MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2020_03

MuseoMag 2020_03

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Title:: The MNHA from the safety of your home: Keeping in touch with our visitors by offering an immersive experience on our website

9 03 ‘ 2020 museomag 3D EXHIBITIONS / works by projecting an invisible pattern into a space. The way that it deforms when striking surfaces allows it to calculate the depth and surface information of the space and the objects (objects, display cases, etc.) it contains. The 3D sensor gathers special information by rotating around its axis and the system’s camera si- multaneously produces high-resolution images of the same space. 3D spaces consist of a large number of such individual scans. In a second step, the data is transferred to the Mat- terport servers where the spatial information captured by the 3D sensor and the high-resolution images are combined in order to create a 3D space. Finally, the di- gitization department enriched the resulting 3D model with textual information as well as multimedia content such as images, PDFs and videos. NOT A SUBSTITUTE TO A REAL MUSEUM VISIT Despite being a propriety system, one of the techno- logy’s main advantages, especially during lockdown, is that spaces can be scanned by a single person. This way social distancing measures could be respected. Getting the exhibitions online was not only a techno- logical feat, it also involved the collaborative effort of a number of people. The museum’s accounting depart- ment hastily dealt with administrative details, in-visible scanned the different spaces in only a matter of days, copyright holders gave their permission to publish videos online and graphic designers adapted the layout of the different catalogues so that they could be made freely available. Even though the 3D scans of the MNHA’s current temporary exhibitions were created in order to com- pensate the limitations imposed by the lockdown, they will remain available for the foreseeable future. Despite the fact that the museum has reopened its doors in the meantime, it is not yet advisable to the more vulner- able among us to visit public spaces and travelling will remain rather complicated over the coming months. The 3D spaces allow visitors to experience exhibitions that would otherwise have been fully inaccessible, but they are certainly not a substitute to a real museum visit. Over the coming months, the focus of the MNHA’s digital department will shift towards its collections platform (collections.mnha.lu) in order to enlarge the number of works that are currently available here. Gilles Zeimet Links 3D@MNHA - https://www.mnha.lu/en/exhibitions/current - https://www.mnha.lu/en/useful-information/ 3d-tours/3d-tours Links 3D@M3E - https://m3e.public.lu/fr/visites-activites/ visites-3d.html

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