Image: Nintendo via The Met

The Met is celebrating 150 years of collecting and presenting works of art in its galleries. But now, some of those works can be in a gallery of your very own: the sizable, virtual museums of Animal Crossing.

The in-game art museum and Blathers, its owl curator, have been beloved features of the video game series for nearly twenty years. In honor of their official return in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the latest entry of the popular life-simulation game, and alongside the incredible efforts of our colleagues at The Getty, CAM, and museums around the world, The Met's Digital Department has made the Museum's entire collection of more than 406,000 Open Access images easy to transport into your virtual homes and islands.

From top left: Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach, ca. 1883; Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, ca. 1890; Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus of Rotterdam, ca. 1532; Coptic Textile Fragment with Image of a Goddess, late 3rd–4th century; Fragment of a Queen's Face, ca. 1353–1336 B.C.; Vincent Van Gogh, Madame Roulin and Her Baby, 1888; Georges de La Tour, The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s; Gustav Klimt, Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), 1912–13; Georges de La Tour, The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s. Image: Nintendo via The Met

Here's how it works:

Browse our collection online, and when you've found an object that you would like to display, select the share icon under its image and look for this icon to access our Animal Crossing QR-code generator. Crop the image to your liking, and scan the QR code using the Nintendo Switch Online app (there are lots of guides on how to use the QR-code scanner, including this one at Polygon).

Note that if an artwork has multiple images, you can only convert Open Access images.