3D Virtual Gallery. OpenVGal

A room of an OpenVGal 3D virtual gallery: photographs hung on grey walls under track lights

Would you like to create a 3D Virtual Gallery with your artwork? OpenVGal maybe the answer.

OpenVgal started in June 2022 as a personal project to provide myself, or anyone, a way to build an interactive 3D virtual gallery programmatically.

  • A virtual 3D gallery means showing your artwork in an art gallery space that only exists inside your browser, like you move on a video game.
  • Programmatically means that you do not need to design the hall or halls of the galleries, or deal with the 3D work, or the browser code to move around it. You just need organize your collections in folders and run some code provided here.

I was inspired by what Oncyber was creating but they had not open sourced the project.  In this website you have two examples of OpenVGal deployment:

Photography

Aquarelle

Since then it has evolved pretty much and in April 2025 I launched v2 that made it easier by using a single executable.

Rather than explain it, you can just watch this introduction video:

Source code and additional tutorials

The source code and further information is available at the Github repository:

https://github.com/lbartworks/openvgal

And this one shows how to host your gallery for free: