Digital Art House project’s main objective was to develop and serve art and culture professionals and organisations by providing digital operating models from the perspective of best practises and service design. Project ended in fall 2025.

We enchanced our partners’ activities in concrete terms, for example by implementing an advanced online shop for events and services, as well as products directly from the Art House Turku website. In addition, we trained our operators by organising seminars, demos and workshops, creating concrete skills to make use of digitalisation. The project started from the needs of the Art House Turku’s own community and scaled up from the national level to the international and Web 3.0 era technologies.

CULTURHUB sub-project focused in particular on expanding the network of international and digital cooperation, for which the Art House Turku’s membership of the Trans Europe Halles network provides a strong basis. The core functionality of CULTURHUB is built around a digital co-residency, which will expand into a virtual co-residency. The community is still open to all professionals in the arts, culture and technology, as well as representatives of organisations.

Virtual Art House (VAH) was an extension to the Art House Turku in parallel reality: it is a complete culture centre in virtual reality, with exhibitions, events and performances, as well as a place to work and meet. A completely non-physical and real-time multi-user environment will enable a whole new way of experiencing culture anywhere, anytime. For cultural professionals, the virtual environment enabled entirely new ways of performing and exhibiting productions. The VAH was open to the public as an international Extra Live event, accessible via PC or VR glasses.

NextGeneration EU -funded Digital Art House project expanded our culture centre’s activities as a pioneer of digital and international activities in the Finnish cultural ecosystem and also in an international context.