Museums have always been custodians of knowledge and historical facts, but in 2020 interest in them was not so great. It’s time to revive it, using the important habitat of a modern audience – the Internet space. Simple themes with interesting color schemes and graphics, as well as a set of special options are the best option for creating a site that shows how interesting a museum or exhibition can be. The following Museum WordPress templates and Art gallery WordPress themes are designed to help a beautiful niche regain public attention and not become a thing of the past.
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9 Museum and Gallery WordPress Templates that will help create a website for the Museum or Art Gallery.
1. Bridge
Creative multi-purpose WordPress template presents 2 demo sites of Culture theme: Br and Museum. Br is a simple, minimalist designed Art gallery WordPress theme with three sections: Collection, Exhibitions and Contacts. It is distinguished by the original placement of images on the main page – they are non-linear and are present even in the footer. The Museum WordPress template will work great as a site for a historical museum or art gallery. Its bright detail is creatively executed image sliders, located one under the other and scrolling at different speeds, which creates a displacement effect.
2. Galleria Metropolia
A sophisticated and smart WordPress template designed for sites such as an art museum and exhibition gallery. The theme has an expanded portfolio functionality that will allow you to beautifully present the work of artists, provide information about them and interest the user in visiting the gallery.
By adding a section of the online store to the site, you can start selling prints of paintings online, sculptures and other art objects. The template has beautiful and super-functional options, a set of ready-made designs and powerful blog options. Versatile and easy-to-use shortcodes act as excellent “building blocks” when creating pages.
3. Cultera
Responsive WordPress template for art blogs and online culture magazines on the themes of “culture”, “art”, “creativity”, “music”. The template uses the Elementor builder, which produces pages with a high-quality design and advanced features. Cultera supports an exclusive Event Manager event management plugin and is also ready to work with WooCommerce.
Available post formats: text, video, audio, link, gallery. On the publication page, you can display the “Similar posts” block. Template pages are presented for the builder, blog (4 styles), 404 errors, archive entries, search results, design options in full screen width.
5. Newspaper
The universal Newspaper newsletter introduces the Art Creek artist WordPress theme, a creative blog for an artist or cultural observer. Each block of the first half of the main page is a carousel slider. The drop-down menu contains a preview with images and tabs by category.
In the lower half, a sticky sidebar appears with information about the author of the blog, a slider for popular posts and previews of new articles, and a list of recent blog posts with pagination is displayed in the main content in 2 columns. In the footer of a contrasting color posted links to social networks. When scrolling, the “Up” button pops up at the bottom of the screen.
5. BeTheme
A multi-functional theme with responsive design offers a choice of 2 museum demo sites: BeMuseum and BeMuseum2. BeMuseum is suitable for the Museum of Classical Art. It is decorated in soft shades of gray and beige, and contains sections of the blog, gallery, exhibitions, contacts.
The BeMuseum2 design is more modern and uses parallax backgrounds, vibrant thematic icons and non-standard positioning of elements, it is ideal for a museum of modern art and photo exhibitions. In the “Artists” section, a list of artists’ cards is displayed that contains a photo, a short bio, a gallery of 4 works and a link to a separate page of the author.
6. Arte
Premium WordPress template for galleries or art exhibitions, endowed with unique niche options and functionality. Its design is adapted for the site of an art gallery, sculpture exhibition, photo exhibition. Arte includes exclusively designed pages for information about artists, posting historical facts. VisualComposer, EventsSchedule, and Slider Revolution are supplied as part of the theme, which saves $ 88.
The template is optimized for search engines, provides quick loading of the site, supports integration with social networks. All demo content can be used in real projects. Arte works with the icon font Crisp Font, which has 600+ icons in its arsenal.
7. Museum
Responsive Bootstrap theme created especially for museums. Laconic design, clean optimized code, impressive css effects and animations, built-in bootstrap shortcodes, integration with MailChimp Newsletter and Contact Form 7 are some of its advantages. The start page of the site is available in two versions; a ready-made 404 error page is also available.
Demo projects on the museum website template use google maps and fonts, Font Awesome icons. In each section of the site, different parallax backgrounds for the header are installed, a translucent layer with a color gradient is superimposed on the background image. Gallery photos can be shared on twitter and facebook via the built-in buttons.
8. Vestige Museum
An adaptive template focused on projects of such topics as the Museum, Events, Charity events, Non-profit organizations. Its advantages: pre-installed for free plugins Isotope Gallery ($ 25), Slider Revolution9 ($ 25), Events Manager for creating events, Exhibition Manager for creating exhibitions, Calendar of events synchronized with Google Events.
The template is made on Bootstrap 3, it uses the Font Awesome and Line Icons icon fonts, it is configured for retina screens, it includes a widget for twitter feed feed. All sliders support mobile touch / scroll options.
9. Visual Arts
Stylish gallery WordPress theme template “Fine Art” will help create a portfolio site for an exhibition or art school. 19 hover effects in different colors, 6 cursor styles, separation and filter by category are available for the photo portfolio.
Visual Arts has added 150 shortcode elements. There are addon shortcodes for the portfolio: custom elements, a random image, grids for the gallery (up to 10 columns), navigation, similar portfolios, categories. When buying a theme, you get 16 plugins for free, separately priced at $ 89.
The main purpose of the website of an art gallery, museum or photo exhibition is to present these institutions or cultural events in a favorable light and attract more visitors. The templates we have reviewed achieve this goal due to thoughtful quality design and the presence of beautiful built-in galleries. It remains to choose the one that best suits the concept of your business.
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