For more than a decade, museums around the world have been making high-quality 3D scans of important sculptures and ancient artifacts. Some institutions, such as the Smithsonian and the National ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As museums look at 3D scanning as a way to ...

Museums as public educational institutions emerged in 19th-century Europe, evolving from the treasuries of ancient Greek temples and the statue-filled gardens of Roman emperors into spaces designed to ...

Marble relief, corner-stone of Slab XLII from the North Frieze and Slab I of the West Frieze of the Parthenon: procession of horse-drawn chariots (438-432 BCE ...

We are excited to announce that the BCMA has added a major new technology to our digital labs this summer, a pair of 3D scanners from Artec3D. The addition of 3D scanning technologies expands the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many museums around the world remain shuttered. Fortunately, you can still visit some of the best virtually, from the comfort and ...

In conjunction with this weekend’s Art Bytes hackathon at the Walters Art Museum, 3D scanning and modeling company Direct Dimensions will be doing 3D scanning of objects inside the museum. The Owings ...

The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) stated Tuesday that it is planning to file an injunction against the British Museum to require the museum to allow a 3D-scanning project of the infamous ...