Bringing the Artefacts Back to the People

There is nothing that gives a feel of past lives and places more than the objects that people used. There is a fascination in seeing a 3000 year old axe head that far surpasses any description that can be given about it. Although the national museums have programmes in place to lend out artefacts it is often is not possible for smaller museums to borrow items that they may wish to – there may not be the space or there may be security and storage issues. This exhibition aims to use modern technology to enable people to view 3 dimensional 'images' of the artefacts in various different forms, from computerised 3D laser scans that allow the visitor to rotate the object around to analogue full colour holograms that convince the viewer that the object is actually there behind the glass.

Find out here what you can see in the virtual artefacts exhibition and discover some of the methods used to create these virtual 3D artefacts.

See the dates and locations where you can visit this remarkable exhibition of virtual heritage.

Here you can examine some of the virtual 3D artefacts over the web on your computer at home.