The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum created a new virtual reality application, which is called VR Hangar.VR Hangar contains three virtual reality tours that feature landmark moments in aviation history. Specifically, these three tours are the Wright Brothers’ first...
The tech giant Tencent is dipping its toes into the rich pool of Chinese culture in its latest project to digitize the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site along the ancient Silk Road.
ViMM - Working Group 3.2 collected various kinds of Citizen Science projects that might help improve the documentation of virtual cultural heritage in general and virtual exhibitions in specific. The collection and discussion of such projects is continuing. So far the...
A modern-day version of King Henry VIII?Photo courtesy of Twitter The Google Arts & Culture app released a new feature that matches your selfie with your art doppelgänger. You just take a selfie and the app will instantly match you with five people in paintings you...
European R&D project to develop the next generation of immersive media and tools; Immersify – Innovative technologies for Virtual Reality
ARS ELECTRONICAImmersify - Innovative technologies for Virtual Reality(Linz, January 18, 2018)European R&D project to develop the next generation of immersive media and toolsPhoto showing Human Bodies - the Universe Within, a 3-D visualisation of the human body at the...
Second call for proposals / Workshop at the conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 7 March 2018 at the University of Helsinki. This workshop seeks to expand critical perspectives on metadata in relation to public cultural heritage image collections...
Today, an increasing number of cultural institutions across the globe are finding new ways to digitally attract and educate audiences.
CES 2018 showed us the way forward for AR and VR this year
As virtual reality technology continues to grow and develop, becoming increasingly accessible to consumers, its convergence with music is creating a number of exciting opportunities in the industry.
Just because you’re unable to make it to South Korea next month doesn’t mean you can’t make your 2018 Winter Olympic dreams a reality — that is, a virtual reality.
As technology changes, new entertainment platforms are born. When pong, widely recognized as the first true “video game,” was released no one predicted that companies would be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on video game based advertising less than 3 decades later.
The archaeological wonders of the world offer a rich window into the past. But many are crumbling, weed-laden and victim to vandalism and conflict.
It’s no secret that the internet is changing the way we travel. So much so that international online travel platforms are racing to meet the demands of tomorrow’s travelers as they search for their next destination. Providing reliable information has always been key,...
Open Digital Library for Traditional Games and Sports is a project for the documentation and preservation of this joyful aspect of intangible culture in the digital era. Launched by UNESCO and Tencent, it is a unique oportunity for open-access contact with cultures of the world.
Become a mystery-solving detective and find hidden artifacts and lost treasures to create your own mystery museum!
Historical maps are one of the most valuable sources of the documents. It is very difficult to handle them due to the large size or consisting of many sections. For their digitization a special large format scanner with maximum width of 110 cm is required, which has a...
Mapire enables the user to navigate historical maps of the Habsburg empire using state-of-the art technologies including Google Maps, Google Earth and OpenStreetMap. The main goal is to create an international collaboration to make this content available to the world...
Many historic artifacts are on display in online exhibit.
In the modern age of selfie sticks, photo-sharing obsessions and social media addictions, one museum is looking to embrace them all.
Carnuntum startet am 18. März 2018 in die neue Saison und zelebriert die Eröffnung mit einer technologischen Neuerung: Die Römerstadt bekommt eine eigene Carnuntum App.
The future for the world with all these possibilities, but children can even create their own ideas of how they want to use technology.
The Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany has launched a digital platform to document millions of books and manuscripts from the Arab and Islamic world, Al-Jazeera reported today.
The ViMM Definition of a Virtual Museum A museum is defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) as a ‘non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates...
Digital Educational Netowkr for Cultural Projects’ Implementation and Direction: An Erasmus+ project on sustainable cultural and heritage management.
3D model of the city of Rotterdam after the bombing raid 14 May 1940
Female anthropomorphic statuette discovered at Ştefănesti-Stânca Doamnei, Botoşani County, Romania, in 1974. Cucuteni Culture, phase B. Registered at the Botoşani County Museum. The statuette is preserved almost entirely, having the sole and the body. The head is...
