In the recent years, museums and other cultural institutions around the world have become one of the most interesting targets for application of 3D printing due to the specific character of the objects that these institutions study, collect and exhibit.
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These objects are fragile and of historical importance, so they are usually displayed behind the glass and visitors are forbidden to touch them. Historians Myrsini Samaroudi and Karina Rodriguez Echavarria spoke about the influence of 3D printing on museums and galleries.
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Touching is permitted
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One of the most famous digital fabrication projects is a replica of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt by Factum Arte. The replica makes it possible for tourists to get inside the tomb without damaging the original. The American Museum of Natural History asked students to digitally present, print, and assemble dinosaur bones and determine their species like paleontologists do; the […]
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