An online museum that allows you to take the exhibited works home with you: it’s called Scan The World and it’s a digital archive containing over 16 thousand scans of the most famous sculptures and monuments in the world.
From David at Michelangelo al Rodin’s Thinker, passing through the Bust of Nefertiti, these masterpieces can be reproduced thanks to a 3d printer, obviously after having downloaded the relative file. Which is free.
Culture
With Google to discover the masters of painting
by Andrea Daniele Signorelli
A perfect gift for fans who have always wanted to own an object of art in the living room: they will not be as precious and beautiful as the original works, but these faithful reproductions allow you to observe and study all their details in defiance of the strict rule that is in force in every museum, that of look and not touch (and often not even photograph). Each masterpiece on the site is accompanied by a card with technical and historical-artistic information and there is also a comments section, where the people who downloaded the file show the result of the 3D printing process.
The collection grows continuously thanks to the contribution of the many who share the desire to make art ever more accessible to everyone: people not only play a passive role, using files to reproduce the work, but they can also enrich the scans of the digital archive, sharing 3d models or sending photos of an object taken from every possible angle, so to allow Scan The World experts to create a model available to everyone. There is also a section of the site that explains how fare.
Scan The World is a project by My Mini Factory, a collaborative platform for three-dimensional printing: thanks to a partnership with Google Arts & Culture, a collection of high-resolution images of works of art, the collection has been enriched with new works. And numerous museums, such as the British Museum in London, the Louvre of Paris and the Metropolitan of New York, have decided to participate in the initiative.
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