Google Arts & Culture Digitizes Artifacts Following Brazil Museum Fire

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-28

Summary:

"Earlier this year, 20 million irreplaceable artifacts housed by Brazil’s National Museumwere lost in a fire. As the museum did not have a platform for viewing most of these works digitally, many people feared that their memory would be lost forever. However, thanks to a two-year-old project spearheaded by Google, a lucky selection of these priceless pieces will live a second life online.

 

In 2016, Google Arts & Culture teamed up with the Museu Nacional in an effort to digitize its collections. Using Street View imagery, the initial goal of this undertaking was “to bring their collection online—so that anyone, anywhere in the world could see and learn about these ancient artifacts.” Since the fire, however, this project has served a much greater purpose.

With a couple clicks of a mouse, users are transported to the museum as it once stood. Featuring high-resolution photographs that offer 360-degree views of both the artifacts and the galleries they once inhabited, this invaluable project lets users wander through the lost museum and wade through some of its destroyed objects. Ancient sculptures, scientific specimens, and Luzia, the oldest fossilized human remains found in the Americas, are just some of the pieces immortalized in this virtual treasure trove...."

Link:

https://mymodernmet.com/google-arts-and-culture-national-museum-brazil/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.digitization oa.glam oa.preservation oa.3d oa.museums oa.vr oa.ar oa.brazil oa.google oa.ch oa.latin_america oa.south

Date tagged:

12/28/2018, 09:32

Date published:

12/28/2018, 04:32