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Xingu Heritage
A team from Factum Foundation has just returned from the upper Xingu region of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, where they participated in People’s Palace Projects collaboration with the...
Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols
Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith has written a new article exploring the conceptual background to the exhibition ‘Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols’ as a ‘Think Piece’ for the Architectural Review....
The Griffoni Altarpiece Returns to San Petronio
On October 1st, 2017, the facsimiles of all known panels of the Griffoni Polyptych were installed in the St. Vincent Ferrer Chapel in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna,...
Data ownership & access
Factum Foundation will participate this September in the “Reproduction of Works of Art and Cultural Heritage” (ReACH) roundtable at the Hermitage Museum with the V&A and Peri Foundation. ReACH celebrates...
Visit “Scanning Seti” in Basel
Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb is exhibited at the Antikenmuseum Basel and will remain on view until May 6th, 2017. Scanning Seti is a presents the evolution...
The Facsimile of Idrimi
On September 27th, at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Making Light launched an initiative to present new voices of Syrian refugees. Factum Foundation supported their efforts by recording...
Factum Foundation has now produced facsimiles for the exhibition IDENTIFICATION at the State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting the exhibition ‘IDENTIFICATION’ to coincide with the third event of ReACH, a series of international symposia led by the V&A and...
Digitizing Antonio Canova’s work
The Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa has partnered with the Factum Foundation to digitize the work of Antonio Canova. The collaboration began with the digitization of Canova´s Three Graces...
Understanding Seti´s Sarcophagus
On Monday, November 27th, Joanna Tinworth, Curator at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, and Adam Lowe, discussed the importance of recording the sarcophagus of Seti I and the role this...
A new book scanner in Daghestan
With the support of the Peri Foundation, the new Factum Foundation book scanner was installed at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography (IHAE) in Makhachkala (Dagestan). The IHAE will...
Recording in Casa de Pilatos, Seville
In early October, a team from Factum Foundation spent three days in Seville for the recording of various elements of Casa de Pilatos. As part of our collaboration with the...
Kamukuwaká: vandalised indigenous rock art site
A team from Factum Foundation has returned from the Xingu region of the Amazon where they discovered the destruction of a uniquely important petroglyph site. The vandalised cave is home...
News from Dagestan
A team from Factum Foundation is in Dagestan to install a new portable manuscript scanner for the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography in Makhachkala. The scanner will be taken...
The facsimile of the tomb of Seti I at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo
The exact facsimile of the sarcophagus of Seti I, produced in 2017 by the Factum Foundation and initially part of the exhibition “Scanning Seti: The regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb”,...
Venice: Homo Faber, Veronese, workshop
During the exhibition Homo Faber: Crafting a more human future (14-30 Sept. 2018) at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, two works by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese were digitised...
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