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LiDAR Recording in Amazonia
The first phase of aerial LiDAR recording in Amazonia, led by Martti Pärssinen in collaboration with the Ibero-American Foundation in Finland and the Factum Foundation together with many Brazilian, Finnish and...
The Selene System at the British Museum
In July 2024, a team from Factum Foundation installed a Selene Photometric Stereo System in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. As part of the Selene...
Recording and training activities in Zaragoza and Granada
In collaboration with the Universidad de Zaragoza’s Master in Cultural Heritage Management, Pedro Miró, Osama Dawod and Carlos Bayod led an intensive seminar on 3D digitisation of the Oratory in the...
Three recreations for ‘Guercino. L’era Ludovisi a Roma’ on display in Rome
For the exhibition ‘Guercino. L’era Ludovisi a Roma’ (31 October 2024 – 26 January 2025), Factum Foundation recreated two works by Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino...
Selene PSS installed at the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan
As part of a new collaboration made possible thanks to the support of The Helen Hamlyn Trust, Factum Foundation installed a Selene PSS unit at the Instituto Valencia de Don...
Aaltosiilo Partnerships with the New European Bauhaus
We are delighted to announce that Aaltosiilo Ry has officially joined the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative as a partner – one of six in Finland and the only one in...
Factum Foundation is the new owner of Cylinders Estate in Elterwater
Factum Foundation London announces the acquisition of the Cylinders Estate in Elterwater, in Cumbria’s Lake District, the site of the renowned German refugee artist Kurt Schwitters’ final major artwork, the...
Unpublished discoveries about the Bakor Monoliths and UNESCO World Heritage submission
Over the past year, Factum Foundation has been collaborating with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria on the preliminary submission to UNESCO for World Heritage status for...
Renovations have begun at AaltoSiilo
We are excited to share that the AALTOSIILO project is moving into a new phase, thanks to the generous donations from Jean Nordstrom August and others who wish to remain anonymous....
Save the Date: December 2, 2024 | Seeing the Unseen in Oxford University Collections
The very latest in 3D recording technology has revealed near-invisible markings from originals held at Oxford University institutions. Imagery captured with this technology shows what has never before been possible...
Discovered at ARCHiOx: engravings on reverse of copper plates thought to be the earliest produced by William Blake
In October 2024, the Bodleian Libraries announced the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates attributed to the studio of James Basire. High-resolution...
The Virtual Illés Initiative
In July 2019, a team from Factum Foundation used photogrammetry to record Stephen Illés’ 1:500 scale model of Jerusalem – the first topographic relief to aim for scientific accuracy. The...
Factum Foundation and the Demarco Archive
Factum Foundation is in discussion with the artist and promoter of the visual arts Richard Demarco about the future of the Demarco Archive, a remarkable collection of post-war avant-garde and...
High-resolution recording of The Divinity School at The Bodleian Libraries
As part of a collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, a team from Factum Foundation travelled to Oxford to record the ceiling of The Divinity School using photogrammetry. The high-resolution 3D...
Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation: online workshop on photogrammetry for South Asian students
In September 2024, within the framework of AOA – ARCHiVe Online Academy, Factum Foundation organised ‘Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation’, an online workshop focusing on the use of photogrammetry to document...
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