Historical artifacts have been made accessible worldwide thanks to 3D scanning and additive manufacturing. Initiatives such as Scan the World, and the Google Arts and Culture‘s Open Heritage project seek to digitally preserve cultural landmarks which can then be replicated using 3D printing. Nonetheless, some institutions have claimed copyright over 3D files of artifacts belonging to their collections. Berlin’s Neus […]
3000 year-old Lion of Mosul statue brought back to life with 3D printing
A 3D printed replica of the 3000 year-old Lion of Mosul statue is on display at London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM), as part of a three-part exhibition titled Culture Under Attack. The original stone statue, which was destroyed by ISIS four years ago at the Mosul Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, was digitally modeled by Google Arts and Culture and Rekrei, […]
Google and Stratasys collaborate to preserve cultural heritage with 3D printing
Today, established 3D printer OEM Stratasys announced that it has been collaborating with Google Arts and Culture to 3D print replicas of the world’s artifacts and historical monuments. An extension of Google’s Open Heritage 3D scanning project with CyArk the collaboration was set up to create tactile objects of the data generated in this initiative and encourage […]