UNESCO World Heritage List criteria 1/16 UNESCO World Heritage Sites 2020/2021: UNESCO has announced some of the new additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China, pictured here, is one of the...
Travelling for pleasure: a brief history of tourism
Tracing the development of tourism from the 17th century to the present-day. Published June 16, 2020 by Carmen Périz Rodríguez (opens in new window)(Hispana / Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports) People have always had a need to travel, be it to explore and...
Mapping the Secrets of Earth’s Seabed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPx33yNAWCA Another example of #DigitalTransformation #3D #Digitisation #Mapping the #Seabed -greatest part of the world and #Preserve part of your #Identity https://youtube.com/watch?v=fPx33yNAWCA… #EU_STUDY_3D_CH #CulturalHeritage...
US and Plymouth tech teams create VR headset with sights, sounds and smells of 1620
Who wouldn’t want to travel back in time 400 years and experience the sights and sounds of Elizabethan Plymouth? Everyone, right? But the smells? Well, you might need a strong stomach but now you can do just that thanks to a collaboration between British and American...
Mapping the Secrets of Earth’s Seabed
We know less about the planet's seabed than we do about the surface of the Moon or Mars. By the end of the decade, scientists are hoping to create a detailed map of these unexplored, submerged territories. They’ve already uncovered some spectacular features. #Oceans...
#Design via hand gesture with #AugmentedReality!
Ancient Greece Created Five of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Along with the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, they rank as the most stupendous achievements ever created in...
Creative Europe: Over €2 billion to support the recovery, resilience and diversity of cultural and creative sectors
At a time when museums, cinemas, theatres, all start to reopen, we reiterate our support for the arts. €2.4 billion in EU funding will help our cultural and creative sectors bounce back from the crisis – more competitive, inclusive & digital than before!...
World Heritage Cities Programme Urban Notebooks
Newsletter May 2021 Erbil Citadel (Iraq); Author: WCA Productions © Golden Eagle Global Check out the May issue of @UNESCO #WorldHeritage Cities Programme’s Urban Notebooks! Learn about the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Heritage Urban Landscape Recommendation...
New Zealand-based Augmented Reality app homeAR raises $750,000 and launches v2.0 of its home viewing platform
In April 7, 2021 – homeAR, a provider of a virtual home viewing and walkthrough software platform, has recently announced that it has been able to raise NZD $750,000 of a mix of international and local private equity in order to fund product development, as well as...
Turn video into 3D animations
Turn videos into 3D animation with AI motion capture. Full-body motion from any video, no suits or hardware. Open up the possibilities - Sign up for a free account with monthly recurring minutes & unlimited downloads. #animation #gamedev #indiedev #vr #ar ...
Ancient Art – Digital Maps of the Ancient World
Ancient art generally refers to those ‘advanced’ civilizations, who had written language, and between c. 5000 BC – 300 AD, thrived in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Mexico, Rome, Japan, China, and India. Art played an important role in these growing societies by...
Egypt mummies pass through Cairo in ancient rulers’ parade
Egyptians have been witnessing a historic procession of their country's ancient rulers through the capital, Cairo. The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum...
Contest on the logo development for the international project Erasmus+ ARTEST
International Erasmus+ project “ARTEST: Enhancing education programmes in Arts and Humanities via European STEM methods and tools” invites students, teaching staff and employees of the consortium* to participate in the contest on the project’s logo development. ...
Gender gaps & inequality illustrated by GIFs
Animating inequality between men and women in all areas of society. Published March 28, 2021 by Aleksandra Strzelichowska (Europeana Foundation) Women are generally paid less than men: the gender pay gap is this difference in pay, but also the gender gap speaks to...
Interregional Partnership “Virtual and Smart Cultural Tourism” – Stakeholder Survey
Virtual and Smart Cultural Tourism Consultation Process The aim of this survey is to gather stakeholder input for designing and implementation interregional structures and support mechanisms for successful innovations, scale-ups and commercialization of business cases...
