This application enables users to interact more deeply with a selection of objects found in the Hood Museum and across the Dartmouth College campus. This ability to “augment reality” is initiated by simply pointing the camera of a phone or hand-held device toward some of Dartmouth’s most treasured artistic and cultural works. In turn, this prompts dots to appear on screen and enables users to uncover facts and interpretations about the works in question.

In this second release, works related to the Hood Museum’s “This Land” exhibition (Winter 2022) and to the college’s permanent collection—such as The Epic of American Civilization by José Clemente Orozco and a variety of artefacts on display in Baker Berry Library that relate to the college’s history—can be augmented in this fashion.

The current project is supported by the Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award from the Office of the Provost, Dartmouth College. Past funding provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College, the Committee for the 250th celebration of the College, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), and the Hood Museum.