From Life exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is exploring virtual reality as a new art form.
Zabludowicz Collection’s project 360—dedicated to VR, film and video—opens next year
Good site, good books:https://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=augmented+reality&search=Find+book
The Croatian Maritime Museum in Split has launched a project on the history of emigration from Dalmatia that will include the creation of a virtual museum.
ArtPassport is a free app, developed by GalleriesNow and brings users the best art exhibitions from the world’s leading galleries and museums in 360 degrees.
An article out today in Institute’s magazine, “The Ergonomist” on Mayflower 400 efforts, describing the links between our VR and AR work and the highly important disciplines of Human Factors and Human Centred Design.
Museum education is continuing to evolve as a museum field after many years of creating programs for schools and the public. While I have over seven years’ experience in the field so far, I have seen many changes to advance the field and make an impact on the community around us.
Lost Roman roads and hidden archaeological remains are likely to be uncovered in a new project to map the entire English landscape using state-of-the-art lasers.
Medieval Civilization and Culture
Treasures of the National and University Library of Slovenia
A living history museum has been captured on Google Street View – allowing people to virtually travel back in time from their own home.
The 360-degree images of Beamish open air museum in County Durham show life in the 1820s, 1900s and 1940s.
The University of Birmingham are developing 'Heritage Virtual Reality' to allow users to bring the past back to life.Professor Bob Stone told 5 live: "We think that Virtual Heritage is one of the untapped areas for the future of VR.""We can use this [VR] as a focus...
Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from.
The ‘Delhi Declaration on Heritage and Democracy’ was adopted at the closing session of the ICOMOS 19th General Assembly in New Delhi, India, on 15th December 2017, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium-Auditorium in New Delhi, India. The Delhi Declaration emphasized the understanding that people’s perspective is central to heritage, and the General Assembly declared that ethical principles have to be developed for heritage.
Archäologen haben das Grab Jesu restauriert und dabei genau untersucht. Fazit: Das Baumaterial stammt aus der Römerzeit.
Im Netz zu sein, in Verbindung zu stehen – das verändert die Art wie wir leben, arbeiten und spielen.
Make your own VR museum with the DigiArt Story Telling Engine
Mikrochips im Kopf, Roboterbauteile im Körper, neue Organe per 3D-Drucker und Sex-Roboter als Partner. Harald Lesch zeigt, wo die Chancen und Risiken der rasanten Technologieentwicklung zur Optimierung des Menschen liegen.
As I reflect on 2017 through the lens of the ExhibiTricks blog, three broad categories stand out: Worldwide Workshops (and the International Museum Community), Making Museums Better(especially in terms of museum workers’ pay), and Creative Inspiration (drawing on work from outside the museum field).
Traditionelle Tänze, Musik und das Brauchtum der Völker – wie kann dieses Kulturerbe der Menschheit erhalten werden, während die Zeit voranschreitet?
A 3D scanning technique being tested at the British Museum could pave the way for virtual museum displays.
(CNN)The clock is ticking on a $10 million reward for some missing artwork — including Rembrandts, a Vermeer and sketches by Degas.
Thanks to a collaboration between online art platform Artsy and Pace Galleries Amsterdam design firm Studio Drift, the Concrete Storm uses the Microsoft HoloLens headsets to digitally project a catalog of virtual art via an immersive mixed reality experience.Visitors...
On Tuesday, the Library of Congress announced it’s going to stop archiving all tweets. Instead, it will only record a selection of them.
Mapire enables the user to navigate historical maps of the Habsburg empire using state-of-the art technologies including Google Maps, Google Earth and OpenStreetMap. The main goal is to create an international collaboration to make this content available to the world in a common interface using latest GIS features.
FX-Guide looks at the State of the Art in X-Realities In 2017 Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit releases put markerless tracking into handheld mobile devices. Microsoft’s Mixed Reality (formerly Windows Holographic) was released as a standard component of Windows 10....
Rarely seen works of art and archaeological remains are among the historical treasures being revealed online for the first time.