Take a look at French artist JR’s new installation on the facade of Strozzi Palace in Florence, Italy
Take a look at French artist JR's new installation on the facade of Strozzi Palace in Florence, Italy https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1373273119486513152
Survey on use and reuse in Digital Cultural Heritage
This questionnaire takes place in the framework of the EU H2020 ERA Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage MNEMOSYNE, coordinated by the Digital Heritage Research Lab, at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). The project is centred on holistic documentation of the...
CAA2021 | DIGITAL CROSSROADS | 14-18 JUNE
CAA2021, to be held 14-18 June, is going digital. We are sad that we won’t be able to be together in-person in sunny and lovely Cyprus, but based on the continuing challenges posed by the global Covid pandemic, a virtual meeting is the most responsible way for our...
2021 EUA Annual Conference | 22 – 23 APR 2021 | ONLINE
Universities 2030: From vision to reality The 2021 EUA Annual Conference “Universities 2030: From vision to reality” will take place online on 22-23 April. Against the backdrop of the ongoing climate crisis, fundamental technological advances, labour market changes...
Digital Past 2021
Organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Digital Past is an annual two-day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretation and dissemination of the heritage of Wales,...
Youth engagement in UNESCO designated sites. Empowering youth towards sustainable development
Youth engagement in UNESCO designated sites is a workshop, in on-line modality, dedicated to the topic of youth engagement in UNESCO designated sites. The workshop will take place from 1-3 March 2021. The workshop is programmed based on the UNESCO objectives of...
Europeana Common Culture: successes towards a harmonised and coordinated aggregation ecosystem
The Europeana Common Culture (ECC) project has contributed significantly to the development of a well-functioning and sustainable aggregation infrastructure in Europe, as well as helped to improve data quality and encouraged engagement with cultural heritage through...
e-Archiving in Action Workshop – January 27, 2021 @ 11:20 am – 11:50 pm CET
January 27, 2021 @ 11:20 am – 11:50 pm CET eArchiving in action is a three-day event hosted by the CEF eArchiving Building Block; three days of presentations, interviews, use cases and panel discussions will celebrate how eArchiving is helping data producers, archives...
Survey on quality in digitisation of tangible cultural heritage
The unique study on 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage survey has been completed, with results from 420 experts from 63 countries worldwide. Below there are some previews about distribution, expertise and affiliations. More results soon! Background The...
Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budgets and Disciplines
The integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon 2020 is an important feature of the programme. To monitor the development of this cross-cutting issue is an EU commitment. Various dimensions are examined, such as the budget going to SSH partners...
Changing the language – From Digital to Smart City Tourism
SMART CITY TOURISM: DEMOCRATIZING MONUMENT STORIES What is smart tourism? Let us first experience a facet of smart tourism ourselves. Pull out your smart phone, scan this QR code, and let your phone play the Grand Taj Mahal Walking Tour. The Google map shows the Taj...
This Animation of How Bridges Were Constructed in 14th Century Prague is Amazing
In this informative animation we learn how the iconic Charles Bridge was constructed in 1357. The historic bridge crosses the Vltava (Moldau) river in Prague, Czech Republic and is 516 metres (1,693 ft) long and nearly 10 metres (33 ft) wide. It was built as a bow...
Webinar: Crowdsourcing of Digital Cultural Heritage
Tue, 15 December 2020 | 14:00 – 15:00 EET The webinar will cover the state of the art in Digital Cultural Heritage crowdsourcing. The workshop will introduce the results of a current study of DCH crowdsourcing carried out by museums and other cultural institutions...
EU study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage
This is a kind reminder to complete this expert survey questionnaire https://lnkd.in/d7KgXE8 in the framework of the EU study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage, (VIGIE 2020/654) which is the first initiative of this kind from the EU and it is...
CIDOC 2020 MNEMOSYNE WORKSHOP
Why culture is so important in the time of coronavirus
As Saudi Arabia prepares to host the G20 summit, the kingdom's culture minister argues that culture should be part of the agenda Coronavirus (Covid-19) has shone a spotlight on the need for policymakers to bring the cultural economy—a thriving sector of the...
Understanding the impact of digital cultural heritage in digital transformation – join our webinar series
We are excited to launch an upcoming series of webinars to support professionals in using the Europeana Impact playbook, supporting you to better plan, measure and understand the impact that digital cultural heritage creates. “We believe that we are all better off if...
