In July 2017, the British Museum in London published a 3D model of the famed Rosetta Stone on Sketchfab. From there it was picked up by a number of sites claiming it to be “first 3D scan of the …
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Tech-Art 4.0 in Germany
By Alexander Lohberg and Peter E. Petersen of 3D Druckzentrum Ruhr. This is an article in our new series looking at how 3D printing is used around the world and reporting on ways to get involved in 3D…
Natural History Museum’s Hope the Whale has 3D printing in its bones
Hope, the skeleton of a 20 year old blue whale, has replaced “Dippy” the diplodocus at the grand entrance of London’s Natural History Museum (NHM). To prepare Hope for her pride of p…
Marking Pet Remembrance Day with 3D Printing
Today, 5th July, is Pet Remembrance Day. People across the UK will remember companion animals that have died. Using the twitter hashtag #PetRemembranceDay many will share photos and fond memories of t…
Blurring reality as artist’s 3D model tricks national identity card issuer
3D modeling software has successfully been used to convince an issuer of national identity cards that the digital model is a photographic representation of a real person. Raphaël Fabre is an artist an…
Interview with Museum in a Box – putting collections into people’s hands with the help of 3D printing
Museum in a Box is an organization established by George Oates, a founding designer at Flickr, and inventor of Flickr Commons. The product created by the team is a Raspberry-Pi powered audio box, with…
3D prints from Zaha Hadid Architects and Neri Oxman at Milan Design Week
2017’s Salone del Mobile Milan Design Week from April 4-9 is exhibiting some of the most cutting edge uses for sculptural 3D printing. The eponymous architecture firm of the late Zaha Hadid is e…
Why 3D print copies of art and sculpture? Interview with Scan the World
Scan the World is a project founded by Jonathan Beck in 2014. In his own words, Jonathan explains it as “a community built initiative archiving objects of cultural significance from across the g…
Going digital: Interview with the director of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art
When on the road with Scan the World, 3D Printing Industry got an exclusive insight into how and why museums and galleries are choosing to digitize their art collections. In this interview with Leisa …
Inside private art collections with Scan the World
3D Printing Industry are on the road with 3D scanning cultural heritage project Scan the World as they head to the south of France. In this article we take a peek inside the private collection of hist…