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Make a Museum
Courtesy Nintendo via The Met
These paintings in the game came from the Met’s collection!
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players create their own island community full of cute animal neighbors and colorful decorations. Now, you can add world-class art to your island! Museums around the world created digital versions of their artworks for the game. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City made more than 406,000!
To turn a real-world piece of art into an in-game decoration, the artwork is simplified into a grid of colored pixels. This grid is then turned into a QR code that you can scan with a Nintendo Switch.
“We believe everyone can find a favorite artwork in the Met’s collection that they would absolutely love to be able to experience every day,” says Sofie Andersen, the interim head of digital at the Met.
Artwork in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on a 32 by 32 grid of pixels. One of the top downloads from the Met is Under the Wave off Kanagawa (pictured above). About 1/2 of the pixels in the Animal Crossing version represent sky. How many pixels is that? Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.