Gabriel Dawe, Plexus A1 (Photo by Benjamin Strahs)

Gabriel Dawe, Plexus A1 (Photos by Benjamin Strahs)

The Renwick Gallery may have closed its most popular exhibit this summer, but the Smithsonian is inviting people to re-immerse themselves in the beauty of WONDER on their phones. And in 3D, to boot.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has created an app that lets viewers virtually walk through the museum with 360-degree, 3D panoramic views, and watch videos of the exhibit’s artists discussing their dazzling works.

Renwick Gallery WONDER360 is the Smithsonian’s first-ever virtual reality mobile app. It “captures the ‘WONDER’ exhibition as a moment in time and lets you carry the beauty of that experience around in your pocket, anywhere in the world,” said Sara Snyder of the Renwick Gallery, in a release. “It represents a whole new way of sharing art with the public.”

After the gallery’s two-year renovation, WONDER debuted in November and attracted more than 730,000 visitors who stretched up the block, seemingly making the White House a secondary tourist attraction. “I’ve never seen a line before at the Renwick,” Nicholas R. Bell of the gallery told DCist last year. “The response has been beyond our wildest dreams.”

The exhibit featured nine contemporary artists, including a pink room covered in 5,000 insects, a room-sized tree comprised of 500,000 individual blocks of wood, and a towering, sinuous rainbow made of 6 miles of embroidery thread.

The app uses gyroscopic sensors, so viewers are encouraged to find a place where they can move and rotate safely such as a swivel chair. In addition, the 3D feature can only be experienced when using a tool like Google Cardboard.