When you visit a museum today, you expect more than glass cases and wall texts. You expect to step inside a painting. To watch a centuries-old textile pattern ripple beneath your feet. To reach out and “touch” a digital artifact.
Behind these evolving expectations—whether in a museum display of ancient artifacts, a traveling exhibition showcase, or a hands-on science museum exhibition—is a technology partner you may not have heard of: BOE.
As a leading global display manufacturer (supplying screens for Apple, Samsung, and nearly every major tech brand), BOE has spent the past five years building a specialized portfolio: display solutions purpose-built for museums and cultural institutions.
This article explores how BOE’s technology is being deployed across three key exhibition formats—museum displays, exhibition showcases, and science museum exhibitions—and why cultural institutions worldwide are taking notice.
If you’re a museum director, exhibition designer, or cultural administrator, here’s what sets BOE’s offerings apart for your next museum display or exhibition showcase:
BOE holds patents for “lossless gamma” technology, ensuring digital reproductions of paintings, textiles, and artifacts retain the original texture, brushwork, and color accuracy. For institutions creating high‑fidelity museum displays, this means visitors see works as the artist or craftsman intended—not a digitized approximation.
From artifact scanning (4K/8K photography, 3D modeling, VR capture) to exhibition design, installation, and maintenance, BOE offers a full‑service model. For museums producing traveling exhibition showcases or permanent installations, this simplifies complex projects into a single workflow.
BOE’s digital content platform now hosts over 40,000 professional artworks and partners with more than 300 cultural institutions, including the National Library of China and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. For science museum exhibitions requiring explanatory visuals, interactive content, or historical context, this library provides ready‑to‑use material.
In 2019, BOE led the development of H.629.1, the first international standard for digital art displays (published by the International Telecommunication Union). The company has since formed an industry alliance with over 150 members, giving cultural institutions confidence in display quality and consistency across museum display installations.
Technology | Best For | Core Value for Cultural Institutions |
Paper‑like touch screens | Interactive museum displays | Enables visitors to “handle” fragile artifacts without risk; preserves original texture and color fidelity for high‑value collections |
Glasses‑free 3D | High‑impact exhibition showcases | Creates immediate visual impact without headsets; ideal for high‑traffic areas where accessibility and throughput matter |
Transparent displays | Science museum exhibitions | Bridges object and explanation; allows visitors to see “inside” complex artifacts or machinery |
Modular “M‑BOX” units | Pop‑up museum displays, outreach | Low‑cost, transportable solution for reaching audiences beyond museum walls |
360° projection + 3D mapping | Immersive museum displays | Transforms static gallery spaces into dynamic narrative environments |
Smart calligraphy desks | Hands‑on exhibition showcases | Lowers participation barrier; works across languages and cultures |
Radar‑sensitive floors | Interactive science museum exhibitions | Encourages exploration and extends dwell time through playful engagement |
In March 2026, at a major international art event in Hong Kong, BOE and MGM unveiled what looked less like a screen and more like a sculpture: an “M”-shaped, four-fold Mini LED museum display.
This wasn’t just a visual gimmick. The installation combined glasses-free 3D with 8K ultra-high definition, creating a museum display where content seemed to physically spill out of the screen. Over the course of the event, it showcased priceless Silk Road artifacts from the Poly MGM Museum and highlights from Macao 2049, MGM’s flagship theatrical production.
Technology | Why It Matters |
M‑shaped Mini LED | A custom display that doubled as architecture—proof that museum displays can be as expressive as the objects they show |
Glasses‑free 3D + 8K | Let visitors experience depth and detail without headsets, improving accessibility in high‑traffic museum settings |
Full‑room AV integration | A complete package: displays, audio, and control systems working as one for seamless museum display operation |
Deep‑Rooted Need This Museum Display Addresses:
Cultural institutions increasingly compete for attention in crowded entertainment markets. A signature museum display—something visitors photograph and share—has become essential. This installation demonstrates how custom‑designed display technology can serve as both content carrier and architectural statement, solving the dual challenge of creating buzz while delivering substantive cultural content.
