This video game lets you curate an exhibit at the Birmingham museum

The Birmingham museum has partnered with start-up Smart Pixels to put the works of art from its collection online in the Occupy White Walls game. — Birmingham Museum/AFP

English museums are saying it loud and clear: out of sight, but close to the heart. While the country's cultural institutions remain closed until at least Dec 2, the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has turned to video gaming to make its collections accessible to the public.

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery recently partnered with London-based start-up Smart Pixels to allow art lovers to mount their own exhibitions in the Occupy White Walls game. They will be able to include works from the British museum's collection, including paintings emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement such as The Last England by Ford Madox Brown and Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.