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Instituto Valencia de Don Juan expands access to collections
While the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan is not open to the public as a museum, it provides access for researchers to study their collections and archives on site. The...
Ongoing restoration at Cylinders
Cylinders Estate, the historic location of Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn, is undergoing initial restoration efforts on the Shippon, a building once transformed into a milking shed by landscape architect Harry...
Handling Igbo-Ukwu bronzes at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
On March 27th, the Igbo-Ukwu bronze facsimiles were exhibited at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, where Factum’s partners Drs Kingsley Daraojimba and Pamela Smith are both associates....
‘Lo tienes que ver’ at Fundación Juan March
As part of the exhibition ‘Lo tienes que ver. La autonomía del color en el arte abstracto’ at the Fundación Juan March (February 28th – June 8th, 2025), Factum Foundation...
Join us in London: The Kirker Spring Lecture in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund
On Tuesday May 13, Adam Lowe, director of Factum Arte and Founder of Factum Foundation, will give the Kirker Spring Lecture in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund at...
Workshop at Grote Kerk Naarden wins UU Team Award for Education 2025
Last year, a one-week workshop at the Grote Kerk Naarden in the Netherlands brought together students from several Dutch universities to participate in a ‘learning by doing’ 3D scanning and...
ARCHiVe: Digitally reuniting the Benedictine Library of San Giorgio Maggiore
A new initiative by Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford) is set to digitally reunite the historic collection of books once held by the Benedictine monks of San Giorgio Maggiore, which was...
Recording and training in La Madraza, Granada
At the end of January 2025, as part of Factum Foundation’s ongoing collaboration with the Universidad de Granada, Carlos Bayod and Osama Dawod carried out the first digital recording of...
3D prints of the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes
In 2024 a team from Factum Foundation carried out a photogrammetry training session at the Nigerian National Museum in Lagos with young members of the Igbo-Ukwu community. During the training,...
Historic England acknowledges the London Bell Foundry’s plans
A recent article on MyLondon highlighted the growing public outrage over the current condition of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Graffiti has steadily increased on the historic doors since a Public Inquiry...
News from the North: first phase of the Aaltosiilo renovation is complete
We are proud to announce that the first phase of renovation for the Aaltosiilo project has been successfully completed. The inner metal and wood structures have been dismantled, and repairs...
New recordings in India
In December 2024, Imran Khan and Celeste Anstruther travelled to India to scan two paintings attributed to Ribera and Titian in the collection of Abhishek Poddar, a renowned art collector,...
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library join the Selene Circle
A Selene Photometric Stereo System has been successfully installed at the newly renovated Imaging Lab at the John Rylands Research Institute & Library, University of Manchester. Factum Foundation’s team set...
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...
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