50: A Virtual Tour of the 1851 Great Exhibition

The VR simulation project is 1 year old! Here is a "VR headset view" tour.

NOTE: future videos will be released at 2-week intervals

00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Prince of Wales Gate
00:59 - Shepherd's Electric Clock
01:17 - Entrance lobby
01:52 - South Transept
02:21 - Crystal Fountain
02:32 - North Transept
03:17 - Main refreshment court
03:40 - Queen's entrance & retiring room
03:53 - Waiting rooms (urinals & flushing toilets)
04:15 - The Nave
04:27 - India
04:41 - Sculptures: Duke of Rutland; Horse & Dragon; Sir William Follett; Bashaw dog
05:12 - Province of Canada
05:26 - British Sculpture Court
05:40 - Fine Arts Court
06:00 - Stone cross; marble pillars; papier-mâché; Broadwood piano
06:14 - Eldon & Stowell
06:20 - Dent's turret clock
06:32 - Great Hydraulic Press & Nasmyth Steam Hammer
06:45 - Coalbrookdale Dome; lighthouse lens; Roos telescope
06:59 - Prince Albert's Model Houses for the Labouring Classes
07:25 - Western refreshment court
07:36 - Liverpool docks; Willis organ
07:48 - Cheesewring column; anchors; railway level crossing gates
08:12 - Richard Couer de Lyon
08:29 - William Wallace
08:42 - Agricultural section
08:54 - Persia; Ottoman Empire; China; Tunis
09:08 - Koh-i-noor diamond & Prince of Wales shield
09:24 - Dr Jenner; Marquis of Bute; John Flaxman
09:44 - Toboso wine jar & Spanish coat of arms
09:56 - Gobelins room
10:07 - Highland Mary
10:23 - Stained glass window: Dante and some of his ideas
10:28 - Radetzky & Austrian Sculpture Court
10:35 - German sculpture
11:28 - US section: Greek Slave & model bridge
11:35 - Gray & Davison organ

The list of statues at the exhibition has been updated (224 works are now listed):
https://hookedwit.uk/statuary.html

Full project credits are here:
https://www.hookedwit.uk/credits.html

Attributions (sculptures we have scanned):
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron (Boy & Swan fountain): https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/visit/coalbrookdale-museum-of-iron/
Stratfield Saye House / The Wellington Estate (Horse & Dragon): https://wellington.co.uk/stratfield-saye-house/
The Dean & Chapter of Westminster (model of Sir William Webb Follett): https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/william-webb-follett
The Master and Fellows of University College Oxford (Eldon & Stowell): https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/digital-model-of-the-old-librarys-statues/
Victoria and Albert Museum (Eagle Slayer): https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O102469/the-eagle-slayer-statue-bell-john/
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron (Eagle Slayer): https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/visit/coalbrookdale-museum-of-iron/
Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard I), Sculpture by Carlo Marochetti, UK Parliament WOA S74.
University College London Art Museum (Flaxman): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/ucl-art-museum
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Highland Mary): https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-gallery

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