Presentation at the Digital Museum Expo in Amsterdam, about digital restoration of museum objects applied in the Keys2Rome exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rome, Sarajevo and Alexandria. One of the main goals of the Keys2Rome exhibitions is to re-contextualise museum objects in their original environment. Digitising museum objects and building elements and digitally restoring them is crucial for this process. Digital restoration is not only important for this visualisation process, but is also a powerful research tool, that focuses on structure of the object, the creation technique and its use.
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Digital restoration in the Keys2Rome exhibitions
1. V-MUST is funded by the European Commission under the Community's Seventh
Framework Programme, contract no. GA 270404.
Digital restoration
in Keys2Rome
Daniel Pletinckx
Visual Dimension bvba
Belgium
2. Digital restoration
• Digital restoration is necessary for
recontextualisation
• Digital restoration
• can go further than physical restoration
• can provide hypotheses or multiple alternatives
• can reveal aesthetics or the original object
• Documentation is very similar to
virtual reconstruction
• Tools
• Digital sculpting
• Restoration of material
3. Virtual reconstruction of Cim
• Early Christian basilica (5th – 6th century)
• Basilica and memoria
• Seat of a bishop
• Excavated in 1970s
• Published in 1974, excavation log books available
• Archaeological park
• Remains poorly preserved
• Silver & ivory objects disappeared in the 1992-1995 war
• Should be significant community
• Only one house excavated