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A new museum in Paris is letting visitors experience art from the inside: guests can walk around inside blown-up versions of famous paintings.

The museum is called Atelier des Lumières, which translates to the Studio of Lights, and it features enlarged depictions of popular artwork that cover walls and even sprawl to the floors and ceilings.

The immersive experience is managed by a company called Culturespaces, and it opens this week.

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A new museum in Paris is allowing visitors to experience art in a new way: by walking around inside of it

The museum's first exhibit features work by Gustav Klimt and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, both artists born in Vienna.

Klimt was a dressmaker and artist during the 19th century who created portraits and landscapes.

Hundertwasser became prominent a number of decades after Klimt did, and his artwork features abstract shapes and bright colors.

A curated soundtrack plays at the museum while visitors explore the artwork.

The museum is called Atelier des Lumières, which translates to the Studio of Lights, and is run by a company called Culturespaces

The two artists whose works are displayed in the new museum are Gustav Klimt and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Both were born in Vienna

President of Culturespaces Bruno Monneir announced the opening of the museum.

He said: 'The role of an art center is to decompartmentalize, and that is why digital technology is so important in twenty-first century exhibitions.

Monneir continued: 'Used for creative purposes, it has become a formidable vector for dissemination and is capable of creating links between eras, add dynamism to artistic practices, amplify emotions and reach the largest possible audience.'

HOW WAS PARIS'S IMMERSIVE MUSEUM DESIGNED?

A new museum in Paris will allow visitors to walk around inside famous paintings.

The paintings are blown up and they sprawl across walls and flooring in the museum.

The museum, the name of which translates to the Studio of Lights, features work by two prominent Austrian artists.

It took 120 video projectors to create the enlarged paintings, and a spatialised sound system has been installed in the museum.

The equipment covers an immense surface area measuring 3,300 square meters. The artwork covers floors, ceilings and walls and stands at ten meters tall.

The experience of walking around 'inside' artwork is accompanied by a curated soundtrack

A statement on the opening of the museum said it comes on the heels of the success of a different establishment, called Carrières de Lumières, also managed by Culturespaces.

Culturespaces emphasized the importance of 'digital exhibitions', and said that the Studio of Lights museum will be home to 'monumental' immersive exhibitions.

The museum is between Nation and Bastille in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris.

The first exhibit of the museum features artwork by two prominent Austrian artists