CultLab3D

The aim of the joint project CultLab3D is to revolutionise the speed with which cultural assets can be digitally recorded in 3D. Its solution approach is based on three pillars:

  1. Developing an innovative scanning technology in the form of the mobile digitisation laboratory CultLab3D, consisting of flexibly deployable, modular components for acquiring 3D geometries and material properties of cultural assets;
  2. Use of semantic technologies to integrate and spatially link 3D models to multimedia information already present in museums and to its metadata;
  3. Developing and evaluating new business models for objects of cultural history.

Within CultLab3D, the cooperation will focus on selected classes of objects such as vases, coins, weapons (spearheads) and busts; the project is not focused on digitising monuments, memorials etc. Also participating in the project are (without funding) the National Museums in Berlin – Prussian Heritage Foundation and the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt/Main (sculpture collection).

Project consortium:

  • Polymetric GmbH (consortium coordinator)
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (FhG-IGD)
  • Architectura Virtualis GmbH
  • Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)


Project duration:   2013–2015

Total volume:        approx. 1.8m euros

Funding volume:   approx. 1.4m euros