Jonathan Beck

Founder Scan the World Cultural Heritage

My background stems from the relationship between digital technologies and the arts. With this, and through integrating my passions for open heritage data and democratisation of new technologies led me to start Scan the World, now the largest community-built archive of 3D printable objects of cultural significance.

I strive to keep my project's approach and outcomes open, having hosted a plethora of workshops and public talks to serve as an evangelist for OpenGLAM and the maker communities. It is with this community that I have been enabled to disrupt institutions and allow anyone to engage with the arts. Two objects from the Scan the World collection have recently been acquired by The Victoria and Albert Museum for the upcoming reopening of the Cast Courts, exhibited as a prime example of what museums can do with open 3D data.

News posts

Title:: 3D Scanning with an Artec Eva at The Statens Museum for Kunst
Creator:: Statens Museum for Kunst
Date:: 2019
Institution:: Scan the World
Country:: Denmark
Copyright:: CC0

News Created: 15 September 2023 Jonathan Beck

Scanning the world and democratising culture through 3D

Campaigns 3d Twin-it

In support of the Twin It! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign, Jon Beck, manager of Scan the World, tells us how 3D scanning and printing technologies can help in democratising access to culture, reaching more diverse audiences and teaching and learning about cultural heritage.