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    ScannerBox: a free resource for 3D scanning
    Title:
    Mixed Reality Storytelling – Object 653 from Factory at the Tate
    Creator:
    Dimitrios Darzentas
    Date:
    28/09/2017
    News Created: 24 March 2020

    ScannerBox: a free resource for 3D scanning

    The advent of 3D technology is bringing new opportunities for the cultural heritage sector, offering innovative ways to provide access to heritage for education, tourism, research and enjoyment. In this post we explore the 3D ScannerBox, which aims to provide a free resource to enable anyone to employ 3D scanning in their organisation.

    The GIFT project
    Title:
    GIFT logo
    Project 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2019

    The GIFT project

    GIFT was a European project funded under the Horizon2020 research and innovation programme that brought together museum professionals,  world-renowned artists, designers, and researchers to help museums create hybrid experiences: experiences that combine the physical and digital to create personal encounters with cultural heritage. 

    The GIFT Box: Helping museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors
    Title:
    GIFT app test at Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton
    Creator:
    Charlie Johnson
    Date:
    2018
    Country:
    England
    News Created: 6 November 2019 Nicholas Jarrett

    The GIFT Box: Helping museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors

    The team behind the GIFT project are proud to launch the GIFT Box, a set of free, open-source tools and ways of working to help museums offer richer digital experiences for their visitors. The GIFT Box provides resources to help you design, plan and implement enhanced visitor experiences, and this post takes a look at some of the creative ways it can be used.

    How we’re using smart tech to create richer cultural experiences
    Title:
    The handles of a machine are being turned by small people as a figure in the machine is flattened and stretched.
    Creator:
    Coloured etching by G.A. Sasso after himself.
    Institution:
    Wellcome Collection
    Country:
    United Kingdom
    News Created: 11 October 2019 Beth Daley

    How we’re using smart tech to create richer cultural experiences

    Today, we look at what Europeana is doing to take advantage of the advances in digital technology, particularly ‘smart’ technology, that can bring our cultural heritage to life in exciting ways. 

    The GIFT Project: Give and take in the museum experience
    Title:
    Strand
    Creator:
    Edvard Munch
    Date:
    1898
    Institution:
    Museum Stavanger AS
    Country:
    Norway
    News Created: 19 August 2019 Nicholas Jarrett

    The GIFT Project: Give and take in the museum experience

    In our final article of our GIFT series we interview one of the GIFT consortium project leads, Bogdan Spanjevic. As General Manager of NextGame, a Belgrade-based company specialising in playful projects and digital advertising, Bogdan talks with us about how appropriation models have been tested, adapted and played with as part of GIFT, and how the museum has been brought to cinema audiences via their #OneMinuteMuseum initiative.

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