Museums have more objects in storage than they do on show, which means exhibitions come and go, even long-standing ones have to say goodbye at some point. But it’s no longer the case that when they ...

Marble relief, corner-stone of Slab XLII from the North Frieze and Slab I of the West Frieze of the Parthenon: procession of horse-drawn chariots (438-432 BCE ...

The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley, contains more than 300,000 vertebrate specimens — the majority of them reptiles and amphibians — preserved in alcohol ...

We are excited to announce that the BCMA has added a major new technology to our digital labs this summer, a pair of 3D scanners from Artec3D. The addition of 3D scanning technologies expands the ...

The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) stated Tuesday that it is planning to file an injunction against the British Museum to require the museum to allow a 3D-scanning project of the infamous ...

Museums as public educational institutions emerged in 19th-century Europe, evolving from the treasuries of ancient Greek temples and the statue-filled gardens of Roman emperors into spaces designed to ...

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Banner image: Nick Conklin (kneeling) of 3D Printing Colorado captures a scan of a Triceratops skull at the CU Museum of Natural History (Credit: Glenn Asakwa/CU Boulder) For more than 40 years, ...

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural History recently released on the internet an interactive 3D scan of its triceratops skull, a fossil nearly the size of a small car. The museum ...

Picture a natural history museum. What comes to mind? Childhood memories of dinosaur skeletons and dioramas? Or maybe you still visit to see planetarium shows or an IMAX feature? You may be surprised ...