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Final Review session for the Advanced Preservation Technology Studio at Columbia University
In 2018, Adam Lowe and Carlos Bayod’s course within GSAPP ‘s Studio on Advanced Preservation Technology programme, at Columbia University, was based on the application of non-contact digital recording systems...
The Re-Opening of the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Cast Courts at the V&A reopened this November following a long refurbishment. Factum Foundation, in collaboration with the Peri Foundation and with the support of the Dagestan aul museum...
Photogrammetry Training at Al-Ula
In September 2018, Factum Foundation’s Otto Lowe spent two weeks in the town of Al-Ula, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, teaching a group of fifteen locals how to record...
Recording an avant-garde masterpiece
Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, 1915 is regarded as the iconic painting of the Russian avant-garde. In March 2018, a Factum Foundation team were at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in...
Factum Foundation at the Protecting the Past Conference, Sharjah, December 2018
On December 6th, the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East & North Africa (EAMENA) Project invited Factum Foundation’s director, Adam Lowe, and photogrammetry expert, Otto Lowe, to talk jointly with...
Fitch Colloqium 2019
On February 15th, Factum Foundation’s Carlos Bayod participated at the Fitch Colloqium; a conference hosted by Columbia University GSAPP’s Historical Preservation Programme that explored the future of historical preservation through...
Recording of the Al Ain Museum
In September 2018, a team from Factum Foundation travelled to the oasis city of Al Ain in the Abu Dhabi Emirate in order to record and digitise the exhibits of...
Rebuilding the Heraclitus Vessel
Factum first got involved in the rebuilding of the ferro-concrete Research Vessel Heraclitus, a 25-metre long concrete Chinese junk that carried out important expeditions over 40 years and 270,000 nautical...
Facsimile of the Jamnitzer Bell at Strawberry Hill House
The extraordinary ‘Cellini Bell’ by Wenzel Jamnitzer (1507/1508 to 1585) was recorded in June 2018 at the British Museum in London. This highly intricate cast and chased silver bell was...
Recording of 11 shabti figurines of Seti I
A team from Factum Foundation has started the photogrammetric recording of eleven shabti statuettes from the tomb of Seti I (1290-1279BC) in the Valley of the Kings. These statuettes are...
Factum Arte’s profile, by Patek Philippe
‘Applying Technology: Preserving the Past… Informing the Present’ by Adam Lowe
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Fundación Gondra Barandiarán and the Universidad de Deusto are presenting the first edition of the summer course “Museographies. Ways of seeing art”. Taking place...
Adam Lowe’s Talk at UNESCO’s ReACH Conference
In May 2017, UNESCO launched the ReACH (Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage) initiative, a program aiming at engaging in a global conversation with museums and heritage communities to discuss...
Powhatan’s Mantle is the Object of the Month at the Ashmolean Museum
In June, the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford nominated the Powhatan’s Mantle object of the month. This leather, shell and sinew piece is one of the oldest and most important artefacts...
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
An innovative cartographic model of Middle-earth is exhibited at the Bodleian Library’s exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth from June, 1st – October, 28th. The exhibition comprises drawings and notes made...
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