8th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2020)
Invitation to contribute to the EuroMed 2020 Conference Date: 2. – 5 November 2020 Venue: Online Deadline for submission of papers: 15 September 2020 Conference registration opens on: 16 October 2020 The 8th biannual European-Mediterranean Conference on Digital...
The promise of universal augmented reality
The future of augmented reality is being built today. Computing is entering the physical world. Steve Jobs once said technology alone is not enough, “ultimately it comes down to taste, it’s a matter of trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done...
OMSE uses augmented reality to create moving 3D typography for Printworks
London design agency OMSE has created an augmented reality campaign for cultural venue Printworks London that transforms static typography into immersive three-dimensional animations. The new creative campaign was developed by OMSE to promote the launch of Printworks'...
Platforms on the Future of Cultural Heritage: A problem solving approach
Read the Report on the Prague Platform on ‘Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age’ here. European Expert Network on Culture and Audiovisual (EENCA)
The Grand Museum VR on STEAM
From the Steam site: This virtual museum environment contains 82 models of real world ancient works of art, originating from many ancient cultures of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa. Actual ancient relics that are found on display at the great museums around the...
USA Today Enhances Notre Dame Fire Coverage with Augmented Reality Experience
Excerpt from USA Today Just days later, on Wednesday, the augmented reality team at USA Today managed to add a related interactive 3D experience to its app, displaying the famous structure as it appeared before the conflagration. The news outlet published the...
NVidia book release on realtime raytracing : Ray Tracing Gems
This book is a collection of articles focused on ray tracing techniques for serious practitioners. Like other "gems" books, it focuses on subjects commonly considered too advanced for introductory texts, yet rarely addressed by research papers. The electronic version...
VIMM has been honoured as a Success Story
The Virtual Multimodal Museum Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme has been honored by selecting it to be a success story representing within the topic of " Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage" at the...
Virtual Dive Galleries at National Maritime Sanctuary
Immerse yourself in the ocean and your national marine sanctuaries without getting wet! These virtual reality voyages use 360-degree images to highlight the amazing habitats, animals, and cultural resources you can find in each national marine sanctuary.
Exhibit explores Hudson County history through postcards
By Lauren Wanko At the Hoboken Historical Museum, postcards illustrate Hudson County’s history. “This is one of our first forays into expanding our mission to include all of Hudson County,” said Robert Foster, executive director of the Hoboken Historical...
Blue Mountains museum using virtual reality to tell local history
By Erika Engel Two new films premiering next month will give viewers a virtual reality experience at two historic sites in Craigleith. There’s a new, fully-submerged and immersive way to tour the wreck of the Mary Ward at the bottom of Georgian Bay without getting...
Notre Dame is still alive!
The monuments, such as Parthenon, or Notre Dame, are preserved as far as we preserve the information, the knowledge, the feeling, and the cultural bond of the community of citizens who created them. Digital technologies, documentation, digitization, narration, conceptualisation is a key element in this purpose.
Oculus Introduces Next Generation Of VR Avatars With ‘Expressive Avatars’ Update
More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets.
Worlds Largest Earth Day Event Will Use VR & AR To Empower People
Immersive storytelling will have you looking at environmental issues in an impactful new way. 2019 will be an important year for Earth Day. Climate change, ocean pollution, and animal extinction are rising at a rapid pace. Planet Earth is in big trouble, and it needs...
VR Film Places Audience Into A Shared Immersive Experience
An experimental new VR film experience entitled CAVE will debut later this month during the Tribeca Film Festival, immersing an entire audience into a captivating virtual experience.
Virtual reality technology coming soon to Qatar Museums exhibitions
Qatar daily The Peninsula reported that following the successful opening of the innovative National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), Qatar Museums (QM) is planning to incorporate more technology in its upcoming exhibitions to make them more interactive, said an...
Augmented Reality in Publishing: Introduce an interactive way to Enhance the Level of Engagement of Readers
Augmented Reality technology is the best way to improve the tactics in receiving and delivering of information. Augmented Reality generates new revenue streams or improves tedious solutions in the context of the Media and Publishing. This technology addresses...
