created for you, printable gallery wall cards, visitor analytics, custom branding and data export.
Read more about self-hosting, or get in touch to talk it through.
Showcase
This exhibit traces how chiaroscuro changed in European art, from a Renaissance technique for modelling soft flesh to a way of creating psychological tension. Drawing on major works from London, Paris and Amsterdam, it lets you zoom in on translucent fingers and candle flames to see how painters made light and dark do so much work.
How did painters make a flat surface look lit by candlelight? Zoom in on six paintings, including works by Leonardo, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, and pick the technique behind each detail. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
Explore the mythology of Dionysus (Bacchus), the ancient Greek god of wine, ritual madness, and theatre. This showcase exhibit brings together all 4 media types supported by Exhibit: 2D high-resolution imagery, interactive 3D models with camera orbits, high-definition video, and synchronized time-based audio.
Features
- Flexible
- Build exhibits in your browser with high-resolution zoomable images, interactive 3D models, audio and video. Browse ready-to-use items in Discover, paste any IIIF manifest link, or upload your own files on a self-hosted instance.
- Customisable
- Choose from four templates: Scroll, Slides, Kiosk and Quiz. Switch between them at any time without losing your work. Frame exact views or clips, add formatted commentary, and set a light or dark style.
- Shareable
- Publish publicly or protect with a password, embed exhibits in websites and learning platforms, and let others duplicate and build on your work. Self-hosted instances can also print gallery wall cards with QR codes.
- Sustainable
- Built on the open IIIF standard and designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility guidelines, Exhibit is backed by leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums worldwide.
Testimonials
“I have been using Exhibit in teaching and it has proved to be a very useful and engaging tool; it brings a different perspective into object-based learning and familiarises students with digital technologies.”
University of St Andrews
“Exhibit is a brilliant and simple to use tool for telling stories alongside dynamic media. It showcases how powerful IIIF can be when allied with engaging narrative content.”
Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust
“This is just the right kind of platform that British Library curators love using to showcase library collection items - from the Ethiopic "Miracles of Mary", through 19th century Indian poems to Japanese design books, and more!”
British Library
“We have been using Exhibit as part of the IIIF Online Training since it was initially released. We've found it very easy to demonstrate and participants on the course are always excited to use it.”
IIIF Consortium
“From the moment I saw Exhibit.so being demoed at the IIIF Conference in 2022, I have been drumming up excitement to implement it on our campus.”
Dartmouth College