Want to smell the pre-Raphaelites? UK gallery to use scent alongside paintings

A detail from Simeon Solomon’s A Saint of the Eastern Church: exhibition visitors will smell incense and amber wood from the church’s wooden interior. Photograph: Birmingham Museums Trust

Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces in a forthcoming exhibition will offer more than just a feast for the eyes. Curators are planning to stimulate both visual and olfactory senses by pairing scents evoked by the paintings.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, at Birmingham University, will introduce a variety of smells alongside artworks in its exhibition opening on 11 October.