BOE’s deepest cultural partnership is with one of the world’s most visited museums: the Palace Museum (the Forbidden City) in Beijing.
In August 2023, the two signed a formal strategic agreement focused on advancing museum display technology. But their collaboration had already been underway for years.
In early 2025, at the Suzhou Bay Digital Art Museum, BOE and the Palace Museum co‑presented an immersive museum display built entirely around traditional Chinese patterns—the decorative motifs found on architecture, ceramics, and textiles.
Visitors walked through a 360‑degree projection that changed with the seasons. A radar‑sensitive floor made patterns bloom beneath their feet. An AR installation reconstructed a long‑closed theater inside the Forbidden City that few visitors ever get to see.
Technology | Why It Matters |
360° projection + 3D mapping | Transforms passive viewing into immersive storytelling—essential for modern museum displays |
Radar‑sensitive floors | Turns the audience into part of the art; extends visitor dwell time in museum displays |
AR reconstruction | Ideal for sites where physical restoration isn’t possible—expanding what a museum display can show |
Deep‑Rooted Need This Museum Display Addresses:
Traditional artifact displays often struggle to convey context—the lived environment, the craftsmanship process, the cultural significance. This museum display demonstrates how a combination of immersive technologies can transform passive viewing into active exploration, solving the engagement challenge that plagues many cultural institutions.
For the Palace Museum’s 100th anniversary, BOE created a glasses‑free 3D exhibition showcase featuring six iconic artifacts, each chosen for its distinctive color, pattern, and form.
The result? Visitors could see the texture of imperial porcelain and the weave of silk brocade as if the objects were floating in front of them—no headset required.
Deep‑Rooted Need This Exhibition Showcase Addresses:
Anniversary exhibitions face a specific challenge: they must feel special and memorable, yet they often have limited space for displaying rare artifacts. This exhibition showcase demonstrates how focused, high‑impact digital displays can create a sense of occasion without requiring large physical footprints or risking damage to original objects.
Source: https://www.ewin-tech.com/about/news/1022116083.html
Using a combination of digital projection and spatial design, BOE created a digital museum display that recreates the Qianlong Garden, an 18th‑century imperial retreat. The installation allows visitors to walk through a space that is physically fragile and rarely open to the public.
Deep‑Rooted Need This Museum Display Addresses:
Heritage sites face an impossible tension: they must preserve fragile spaces while also making them accessible. Digital museum displays offer a way out of this dilemma, demonstrating how high‑fidelity spatial documentation can open up spaces that would otherwise remain permanently closed.
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nNhfyGEVprkB16vMZsq1nQ
Since 2021, BOE has run an annual traveling exhibition showcase called “Hello BOE.” It has visited 15 cities—Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, Milan, and more—and reached over 5 million visitors.
In 2025, the tour stopped in Zhuhai, a coastal city in southern China, where it partnered with the Palace Museum to create “Encountering the Forbidden City in Zhuhai” —a traveling exhibition showcase designed for broad accessibility.
In one section, visitors could “flip through” digital artifacts using BOE’s paper‑like touch screens. In another, a 40‑meter‑long LED wall recreated the famous scroll painting A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains with such fidelity that viewers could see individual brushstrokes.
Technology | Why It Matters |
Paper‑like touch screens | Enables interactive artifact exploration—a core feature of modern exhibition showcases |
P1.5 paper‑like LED | Ideal for long scroll paintings; anti‑glare and energy‑efficient for traveling exhibition showcases |
Transparent LED screens | Creates layered visual effects—perfect for exhibition showcases blending digital content with physical space |
Deep‑Rooted Need This Exhibition Showcase Addresses:
Museums increasingly want to reach audiences beyond their physical locations, but traditional traveling exhibitions are logistically complex and expensive. This traveling exhibition showcase demonstrates how standardized, transportable display technology can create high‑quality experiences at scale—essentially turning museum collections into content that can be easily distributed.
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BOE has also become a quiet force in cultural diplomacy, deploying exhibition showcases at major international venues.
At the Louvre, during an exhibition titled “The Rebirth of Intangible Heritage,” BOE served as the lead display technology partner for this high‑profile exhibition showcase. The event marked the first time “Hello BOE” traveled outside China.