360˚Virtual Tours: New Marketing Tool to Boost Your Business
360˚ Virtual Tour offers the potential that can engage visitors better. This has become a better option for users in making decisions about business, travel, and entertainment.
EMPURIES – NEAPOLIS Costa Brava, Virtual visit of Roman House
Empuries, Neapolis, Costa Brava, Grecoroman city with story telling and 3D reconstruction of Roman Home, virtual semi immersive experience in the archaeological site, within an ancient underground space.
The fight for control over virtual fossils
Palaeontologists have been urged to share 3D scans of fossils online, but a Nature analysis finds that few researchers do so.A decade ago, palaeontologist Jack Tseng set out on a treasure hunt. Not the typical boots and pick-axe affair you might imagine, but one that...
The 7 key benefits of using Virtual Reality
VR is having an impact across many sectors, this article unpacks these and gives you 7 key used of VR
Dealing With Abuse Inside Virtual Reality
Image Source: Tumisu on Pixabay Virtual Reality is a powerful and intimate technology. Because of this, considerations must be made by developers to mitigate any abuse or bullying inside VR platforms. In a VR world, the experience of embodying your avatar is much more...
Offenders become the victim in virtual reality
Impact of changing perspective in domestic violence through VR The role of empathy and perspective-taking in preventing aggressive behaviors has been highlighted in several theoretical models. In this study, we used immersive virtual reality to induce a full body...
Best Mobile App Development Tools For Latest Industry
The mobile app industry is brewing at a speed faster than ever before. As a result, every business is coming up with its own customized app to retain mobile customers. Irrespective of the size and type, apps are running efficiently with suitable performance, according to the users need.
VR-Glasses against short-sightedness for the future
Image credits: © European Union/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie (CC BY-ND 2.0) Not my future? If egocentric people care little about the long-term consequences of global warming, it's because their brains don't represent the distant future, according to the results of an...
THE 10 BEST AUGMENTED REALITY SMARTGLASSES IN 2019
WHAT ARE THE BEST AR SMARTGLASSES? Augmented reality is believed to have the biggest potential for mass consumption. AR has the backing of investment of huge tech giants, who are investing not only in the hardware but also working with developers to create...
Virtual Reality Training – We Create VR Experiences
The use of virtual reality as a training purpose is getting renounced in every sector.
Record label contracts algorithm for the first time
Algorithm Endel 'signed' a major label contract. Is Artificial Intelligence the future of music? The app Endel, developed by a Berlin based team of artists, developers and scientists, creates automatically music that fits our mood, but unlike its human counterparts it...
You Can Now Join Doctors as They Dissect a Corpse in Rembrandt’s Most Famous Painting Through Augmented Reality
By Sarah CasconeAs institutions in the Netherlands ramp up celebrations to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), the Mauritshuis in The Hague has released a new augmented reality app that lets viewers step inside one of the...
Meeting Old Masters, Rowing With Vikings — in Augmented Reality
By Jane L. LevereWalk through the doors of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City these days and it’s possible to travel back more than 100 years.Visitors can walk up to the original front doors no longer easily visible from outside the museum on East 36th...
Zaha Hadid’s “Project Correl” Printed Model was Designed in Virtual Reality by Museum Visitors
By Niall Patrick WalshThe Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group has concluded the design phase of Project Correl, a collaborative experiment to test the potential of virtual reality as a tool for design. The results of the experiment are currently on display in the...
Top 10 AR/VR Development Companies 2019
AR/VR solutions are helpful in terms of customer prospect.Industries from finance & retail to travel & fashion are using these advance technologies in the current market.Thus, AR/VR is helping the businesses to broadcast their brands and services.
VR film offers preview of Amateur Architecture Studio’s Lin’an History Museum
By Lizzie CrookThe Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin'an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's studio, which is yet to open to the public.The Bartlett's virtual reality (VR) film allows viewers to explore the...
RAF Museum recreates Dambusters raid with virtual reality
By John PlummerThe Royal Air Force Museum has used virtual reality technology to enable visitors to experience being on board a Lancaster bomber during the Dambusters raid of 1943.The museum worked with the creative technology company All Seeing Eye to create the...
