Özet:

With the rapid rise of metaverse technology, which is a collosal three-dimensional virtual arena that allow learning, creating, socializing, working, collaborating and playing games in cyberspace with limitless users; and the spread of virtual platforms globally, new metaverse museums and the metaverse formations of the existing physical museums, in which their NFT works are exhibited, were opened for use. The aim of this study is to understand the development of metaverse museums by helping to establish the relationship between metaverse museums and physical museums. Within the scope of the study, new discussion topics about the design features, functioning and museum experiences of the metaverse museums have been revealed by making use of selected examples from the world and Türkiye. Comparisons were made between metaverse museums and physical museums in terms of the issues related to construction, exhibition arrangement, artifacts, management and accessibility. The strengths and weaknesses of the metaverse museums, the threats they face and opportunities are listed in order to identify the strengths arising from the factors related to the functioning and to be aware of the weaknesses, as well as to prevent the possible threats posed by the use and to reveal the opportunities for the future. As a result, as the relationship between physical museums and metaverse museums gets stronger, user activity and popularity would increase accordingly. Analyzing the positive and negative reflections of the museum experience in Metaverse into real life, it should be ensured that the space and exhibition quality that exists in the real and virtual worlds and the designs in which technology tools are used should be developed.