Digital Alchemy in Culture
We create digital tools and experiences for cultural spaces: online, on-site, and everything in between.
Your new digital department.
Born from Lab.SNG, the Slovak National Gallery’s former in-house digital team, we bring over a decade of experience creating thoughtful, open digital tools for culture.
Now independent, Metafori is ready to bring your ideas to life – from the first spark all the way through launch and beyond.
We’re booking new projects for 2026
Rethinking your collection platform or planning something site-specific?
What makes us different?
We handle your whole project.
Curators, designers, and developers working as one. We bring in trusted partners when needed, keeping things simple on your side.
We already speak your language.
Collection care, exhibition planning, audience behavior – we understand the nuance, and we respect the complexity.
We build to launch and sustain.
Need a platform that lasts for years, or something up and running in weeks? We scale with your timeline and budget.
We listen and adjust.
No shortcuts or one-size-fits-all. Just solutions made for your specific needs – from proven concepts to entirely new ideas.
Online collections, done right.
For over a decade, we’ve built and cared for Web Umenia – the largest art catalogue in Central Europe. Along the way, we’ve learned how people explore, what makes an online collection thrive, and how a thoughtful touch can make all the difference.
Those insights are driving our next chapter: a platform that’s flexible, accessible, and open to playful, intuitive discovery. It offers both depth for experts and fresh ways of seeing for curious visitors.
If that sounds like what your collection needs, we’d love to hear from you!
Tailored to context, designed for discovery.
Atlas SNG
Web app, Product design
Digital guide to artworks, exhibitions and curiosities in Slovak National Gallery.
Use playful codes to collect objects on display to your mobile device and delve deeper into their stories.
Design Unpacked
Kiosk app for tablets
Application for touchscreen displays in the permanent design and applied arts exhibition at SNG.
Explore surprising relationships between exhibited objects based on motif, style, or historical context.
The Borderlands
Interactive projection
Immersive installation about the people living in Hungarian border fortresses during the Ottoman wars.
Created for the SNG exhibition Fruits of Discord in collaboration with NohavMede studio.
Fruits of Discord
Kiosk apps for tablets, Projected animation
Animated map of Ottoman expansion, audiovisual explorer of large-scale oil paintings, and tablet-based viewer for archival books, created for exhibition Fruits of Discord at SNG.
Comprehensive digital solution tailored to the multimedia nature of the exhibition.
Bratislava City Art
Web app, Online catalog
A database of public artworks in Bratislava with intuitive map-based browsing.
Discover sculptures, reliefs, fountains, and art objects as you explore the city.
Web umenia
Web app, Online catalog
Online collections of Slovak and Czech galleries and museums, featuring over 180,000 works. Developed from 2015 to 2025 for the SNG.
Discover thousands of artworks by genre, theme, color, artist or technique and explore them in detail.
Open Depo
Web app, Online catalog
A mobile app tailored to the experience of visiting the open depository of the Moravian Gallery.
Sbírky U(P)M
Web app, Online catalog
Rich collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in a simple online catalogue.
Explore unique design, craft, and fine art objects from the Middle Ages through modern times in rich detail.
Register of Modern Architecture
Web app, Online catalog
The landmark works of Slovak modern architecture from the 20th century, visually documented and displayed on an interactive map.
Discover iconic buildings and the stories of their creators, organized by decade and location.
Floating Arboretum
Web app, Online archive
A digital archive capturing the resilience of trees as a symbol of ecological solidarity. Created for the Slovak participation at the 60th Venice Biennale, the website blends poetry, music, and the pavilion’s visual language, while inviting users to share their own stories.
Let’s build something together!
Crafting digital paths through heritage:
easy to follow, hard to forget.
Subscribe for a closer look.