The Dignity Museum builds empathy between visitors and the homeless
By Adele PetersIn a parking lot southwest of Atlanta, a new museum brings visitors into conversation with the systemic issues of homelessness—a growing concern in the U.S., and one that’s not often understood. “We wanted to create a space where the voices of...
Is it AI or a Circus Automaton? Alter 3 conducted “Scary Beauty“, a German debut performance with the Japanese Philharmonic Düsseldorf and Keiichiro Shibuya (piano)
Image credit: Monika Ritterhaus, tanzhaus nrw Here comes another example of humanoid robotics: Alter 3. Jointly developed by laboratories studying artificial life at Osaka University and the University of Tokyo, Alter is powered by a neural network. Uniquely, the...
Is it AI or a Circus Automaton? Sophia, the world hottest robot at the Meta Marathon in Düsseldorf (Germany)
Image credits: Seer, Emotions © Takayuki Todo Live, love, party, and work with robots from March 15 to March 17, 2019, the META MARATHON 2019 was dedicated to the subject of robotics. Not only could visitors participate in workshops, talks, and performances, they...
New AR VR Standard from the Chronos Group
The Chronos Group known for the release of new Web, Mobile and Desktop 3D Standards has released a new Standard for AR/VR, the Open XR Standard. From the Chronos Website: “OpenXR seeks to simplify AR/VR software development, enabling applications to reach a wider...
ViMM Decision making tool optimization
UPF and 7th reasons optimizing the Decision making tool of ViMM
Experience T-Rex in immersive virtual reality at the american museum of natural history
Everyone knows the mega-predator, tyrannosaurus rex, but do you know how they lived? or that t. rex hatchlings were fluffy, and more like turkeys than the killing machines they grew up to be? or that they had the rare ability to pulverize and digest bones? Opening on...
The BBC Proms brings orchestral music into virtual reality
Image credits: Yuichi Shiraishi - https://flic.kr/p/pEZoi The result is a virtual concert in two parts: an immersive recording of Meredith's composition performed by the BBC Orchestra on the first night of the Proms, and a short, deeply moving first-person experience...
Reaching out for Collaborative VR Experiences
VR as impressive it may be will remain a limited market niche, as long as it is limited to a single human-machine relation. Collaborative and interactive relations between humans sharing the same VR environment is a a requirement that has so far only been solved...
‘Zingoshi Chronicles’ Uses AR To Help Children Build Confidence
AR brings an educational twist to conventional storytelling.
A New Look at a Qing Dynasty Masterpiece
Through VR, sections of Up the River During Qingming are brought to life—from bustling scenes featuring some of the painting’s 4,000 figures, to architectural details including homes and the royal palace.
Use of Virtual Reality Technology to Transform Architectural Design
Weightless Bricks, an interactive, mixed reality experience at Royal Academy of Arts as part of Invisible Landscapes: Imagination (Act III). On view at the Architecture Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, February 2–April 1, 2019
Goncharova and Malevich in Immersive VR
The virtual exhibition, developed by VRTech Group, celebrated Goncharova and Malevich’s enduring legacy, while providing insight into the creation of their greatest works.
12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
While it’s hard to beat the experience of seeing a seminal piece of fine art or important historical artifact with your own two eyes, one could easily spend a lifetime traveling the world in search of all of them. Fortunately, the digital age has made it...
Content is what matters
Image information: The National Museum of Korea offers an application for viewers to have a enjoyable museum viewing Exhibit contents using augmented reality (AR), experiential animation, video, etc. The Korean government has been paying keen attention to the VR...
Augmented and virtual reality help bring a museum in China to life
Museums around the world are celebrating International Museum Day, and in China, museums are seeing a surge in popularity. In 2008, the country started offering free admission at more of its museums, leading to a huge jump in attendance at some facilities.With the...
New Wynwood Mural Uses Augmented Reality to Spark Conversation on Climate Change
By MEG O'CONNORWalk down NW Third Avenue and 25th Street in Wynwood and you'll be greeted by an alligator, a coyote, a manatee, and more than a dozen other examples of Florida's dwindling biodiversity. The colorful wildlife makes up one of the scores of new murals...
