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National Museum Warsaw and Partage Plus project awarded with the Sybilla 2015 prize

The National Museum Warsaw (MNW) received the Polish Sybilla 2015 award in the category "Best Digitisation Project" for the participation in the Partage Plus project. The international project kicked off in March 2012 with the aim of digitizing and 3D scanning more than 79.000 art works from the Art Nouveau period. All items were made available via the Euopeana platform and can be accessed under the following link. The Partage Plus team, composed of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe, feels immensely honoured by this award and thanks the organizers of Sybilla 2015 for this mention.

Design museum Gent: 3D online collection available on DmG`s website

We are happy to inform you about a great update to the website of the Design museum Gent. You can now take a look at the first results of the 3D scanning!

In June 2013 partner Steinbichler scanned over 100 objects from DmG`s turn-of-the-century collection in 3D. A big job, whereof you can find some examples on the updated website. Several types of objects and materials, like thin handles and silver, proved to be unsuited for 3D scanning. On the other hand base metals and ceramics provided no problems. The Flemish ceramicists from the turn of the century could probably never have foreseen that their creations would be placed upside down on a turntable bathing in flashing light …

Take a look at the brand new Partage Plus site on the website of the Design museum Gent!