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# New VR game lets you walk around inside a Van Gogh painting
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/step-inside-art-history/
- Published: 2016-06-09T12:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-09T08:32:24.000Z
- Description: Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. THE NIGHT CAFE (PC) BY BORROWED LIGHT STUDIOS The point of going to a museum is to gain a more tactile understanding of a piece of art. Being in front of a picture allows you to see the minute
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
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## THE NIGHT CAFE ([PC](http://store.steampowered.com/app/482390/?ref=killscreen.com))  
BY BORROWED LIGHT STUDIOS

The point of going to a museum is to gain a more tactile understanding of a piece of art. Being in front of a picture allows you to see the minute details of creation—the brush strokes and oil drips. Yet, museums keep you at a literal arms length from the art. But a VR Van Gogh experience titled [*The Night Café*](http://store.steampowered.com/app/482390/?ref=killscreen.com) hopes to correct this discontinuity. Inviting viewers to step inside the swirling vibrancy of Van Gogh’s *Le Café de nuit*, it allows you to explore the painting as a 3D environment. Last year, *Kill Screen* writer [David Rudin described how](http://killscreendaily.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e454afe361d537efc2455ada0&id=e5165f0d58&e=72eebb4f4a&ref=killscreen.com) “each frame of *The Night Café* is a painting in its own right.” Leaning in to the tension between traditional art and interactive art, *The Night Café* turns viewers into more active participants of the piece, allowing them to frame and experience the work as they see fit.

**Perfect for:** VR junkies, artists, museum lovers

**Playtime:** 10 minutes or forever

![The Night Cafe](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ss_94a9e65bce747bf27e51ed47133de4199a32d6d3.1920x1080.jpg)