Nine years ago I met Mike Gogan when he was helping to create a virtual reality version of Anne Hathaway’s cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon. The idea was to allow less mobile visitors to “visit” the interior of this important piece of English history even if it isn’t possible for them to climb the narrow stairs to get to the first floor.
Boulevard Arts, Inc., an immersive art and culture platform, collaborated with the Case Western Reserve University, on developing an application for HoloLens, that enables virtual visits to London's Courtauld Gallery and the British Museum.People who already have a...
An exhibition called “The seeing glass” is available at the Delaware Art Museum up to the 14th of January. With the help of virtual reality, a Victorian painting called “La Bella Mano” is transformed into a three-dimensional waking dream with lavish décor and decaying...
Through Jan. 14 at Science Museum Oklahoma, guests with a smartphone or tablet in hand can view different exhibits through augmented reality. This experience is the work of ReLiveIt, an Oklahoma City-based startup that has developed an application designed to enhance...
A tiny Indonesian island, previously unexplored by archaeologists, has been found to be unusually rich in ancient cave paintings following a study by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU).
This article applies Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) to the field of Cultural Heritage (CH), aiming to analyse patrimonial valuation through Digital Representations (DR). It seeks to briefly introduce the importance of DR through the concepts of the individual’s spatial cognition (mental) and physical (external) perceptions.
ALiVE is a platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary undertakings at CityU, providing research opportunities to faculty and students, and contexts for project-based learning.
Miraikan is a place where we can understand the things happening in our world today from a scientific point of view, and have discussions while considering the future that awaits us.
The rapid developments in the fields of photogrammetry, laser scanning, computer vision and robotics provide highly accurate 3D data. 3D models that can be created from such types of data are extremely effective and intuitive for present-day users who have stringent requirements and high expectations.
For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off-limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far-flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital. Yet U.S. and Afghan researchers are now finding thousands of never-before-cataloged ancient sites in the country, which for more than a millennium served as a crucial crossroads linking East and West.
The Facebook Exhibit—a wall display with integrated elements of social media—was the first attempt at enhancing the viewers’ experience and breaking away from the traditional archival exhibit.
Explore an Ecstasy of Beauty – Finnish Artists Travelling Beyond Europe 1882-1926 in our new online exhibition featuring artworks from the Finnish National Gallery.
Germany has been a long time supporter of Europeana both by contributing funds and also contributing content through its national aggregator. Recently Berlin saw the award ceremony of Germany’s cultural data hackathon ‘Coding da Vinci’.
Successful in the 2016 Generic Services call, the BYZART project aims to digitise, catalogue and make available rich archive collections about Byzantine cultural heritage in Europeana
Europeana recently launched the Europeana Migration Collection to create a resource that helps us see that we are all products of multiple cultural influences from the food we eat, to the music we listen to and the art we see.
VIMM TA6 WORKING GROUPS PHYSICAL MEETING 15/12/2017 AT MIRALab – University of Geneva – successful meeting
Science Friday’s beautiful “File Not Found” series looks at the thorny questions of digital preservation: finding surviving copies of data, preserving the media it is recorded upon, finding working equipment to read that media, finding working software to decode the information once it’s read, clearing the rights to archive it, and maintaining safe, long term archives — all while being mindful of privacy and other equities.
Tango was Google’s first big augmented reality push, and it solved the problem of position tracking with lots and lots of extra hardware.
18 immersive VR experiences are available to the public at the National Museumof Singapore. The innovation in the adaption of virtual reality in this museum has been the logical next step in its digital adventures. Also, this innovation has hadsome effect, which is,...
In November the Europeana Foundation Governing Board re-elected Martijn Pronk (expert in digital publishing and museums), Lora Aroyo (expert in semantic web) and Lorna Hughes (expert in research) for a second term.
The Government’s vision and strategy for Heritage and the historic environment.
“Digital, virtual and analogue, here at the museum – coming here to engage with the objects themselves – do not exclude each other, they help each other,” said British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer.
Museum International is an academic journal that promotes the exchange of information about museums and cultural heritage on an international level. The journal aims to foster knowledge-sharing through interdisciplinary research and best practices for the protection...
