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Join us in London: The Kirker Spring Lecture in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund
On Tuesday May 13, Adam Lowe, director of Factum Arte and Founder of Factum Foundation, will give the Kirker Spring Lecture in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund at...
Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation: Online Workshop
Factum Foundation, within the framework of the ARCHiVe Online Academy (AOA), is pleased to announce a free online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This intensive programme is specially designed...
Instituto Valencia de Don Juan expands access to collections
While the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan is not open to the public as a museum, it provides access for researchers to study their collections and archives on site. The...
Facsimiles for ‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ at SMK
‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ opened at the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) in Copenhagen on March 28th and will run until August 31st 2025. The exhibition, curated by Matthias Wivel, presents SMK’s collection...
Reconstructing the lost stone choir of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Factum Foundation is working on the re-materialisation of the lost Choir (the area between the nave and the sanctuary, for the clergy and the choir) of the Catedral de Santiago,...
‘New European Bauhaus in Northern Finland’ Seminar
The Design Centre Proto in Oulu is hosting the ‘New European Bauhaus in Northern Finland’ Seminar on May 8th 2025. Organised by Archinfo, Design Centre Proto, and AaltoSiilo Ry /...
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy: ‘A Fusion of Virtual and Physical: Education, Engagement and Practice through Digital Immersive Experiences’
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy, the joint educational programme between Factum Foundation and Fondazione Giorgio Cini, will continue its 2024-2025 programme with the online seminar ‘A Fusion of Virtual and...
Ongoing restoration at Cylinders
Cylinders Estate, the historic location of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn, is undergoing initial restoration efforts on the Shippon, a building once transformed into a milking shed by landscape architect Harry...
Handling Igbo-Ukwu bronzes at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
On March 27th, the Igbo-Ukwu bronze facsimiles were exhibited at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, where Factum’s partners Drs Kingsley Daraojimba and Pamela Smith are both associates....
‘Lo tienes que ver’ at Fundación Juan March
As part of the exhibition ‘Lo tienes que ver. La autonomía del color en el arte abstracto’ at the Fundación Juan March (February 28th – June 8th, 2025), Factum Foundation...
Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation: Online Workshop
Factum Foundation, within the framework of the ARCHiVe Online Academy (AOA), is pleased to announce a free online workshop on Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation. This intensive programme is specially designed...
Instituto Valencia de Don Juan expands access to collections
While the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan is not open to the public as a museum, it provides access for researchers to study their collections and archives on site. The...
Facsimiles for ‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ at SMK
‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ opened at the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) in Copenhagen on March 28th and will run until August 31st 2025. The exhibition, curated by Matthias Wivel, presents SMK’s collection...
Reconstructing the lost stone choir of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Factum Foundation is working on the re-materialisation of the lost Choir (the area between the nave and the sanctuary, for the clergy and the choir) of the Catedral de Santiago,...
‘New European Bauhaus in Northern Finland’ Seminar
The Design Centre Proto in Oulu is hosting the ‘New European Bauhaus in Northern Finland’ Seminar on May 8th 2025. Organised by Archinfo, Design Centre Proto, and AaltoSiilo Ry /...
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy: ‘A Fusion of Virtual and Physical: Education, Engagement and Practice through Digital Immersive Experiences’
AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy, the joint educational programme between Factum Foundation and Fondazione Giorgio Cini, will continue its 2024-2025 programme with the online seminar ‘A Fusion of Virtual and...
Ongoing restoration at Cylinders
Cylinders Estate, the historic location of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn, is undergoing initial restoration efforts on the Shippon, a building once transformed into a milking shed by landscape architect Harry...
Handling Igbo-Ukwu bronzes at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
On March 27th, the Igbo-Ukwu bronze facsimiles were exhibited at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, where Factum’s partners Drs Kingsley Daraojimba and Pamela Smith are both associates....
‘Lo tienes que ver’ at Fundación Juan March
As part of the exhibition ‘Lo tienes que ver. La autonomía del color en el arte abstracto’ at the Fundación Juan March (February 28th – June 8th, 2025), Factum Foundation...
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Clonando a Miguel Ángel
Los colosos de Roma o la tumba de Tutankamón vuelven a la vida gracias a la tecnología
Colossus of Constantine, Tutankhamun’s tomb brought back to life by technology
The vanishing violet in van Gogh’s Irises
Rescuing the Future
Scans reveal ‘doodling’ William Blake’s earliest engravings
Bobbly lines and an unfinished doodle: super-high-res scans may show William Blake’s first-ever engravings
William Blake’s teenage copper plate doodles discovered
William Blake’s boyhood doodles are discovered after 250 years: Scans reveal a smiley face etched by the poet on copperplates he handled as an apprentice
How a plastic cave made in Spain keeps Amazonian culture alive 5,000 miles away
Charlotte Skene Catling on reviving Alvar Aalto’s derelict silo in Oulu as research center
Indígenas do Xingu recebem réplicade gruta com petróglifos apósoriginal ser vandalizada
Replican una gruta ancestral de un pueblo indígena brasileño en impresión 3D
