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Treasures from San Clemente, Toledo
Factum Foundation is working at the Royal Monastery of San Clemente in Toledo, digitising a unique selection of artworks and decorative elements. An active monastery of Cistercian nuns in the centre...
Photogrammetry in Heritage Documentation 2025: results of the workshop
Every Saturday from 7 June to 12 July, Imran Khan ran an online, free photogrammetry workshop for university students in the fields of Archaeology, Heritage Conservation, Heritage Studies, and Museum...
Facsimiles of the buches for the Parranda Marinera de Buches
In 2024, artist and cultural manager David Machado Gutiérrez and the Parranda Marinera de Buches, a cultural association based in Arrecife (Lanzarote, Canary Islands), approached Factum Foundation to help preserve an...
Photogrammetry workshop for Hawai’ian students at the Pitt Rivers Museum
From 19 June to 22 July, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford hosted a pioneering cultural study programme with six haumāna (students) and four kumu (teachers and mentors) from the Hawai’i Islands campus of...
‘Migrant Child’ and a migrating wall
A few weeks ago, a section of rendered brickwork containing Banksy’s graffiti of a migrant child holding a flare was removed from Palazzo San Pantalon in Venice. This forms part...
Facsimile of Michelangelo’s wax Prisoner on display at the V&A
In 2024, V&A South Kensington in London reached out to Factum Arte and Factum Foundation to create a replica of Michelangelo’s wax model for one of the ‘Prisoners’ — a series...
An appeal to finish Phase One of the restoration of the AaltoSiilo for Oulu2026
We have never been this direct in the way we ask for support, but the time has come — we need your help. We invite you to be part of...
The Aaltosiilo gains recognition at UNESCO and EU Levels as a model for sustainable urban heritage practices
On 16–17 June, Valentino Tignanelli, Project Manager at Aaltosiilo, participated in the UNESCO Expert Meeting on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urban Contexts, held in Paris. As one of 30 experts...
Relocation: a facsimile of Hercules returns to Alcalá la Real
In an effort to reconnect objects, history, and place, Factum Foundation has collaborated with the City Hall of Alcalá la Real (Spain) and the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid...
The first Selene Technical Meeting
On 30 June, Factum Foundation hosted the first Selene Technical Meeting — a landmark moment for the Selene Photometric Stereo System and the growing Selene Circle. Imaging professionals from across...
A facsimile of the Tumbo Menor de Castilla
In May 2024, Factum Foundation recorded the codex known as the Tumbo Menor de Castilla at the Archivo Nacional Histórico in Madrid, using the Selene Photometric Stereo System and composite...
Recording fossils: the Iberomesornis romerali
The National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) in Madrid asked Factum Foundation to produce a facsimile of Iberomesornis romerali, the only known fossil specimen of this bird species to date....
Touching the rainbow
On 28 June 2025, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici opened ‘Cambiare la prosa del mondo’ (Changing the Prose of the World), its annual Fellows’ Exhibition (28 June –...
Statement on behalf of Factum Arte and Factum Foundation
We are proud to announce that Adam Lowe, Director of Factum Arte and Founder of Factum Foundation, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s...
The enigmatic Carta de la fuesa
Factum Foundation was asked by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to create a high-resolution reproduction of the Carta de la fuesa, a 16th-century Morisco document discovered in 1993 hidden within...
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