3D digital model of 1850 Geneva, perfectly matched to the official cadastre and with textures, vegetation and landscapes of that era.
On 6 December, 200 members of the Europeana Network Association gathered in Milan on the occasion of the AGM 2017, dedicated to the impact culture has on society. We would like to thank all of you who came and made this event a real success.
The CyArk 500 Challenge has the ambitious goal to digitally preserve 500 cultural heritage sites within the next five years.
An interesting collection of virtual archaeology projects is presented at a research website of the St. Andrews University. Make sure to check them out (tool kit and revolver can remain in your drawer).
Virtual Reality (VR) has taken a prominent place over the past few years redefining the way we are experiencing the things that we see. Technological innovations continue to impact the digital marketing sphere, and one of the most exciting tools to enter the landscape is virtual reality. Although the use of VR in digital marketing hasn’t gone mainstream yet, some brands are experimenting with this technology to create engaging and more personalised experiences for their customers.
The project BeWeB-3D deals with specific paper-made objects:
movable or pop-up books. It aims at designing a computer-made model
of 19th century paper-engineered objects, which facilitates interaction.
Contrary to ordinary books these objects contain what you could call
an interface.
In partnership with Google, the Railways has undertaken an elaborate crowd-sourcing exercise to create a digital repository of its rich heritage and provide passengers a free virtual tour.
The first implementation of Google's ARCore has been launched on the Pixel 2 device and it is called AR stickers. These sticker packs include characters from Star Wars, Stranger Things, and several of the company’s own creations. AR stickers can be accessed directly...
Europeana (europeana.eu) is Europe’s digital platform for cultural heritage.
The European Commission and the European Parliament are joining the EuroMed2018 conference in Cyprus in 2018 #EYCH2018 .
Since the Lamy report was published in July this year, much is being said and discussed on the potential mission orientation in FP9. This new direction of EU R&I policy is an attractive logical new step from the challenge driven approach in H2020.
Historically, citizens have turned to museums to provide stewardship over our shared public heritage and provide expert interpretations and opinions on artifacts, but today the traditional institutional authority is changing.
The Online Catalogue of the museum presents the more than 1,000 objects on permanent exhibition through color images and detailed descriptions.
International stakeholder survey on demands in the field of digital cultural heritage
The movie Loving Vincent, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman / 2017 / 94 min / English /
The world’s first fully oil painted feature film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story.
AXIELL ALM | DIGITISING COLLECTIONS REPORT 2017 When it comes to managing a collection, such as a museum, archive or gallery, ensuring the preservation of the records, objects and data is critical. Today’s technology-driven, internet-enabled world has opened up new...
I stumbled over an interesting article about crowdsourcing which defines the term relevant to museums and gives some insight to case studies on this theme. The article can be viewed on the "Museums and the web" site and has some interesting feedbacks and ideas on the...
Digital art, or new media art, is situated at the intersection of art, technology and science. Although one might think that digital art is a relatively new phenomena, Andy Warhole already created digital art using a Commodore Amiga back in 1985.
What if you could play with landmarks instead of just touring them? Nexto is turning audio guides into games to make sightseeing more interactive. Launching today as part of TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin‘s Battlefield competition, Nexto is partnering with tourist destinations to help them attract more visitors and earn more money to fund culture.
Découverte en 1991, cette caverne immergée dans les calanques de Marseille abrite de superbes peintures préhistoriques. Les relevés numériques pourront être mis à disposition des scientifiques et du grand public.
A group of young people came to Crewe Library to celebrate the completion of a project to build ‘Crewecraft’.
When building a virtual museum one can rely heavily on already existing open source web libraries most of which were created for developing simulations and video games for the browser. They are well documented projects with an active developer base, building upon them...
Basquiat: Boom For Real – A 360 Exhibition Tour
The objective of Digitizing Early Farming Cultures (DEFC) is the standardization and integration of archaeological research data from the Neolithic and Copper Age (7000 – 3000 BC) in Greece and Western Anatolia. Greece and Western Anatolia are two neighbouring and...
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