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AR – the Way to Go When Art is Lost in a Fire?

The inferno that recently destroyed over 90% of Brazil’s National Museum’s collection has once again shown how ephemeral physical objects are. In order to preserve cultural heritage museums generate digital archives, but what about exhibiting lost art? Is augmented...

By Lisa Schlichting-G.E. on 09/23/18 Comments Off

Terahertz Femtophotography: Bringing you the ancient world’s latest news

Earlier this week, reports started trickling through the web about a camera developed by the Camera Culture Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sure, a camera coming out of a MIT lab sounds interesting, but how can it...

By Harry Sullivan on 09/22/16 Comments Off

Google: Art Project

The ‘Googlised’ Indsutries We live in the age of information, in the digital age, maybe we can say we live in the age of Google if we think of the term ‘googlisation’, on the other hand this is not...

By Blanka Szamos on 11/07/14 Comments Off

[Thesis] Google Art

A new view on museum and virtual museum traditions Although this MA thesis was submitted last semester, it remains relevant for how we peruse our cultural heritage today. I would like to share the abstract with you. Abstract...

By Fenneke Mink on 04/15/14 Comments Off

Foto zoekt familie: Digital Dutch East Indies

“Is dit jouw oma?” was the question that numerous shoppers were confronted with, when strolling down the aisles of Dutch supermarkets in search of Indonesian chips called emping in the early months of 2013. The question...

By Tessa de Keijser on 09/09/13 3

The State of Digitisation

Picture “Basement Books” is taken by Vaguery and published under a CC-BY license The last decade, a tremendous effort has been made to make more cultural heritage data, both metadata as well as the actual content, digitally available for...

By Joris Pekel on 08/22/12 Comments Off