About

This list was created on 5/1/2006 by Sasun Steinbeck and has been maintained since then for the benefit of the wonderful galleries, artists and art lovers in Second Life. Spend some time visiting the galleries and museums by clicking below to visit, spend generously to support the many excellent artists making Second Life such a beautiful and creative place, and send the gallery owners a word of thanks if you enjoyed their gallery!

When in world, be sure to click one of the gallery kiosks found at any of the locations below to get your gallery tour HUDs that make it easy and fun to visit more art galleries in Second Life. Enjoy!

Gallery Owners

If you are a gallery owner and would like to join the list, please go get a kiosk in-world or at xlstreet.com and rez it at your gallery. The kiosk will give you detailed instructions on how to be automatically added to the list.

There are quite a few benefits to joining this list, first and foremost being visibility! This will get your name in front of a lot of people that use this list to find interesting places to visit via the SLURLs on the web page or the tour HUD. In October 2009, there were 2869 clicks or HUD map popups of specific galleries, the vast majority of which resulted in a visit, so this list is definitely being used!

The kiosk also comes with a free visitor counter that can distribute gifts as well as greetings, and provides your own personal visitor chart online! The counter can be configured to an optimal range or turned off if you already have a visitor counter you like.

Gallery Growth Chart

On occasion I will plot the number of galleries on the list to give us a good historical record of art gallery growth in SL:

About the kiosks

The kiosk system used for the gallery list was designed and scripted by me. It is an advanced version of the Kiosk.Net system sold by me commercially. The kiosks contain a notecard that is customized with gallery-specific data by the gallery owner - the gallery name, contact name, gallery type, website, etc. This data is stored in a custom SQL database that you can view live here on this website at any time. The SLURLs are stored as a location a few feet in front of the kiosks, so updating your gallery location is a snap, just move your kiosk and your SLURL will be updated automatically in the database. This makes maintenance of a huge list like this possible. I just give out the kiosks, and the users fill them out. The rest is automatic.