Source: https://www.boe.com.cn/company/dynamic-e8e4bc6413a942b3b75bb4c2998e2d7d
In October 2025—coinciding with the 55th anniversary of China‑Italy diplomatic relations—BOE brought a major exhibition showcase to Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan.
The centerpiece: a 105‑inch “Vista” screen (5,120×2,160 resolution) displaying an animated short based on the classical Chinese text The Debate Between Tea and Wine. Nearby, a transparent 55‑inch screen showed the intricate structure of a traditional Chinese covered bridge, while visitors tried their hand at calligraphy on BOE’s smart calligraphy desk.
Technology | Why It Matters |
105‑inch Vista screen | High‑resolution, interactive—ideal for flagship exhibition showcases at international events |
Transparent display | Perfect for science museum exhibition-style explanations; bridges object and understanding |
Smart calligraphy desk | A hands‑on experience that works across cultures—no translation needed for this exhibition showcase |
Deep‑Rooted Need This Exhibition Showcase Addresses:
Cross‑cultural exhibition showcases face unique challenges: language barriers, unfamiliarity with the source culture, and the need to communicate complex traditions quickly. This installation demonstrates how interactive, multi‑modal display technology can overcome these barriers, creating entry points that purely textual explanations cannot.
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One of BOE’s most innovative recent projects bridges museum display and science museum exhibition approaches: “M‑BOX,” a partnership with the Hunan Provincial Museum.
The concept is simple: a modular, transportable science museum exhibition that can be set up in malls, public squares, or community centers. The first edition, “One Day at Mawangdui,” used immersive projection and AI‑driven interaction to bring a 2,200‑year‑old Han Dynasty tomb to life.
This science museum exhibition format demonstrates how archaeological content can be presented with the explanatory clarity of a science museum exhibition—breaking down complex historical concepts through interactive, data‑driven technology.
Technology | Why It Matters |
Immersive projection + AI interaction | Transforms archaeological content into accessible, explanatory experiences—the hallmark of a great science museum exhibition |
Modular, transportable design | Allows this science museum exhibition format to reach audiences beyond traditional museum spaces |
Interactive engagement | Encourages hands‑on exploration, making complex historical narratives approachable like a well‑designed science museum exhibition |
Deep‑Rooted Need This Science Museum Exhibition Addresses:
Small and medium‑sized museums often lack the budget to create high‑quality digital experiences. Meanwhile, large museums have vast collections that most visitors will never see. The M‑BOX concept addresses both problems: it provides a standardized, cost‑effective platform that can make museum collections portable—allowing institutions to reach new audiences while keeping production costs manageable, all packaged in the accessible format of a science museum exhibition.
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BOE isn’t just supplying screens for other people’s museums. Through its subsidiary Ewin Technology, it’s building its own museum display venues—designed from the start as digital‑first spaces.
Location | Venue | Exhibition Focus |
Suzhou | Suzhou Bay Digital Art Museum | China’s first fully digital museum display space |
Beijing | Ewin Digital Art Center (Wangfujing) | Urban cultural museum display hub |
Yibin, Sichuan | Ewin Digital Art Center | Regional museum display innovation center |
Shenyang, Liaoning | “Drunken Liaoning” Ewin Digital Art Center | Immersive museum display experiences |
These venues serve as living laboratories for BOE’s museum display, exhibition showcase, and science museum exhibition technologies—demonstrating what’s possible when display technology is integrated into the architectural fabric of cultural spaces.
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https://baike.baidu.com/item/京东方艺云科技有限公司/58948039
https://paper.bdcn-media.com/h5/html5/2025-04/10/content_3_3529.htm
For decades, the conversation about technology and culture has focused on one question: How do we preserve the past?
BOE is asking a slightly different one: How do we make the past—and the scientific principles that explain it—something people can step into?
Whether you’re curating a permanent museum display for a history collection, designing a traveling exhibition showcase for international audiences, or creating a hands‑on science museum exhibition for young learners, BOE’s display solutions offer a way to make cultural content feel present, accessible, and alive.