New Robot Science Museum will be part-built using robots
By Adam WilliamsFollowing an architecture competition, Turkey's Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) has been selected to create the new Robot Science Museum (RSM) in Seoul, South Korea. Interestingly, the firm says that the building will be part-constructed using...
Team Mobi demos new AR capabilities
By Michel'le DonnellyLast night saw Team Mobi take to the stage and pitch at the NSW Business Chamber Networking Night held at the Westin in Sydney.The event is famous for its high energy ’60 Second Spotlight’ which proves both an efficient way to get business chamber...
An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic Debris
By Allison MeierTamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change.Visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art can now glimpse a dire future when New York is underwater. Up on the sixth floor terrace,...
Bring the Museum to the Classroom with Virtual Reality Field Trips
BY CHARLOTTE COATESMost museums regularly welcome field trips through their doors, but unfortunately not every school is able to visit a museum in person.Could virtual reality offer a way to remove barriers, and allow children in classes at the other side of the...
Conference “ARCHIVING 2019” – DIGITIZATION, PRESERVATION, AND ACCESS – LISBON, Portugal
Since the first meeting, Archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to...
Fraunhofer IGD recruiting full time 3D color imaging research fellow with option for PhD !
Fraunhofer IGD recruits a full time color imaging fellow for three years within ITN-EVOCATION (EU H2020 research and innovation project under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813170 ) with an option to do a PhD at Technische Universität Darmstadt,...
EXIST Business Start-Up VINS – Humboldt University, Berlin
VINS, a business start-up supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, uses the potential of georeferenced data acquisition, 3D modeling and virtual reality to offer its customers innovative solutions. VINS provides industry-specific...
New Standard With Eye Tracking Glasses at 120 Hz
SMI Sets New Standard With Eye Tracking Glasses at 120 Hz SMI’s Eye Tracking Glasses now operate binocular at a native 120 Hz sampling rate across the entire trackable field of view. This allows for low latency synchronization with motion capture, virtual reality and...
Roadshow “Industry meets IT” at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin
Roadshow "Industry meets IT" We cordially invite you to the third stop of our roadshow "Industry meets IT - VR/AR applications for industry" on 26.03.2019. Venue is the CINIQ Center/Smart Data Forum at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. With the focus on Virtual...
Scientific Documentation for Decisions The Reconstruction Argumentation Method
Free online tool for a scientific documentation of decissions made at virtual reconstructions... Contribute your virtual reconstructed work! Read more...
PLUGXR brings a free augmented reality tool
PLUGXR brings in limitless possibilities Having worked on Extended Reality extensively for over 6 years, we knew the challenges and the dilemmas that have to be confronted. PLUGXR is our gift of sweet labor for a technology we have so longed to see being used to its...
First virtual museum of Kazakh women’s history educates and empowers
ASTANA – Kazakh women’s history museums educate and empower women, providing an awareness-raising platform and tools for overcoming discrimination, said Women of Kazakhstan founder Dinara Assanova in an interview with The Astana Times.Collage of Kazakh women. Photo...
Your body is driving a new wave of AR, VR experiences
Artists at Sundance are tapping into your own movements to make immersive experiences feel more natural.
NEMO: Benefits and Disadvantages of the new Copyright Directive for Museums
The user benefits and disadvantages of the new Copyright Directive's effects on nine different issue areas are analysed on the website Communia. Museums and other cultural heritage institutions are deemed to benefit from the new directive when it comes to serving...
NEMO, Calls for Proposals: Horizon 2020 Funding Programme
The application window for Horizon 2020 funding programme will close on 14 March 2019. Two funding strands are of special interest to the museum sector. 1.Collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion Apply by clicking here and find more...
Joint Statement between Europa Nostra and VIMM
On May 1st (labour day) VIMM signed a joint statement with Europa Nostra in Brussels. Highlighting the role of digital technologies in the future of cultural heritage in the context of the Berlin Call to Action. The agreement has been signed by the Secretary General...
Validating the Roadmap and Action Plan for Digital Cultural Heritage – ViMM Final Meeting.
EU Virtual Multimodal Museum Coordination and Support Action project, funded under Horizon 2020, has completed over two years’ work to provide strategic guidance for the European Commission and the wider cultural heritage community, on the future direction of Digital Cultural Heritage.
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