News Archive
New Recording in the Tomb of Ramsses X: 8000 Fragments from the Tomb of Seti I
Through the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative and the 3D Recording, Archiving and Training Centre at Stoppelaëre House, which received the patronage of the Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO last year,...
Call in for Whitechapel Bell Foundry Planning Application
Factum Foundation and Re-Form Heritage are pleased and encouraged by the news that the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, has...
Forthcoming exhibition: Polittico Griffoni at Palazzo Fava in Bologna
All 16 paintings that once formed the Polittico Griffoni are being reunited in Bologna for the first time since 1725. It is a great moment for the city and it...
New recording at the National Galleries of Scotland
On the 4th and 5th February 2020, a team from Factum Foundation will carry out the high-resolution digitisation in 3D and colour of Old Woman Cooking Eggs by Diego Velázquez...
Stoppelaëre House nominated for ICCROM-Sharjah Award 2019
The restoration of the Stoppelaëre House, carried out in 2017 by the Tarek Waly Center with support from Factum Foundation, has been nominated for the ICCROM-Sharjah Award for the Conservation...
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...
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