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Factum Foundation is the new owner of Cylinders Estate in Elterwater
Factum Foundation London announces the acquisition of the Cylinders Estate in Elterwater, in Cumbria’s Lake District, the site of the renowned German refugee artist Kurt Schwitters’ final major artwork, the...
‘Maps are too exciting! Digital innovations in cartography’: a Sunderland Collection Symposium in association with ARCHiOx and Bodleian Libraries
Thursday 10 October 2024 – 10am–4pm (BST) – At the Weston Library and online – Free, booking required Technologies continuously evolve transforming the representation of space and geography, shaping new...
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy 2024
At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the new year at AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy has already started with the new modules on ‘Access to image-based resources in the context of the...
Inspiring the next phase at the Warburg Institute
The facsimile of the Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros was recently installed at the Warburg Institute ahead of their reopening on October 1st. The Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros, an Archaic Greek sculpture, was loaned to...
Online photogrammetry workshop for students from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Factum Foundation, in collaboration with ARCHiVe Online Academy, is inviting university students of architecture, archaeology, and heritage conservation to an online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This workshop is...
Helping preserve a Michelangelo at the V&A
At the V&A, the increasingly warm summer temperatures raised concerns for a wax model for one of the Prisoners (Prigioni) Michelangelo made for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Working with...
Research Lab at Grote Kerk Naarden
Starting August 26, 2024, the Grote Kerk Naarden in the Netherlands becomes a hub of cutting-edge research as it hosts a pioneering 3D scanning and 3D modelling project. For one...
The Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes
In May 2024, alongside a visit to the National Museum by a delegation from the Igbo-Ukwu community, a team from Factum Foundation carried out a training programme for a group...
The Living Spaces Symposium and the AaltoSiilo Festival 2024
The AaltoSiilo and the Skene Catling de la Peña + Factum Foundation proposals for the future of the building have been selected by the European Commission as one of 12...
Digitising a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce permission from the Ministry of Culture in Spain to carry out the digitisation of a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, after...
‘Maps are too exciting! Digital innovations in cartography’: a Sunderland Collection Symposium in association with ARCHiOx and Bodleian Libraries
Thursday 10 October 2024 – 10am–4pm (BST) – At the Weston Library and online – Free, booking required Technologies continuously evolve transforming the representation of space and geography, shaping new...
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy 2024
At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the new year at AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy has already started with the new modules on ‘Access to image-based resources in the context of the...
Inspiring the next phase at the Warburg Institute
The facsimile of the Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros was recently installed at the Warburg Institute ahead of their reopening on October 1st. The Wilton-Warburg Kriophoros, an Archaic Greek sculpture, was loaned to...
Online photogrammetry workshop for students from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Factum Foundation, in collaboration with ARCHiVe Online Academy, is inviting university students of architecture, archaeology, and heritage conservation to an online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This workshop is...
Helping preserve a Michelangelo at the V&A
At the V&A, the increasingly warm summer temperatures raised concerns for a wax model for one of the Prisoners (Prigioni) Michelangelo made for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Working with...
Research Lab at Grote Kerk Naarden
Starting August 26, 2024, the Grote Kerk Naarden in the Netherlands becomes a hub of cutting-edge research as it hosts a pioneering 3D scanning and 3D modelling project. For one...
The Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes
In May 2024, alongside a visit to the National Museum by a delegation from the Igbo-Ukwu community, a team from Factum Foundation carried out a training programme for a group...
The Living Spaces Symposium and the AaltoSiilo Festival 2024
The AaltoSiilo and the Skene Catling de la Peña + Factum Foundation proposals for the future of the building have been selected by the European Commission as one of 12...
Digitising a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce permission from the Ministry of Culture in Spain to carry out the digitisation of a selection of works from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, after...
Press Articles
Inside kurt schwitters’ merz barn, the dada artist’s final work, revived by factum foundation
The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters’ last masterpiece finally about to be restored?
Could you spot a fake painting? Even experts are struggling
Huge dinosaur skeleton appears in London in middle of the night – with incredible story behind it
Viaggio nei laboratori di Factum, dove si creano sorprendenti facsimili dei capolavori dell’arte
The Renaissance reborn: meet the man who recreates masterpieces
The man who found a solution to the museum restitution row… using a 3D scanner
Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus
El Coloso de Constantino revive en Roma: la gran obra de una empresa de Madrid con impresoras 3D
Il Colosso di Costantino, una «magnifica illusione»
El horno árabe que despierta de su letargo
A Virginia Museum Repatriated a Nigerian Sculpture and Received a High-Tech Replica in Return. Could the Exchange Shape Future Restitutions?
US museum returns centuries-old Bakor monolith to Nigeria
Will replicas tempt museums to return looted objects more quickly?
Auras migratoires. Entretien avec Adam Lowe, par Jean-Michel Frodon
