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Upcoming exhibition: Bakor monoliths at British Museum will tour to Nigeria
Factum Foundation and Carène Foundation are working together with the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) and the University of Calabar (UNICAL) on a a project aimed at documenting, conserving...
Teaching at Columbia University’s GSAPP
The Advanced Preservation Technology Studio, taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP in collaboration with Factum Foundation, has concluded one more semester with remarkable results. This year the students employed a range...
The Auckland Project
Factum Foundation is working on an exciting new initiative to bring some of the masterpieces of Spanish art to County Durham, UK. Led by the art collector Jonathan Ruffer, the...
Hope for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The campaign to save the church bell foundry at Whitechapel has entered a new and positive phase. On 3rd December the UK Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local...
Recording the Tomb of Raphael at the Pantheon in Rome
More news about this collaboration with Scuderie del Quirinale – Ales will be released soon but we can say that it is part of the celebrations that will surround the...
Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The planning meeting to decide the future of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry will take place on 14th November. This historic institution, London’s oldest continuous manufacturing business, is threatened with conversion...
Facsimiles of two Lamassu from the north-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud have been donated to the University of Mosul by Factum Foundation and the British Museum
On 24th October, exact facsimiles of two lamassu statues (Assyrian protective deities in the form of human-headed winged lions) have been presented at the University of Mosul by Factum Foundation...
The Xingu Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká An emergency forum on indigenous cultural heritage in the Brazilian Amazon
On the 18th and 19th of October 2019, Factum Foundation hosted an event at its workshops in Madrid to launch the facsimile of the restored sacred cave of Kamukuwaká, located...
Columbia University graduate fieldwork in Venice
Graduate students from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) spent the week of 7th-11th October recording elements of the Prioral Palace and Church of the Order...
Lamassu facsimiles sent to the University of Mosul
Two monumental facsimiles of lamassu, Assyrian winged lion deities with human heads, are now on their way from Madrid to Mosul. After being flown to the city with the help...
Next year at the British Museum: new exhibition on the Bakor Monoliths
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary in November 2020 of the ‘UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transport of Ownership of Cultural...
Jeremy Corbyn endorses the campaign to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
In London there has been an important meeting in the Mosque with the Local MP and many councillors pledging support for the Factum Foundation and UKHBPT scheme to revitalise the...
New collaborations focusing on the Spanish Golden Age
Spanish painting, the original reason that Factum was established in Madrid, is the focus of a great deal of our attention. Following successful collaborations with Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, the...
Unveiling the reconstruction of the sacred cave of Kamukuwaká
Following months of ‘organic modelling’, carried out in close communication with the Wauja community in Upper Xingu (Brazil), the reconstruction of the sacred cave will be unveiled in Factum’s Madrid...
The recording of Raphael’s Cartoons at the V&A
In August 2019, a team of 3D recording and high-resolution panoramic photography specialists from Factum Foundation carried out the recording of the Raphael Cartoons at the V&A, which have been...
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