by 0x6240b908f4880da265c2e55d5ca644b50a4cb0d4 (dclmuseum)
Should the following $60,000 grant in the In-World Content category be approved?
Abstract
The Museum District has been part of the Decentraland community since its inception. Since its founding, the Museum District has hosted multiple events and introduced artists and brands such as Pinta/Cifo, Colon Theater, Nicolas Garcia Uriburu, Hyundai, Mango, among others.
This grant request aims to continue developing the Museum District scene, supporting the current team behind it. Expenses will be allocated 80% towards the core team (comprising 3D design, software development, and architecture) and 20% to support communications.
Our goal is to keep the scene vibrant, attract new artists and brands to the space, create new events, and continue enhancing our user experience by testing the VR client and Worlds scenes.
Grant size
60,000 USD in DAI
Project duration
6 months
Beneficiary address
0x6240b908f4880Da265c2e55d5CA644B50a4Cb0d4
Email address
Description
The Museum team has been active since the early days of the project, drawing attention to the entire ecosystem by organizing multiple events and collaborating with top artists from both the traditional and crypto art spaces.
This project has always aimed to create culturally relevant experiences. The funds from the grant will be allocated to projects such as:
- Developing Colon Theater scenes and deploying them in Worlds.
- Creating 2 new events with the Own The Doge Community in November and October
- Creating an event for the Music Festival with an argentinean musician.
- Releasing a new Museum Curation Mechanics platform.
- Continuing to activate IRL events and introducing the Metaverse to new audiences at art and educational events.
- Maintaining the Museum District’s source code and modifying scenes in the Genesis Map.
- Continously testing the VR client and showcase it on private events.
The projects we aim to activate focus on art and educational purposes, areas we will continue to explore in the coming years. Our primary focus currently is on introducing new potential landmarks to the scenes (such as the Colon Theater or the Finnish Metagallery designed by Adventure Club), bringing renowned artists into the scene (such as Pinta/CIFO or Nicolas Garcia Uriburu), and exploring new ways to engage with the audience.
We will also release a new curation mechanism for the museum that allows users greater participation in curation and future development of the various scenes the museum showcases. Main idea behind this new platform is to create a curated metaverse space by the community.
Besides this we are also in talks for two new events during Q4 with the Own the Doge community, that will take place in October and November, we expect that this events bring a more crypto traditional community into the scene. Own The Doge is the DAO behind the original Doge NFT, founded by PleasrDAO in 2021. We will be working in a few more interactive approachs to engage the users during this events.
Also a new argentinean musician will be presented during the Music Festival.
We expect then to create 4 events over the next 6 months at least on the main scenes, always looking to collaborate with other crypto communities or stablished artists. The reach of our content should consider at least 100 visitors per event and also social media reach. In order to measure our engagement we will be tracking the active users and time on scene.
Roadmap and milestones
Our roadmap is an ongoing endeavor where we are continously looking for new events to help them and sustain our currents partnerships with different artistic projects. At the same time we have set up some milestones that we aim to achieve next quarter.
The milestones for the Q4 quarter are:
- 2 Events on Decentraland working with the Own the Doge Community: two events have already been arranged with the Own the doge community for November and October.
- A music oriented event to take place within the Genesis city with an argentinean musician and later deployed on DCL Worlds.
- Release of our new Museum Platform: our new webpage will serve as a new curation mechanism for the museum allowing users to vote on the art that should be exposed to the new museum “frontends” (different venues)
- Present DCL VR client in 1 IRL events: we are already commited for different events in real life and we are aiming to be able to showcase a DCL world scene in VR in the next quarter depending on the client evolution. This would be really useful for marketing materials for the hole DCL community
For the other quarter we should aim to improve and engage more users within the museum community with the new curation mechanism already in place and some games within the scene, allowing users to see multiple galleries and modifying the scene to be performant in the VR client.