A 3D gallery for every show, and every art fair booth
Draw your gallery once, or the booth you booked. Hang each exhibition in it at real size, and let collectors walk through the show on a phone or computer before a crate is opened.
On Studio Pro and Gallery Pro, with no limit on spaces, walls or furniture. No app, no plugin. Planning a fair?
How a 3D gallery works
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Draw the space
Draw walls corner to corner, or upload your floor plan, set its scale from one wall you know, and let ArtVault find the walls. Add doors, windows, raised floors and furniture, and name each room.
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Hang the show
Drag works from the tray onto the walls. They hang at real size and depth, at the center height you choose, and never over a door or window. Or hang the whole show in one go and adjust.
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Share the walk-through
The room page and the exhibition page get a Walk through button. Send the link, embed it on any site, put it on a gallery screen, or print the QR code.
The space designer
A floor plan editor made for galleries. Trace a scanned plan or draw from scratch, and the 3D room builds itself as you go.
- Walls snap to right angles, to each other and to a 3 inch grid, with lengths as you draw
- Curved walls, freestanding partitions and walls of their own height
- Doorways, single and double doors, painted, glass or framed
- Windows with a sill, plain or with mullions and rails
- Raised floors and stages with steps visitors can climb
- Benches, desks, plinths, plants, columns and counters from a picture menu
- Rooms with their own names and ceiling heights
- Floors by picture: boards, herringbone, polished concrete, terrazzo, carpet, in any shade
- Baseboards, flush walls or a museum reveal, and one wall color for the space
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Walk through
Hanging the show
Any viewing room or exhibition hangs in any space. One hanging serves the exhibition page, the viewing room and the walk-through.
- Works hang at real size and depth, snapped to the nearest wall
- The show’s center height, 57″ museum standard, 60″ or any height per work
- Frames: none, black, dark wood, light wood or white
- Hang the rest fills free walls in order, clear of doors and corners
- Number the show clockwise from the entrance, or click the works in your order
- Wall text in nine typefaces and your logo, with print-ready files for the sign shop
- A 3D view beside the plan that you can orbit or walk while you hang
- Named layouts: the artist can propose a hanging and you choose which one goes live
What visitors see
Set per show, so one space can present two exhibitions differently.
- An intro card with the show’s cover, title and dates
- A label card beside each work, a small info dot, or nothing on the wall
- Choose what the label says: title, artist, year, medium, size, price
- A red dot on sold works, or leave them unmarked
- A guided tour from work to work, at the pace you set
- A plan of the room in the corner, with the visitor on it
- Gallery white, warm or dramatic lighting, and reflections in a polished floor
- View details, Inquire, Purchase and View on your wall on each work
Art fair booths, planned in 3D before they ship
The booth is a space like any other. Build it from the fair’s floor plan or the sizes on your contract, hang it with the works you are bringing, and send collectors a walk-through with the VIP invitations. The works come from your inventory, so the labels, prices and inquiries are already wired up.
Three ways to start the booth
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Upload the fair’s floor plan
The fair publishes its plan as a PDF. Save the page as a picture, upload it, set the scale from one booth whose size you know, and trace your own over it. Walls can be any height, so a 12 foot perimeter reads as it will on the floor.
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Draw it from the contract
A 20 by 20 is four clicks. Add free walls and plinths, and the 3D view beside the plan changes as you draw.
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Start from a ready-made booth
Pick the size on your contract, rename it, and hang. Every wall is open to the aisle and everything in it can be changed.
Booths at the sizes the fairs sell
Drawn from the exhibitor applications of Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary and the convention center fairs. Pick one, rename it, and change anything.
- In-line booths at 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1,000 and 1,200 square feet, behind 12 foot walls
- A 400 square foot corner booth, open on two sides
- The 200 square foot CONTEXT Vision booth
- An Aqua Art Miami hotel room, 240 square feet
- 30 and 40 square meter convention center booths
- 10 by 10 and 10 by 20 foot booths for smaller fairs
- Free walls, plinths and partitions inside the larger booths
- The fair’s table and chairs from the furniture menu, when wanted
The rest of fair week runs on the same records
The booth is one feature of a gallery platform: inventory, contacts, sales, website and email in one system. The planner reads from it rather than standing beside it.
- Hang the booth with the works you are shipping, from the same inventory, weeks before the crates leave
- Send collectors the walk-through with your VIP invitations, so they arrive knowing what to look for
- Put the QR code on the booth wall, or run presentation mode on a screen at the stand
- An inquiry on any work in the 3D booth lands in your inbox against the collector and the work
- Add the collectors you meet from your phone, with the works they liked
- Record a sale on the work and the invoice, certificate and consignor statement come from it
- The booth’s viewing room and walk-through publish to your own website the day the fair opens
- After the fair, email the collectors who came, with the works they saw
Questions about 3D galleries and art fair booths
A 3D virtual gallery is a model of your exhibition space that visitors walk through in a web browser. In ArtVault Works you draw the space or trace its floor plan, hang the show in it at real size, and share a link. Collectors walk through on a phone or computer, click a work to read its label, inquire or buy, and put it on their own wall with augmented reality.
Yes. Upload the fair’s floor plan and trace your booth, draw it from the sizes on your contract, or start from a ready-made booth: in-line booths from 300 to 1,200 square feet, a corner booth, the CONTEXT Vision booth, an Aqua Art Miami hotel room, 30 and 40 square meter convention center booths, and 10 by 10 and 10 by 20 foot booths. Hang it with the works you are bringing and send collectors the walk-through before the fair opens.
No. The walk-through runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no download, plugin or account. Visitors drag to look around, tap or click to walk, and open any work for its details.
Yes. Every work hangs at its real width, height and depth from the dimensions in your inventory, snapped to the wall at the center height you choose, with the frame you choose. A 60 inch canvas reads as 60 inches next to a door.
Yes. Upload a scan or photo of the plan, set its scale from one wall you know, and ArtVault finds the walls. You can also draw from scratch, or start from a plain room, a shaped room, one of seven New York gallery plans or an art fair booth. Doors, windows, raised floors, columns and furniture are added from a picture menu.
Yes. Every published room and exhibition gets a Walk through button, a direct link on your own domain, embed code for any website, a 3D Gallery block in the ArtVault website builder, a QR code to print, and a presentation mode for a gallery screen that runs the tour on its own.
The 3D gallery and the booth planner are on the Studio Pro plan, from $74 a month billed annually or $89 monthly, and the Gallery Pro plan, from $149 a month billed annually or $179 monthly, with no limit on spaces, walls or furniture. Both start with a free trial.
A photographed space is fixed. An ArtVault space is a model you own: hang any show in it, change the wall color, the lighting and the floor per show, number the works, add wall text, and let an artist propose a hanging you can compare with your own. One hanging serves the exhibition page, the viewing room and the walk-through, and the works stay linked to your inventory, contacts and sales.
Every step, from drawing the floor plan to printing the QR code, is in the support guides. Plans and prices are on the pricing page.
Walk through a real show
Soft Signals, hung in ArtVault at Morrison Gallery. It opens in your browser.