PRESS VIDEOS

On 19 November 2025, Begoña Vázquez de la Paz and the team at ‘La Aventura del Saber’ (RTVE) aired a feature on Factum Foundation’s work. The programme offered a look inside our workshop in Madrid, focusing on our team of dedicated professionals working to record, preserve and rematerialise cultural heritage for future generations. It also highlights the key intersection of cutting-edge technology and traditional conservation methods that defines our approach to safeguarding the world’s cultural legacy.

[Spanish] ABC Cultural visited Factum Arte and Factum Foundation’s headquarters in Madrid to observe the process to create facsimiles of a selection of Michelangelo’s sculptures for ‘Michelangelo Imperfect’ at SMK (March 28th – August 31st 2025).

[Spanish] Agencia EFE visits Factum’s headquarters in Madrid to share the new projects in the workshop, among which is the second edition of the Colossus of Constantine to be installed in the UK as part of the Auckland Project.

The project to recreate the Colossus of Constantine was featured on the Italian TV show Stanotte a Roma, hosted by Alberto Angela on Rai 1 on December 24th 2024.

The show highlighted the innovative techniques used to digitally reconstruct the statue from its surviving fragments, offering viewers a fascinating look into the world of historical preservation and digital technology (starting at 1:16:22). Please note that you have to register (free) to RaiPlay to watch the episode.

Celebrated with two days of traditional rituals on October 2nd and 3rd, the Wauja people and leaders from across the Xingu Indigenous Territory welcomed the full-size replica of the Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká. A local Brazilian television visits the replica installed in the new Cultural and Territorial Monitoring Center in Ulupuwene village, Upper Xingu.

Piratá Waurá, teacher and filmmaker: “For us in Xingu, Kamukuwaká is the origin of all cultural knowledge. It taught us how to relate to the world, respect each other, and care for the environment.”

This segment on national Brazilian television talks about the six-year-long project to record and recreate the Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká, following the vandalisation of the original site in 2018. The replica not only restores Indigenous Brazilian culture but also preserves the ancestral knowledge of 16 Xingu peoples. In collaboration with People’s Palace Projects, the initiative involved recording the original cave, reconstructing its petroglyphs with the Wauja people, and transporting the replica from Madrid to Xingu, thanks to Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy program and Crozier Fine Arts.

In this segment for Spanish National Television, Adam Lowe explains the main steps in the process of recreating the Colossus of Constantine. Following its display in the exhibition ‘Recycling Beauty’ at the Fondazione Prada, Factum Foundation’s reconstruction of the Colossus was installed in the heart of Rome, near the Capitoline Museum.

The Gough Map, thought to be Britain’s oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI. The ARCHiOx project in partnership with the Factum Foundation uses a prototype photographic system to examine some of Britain’s oldest artefacts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. The new scanning techniques not only give researchers new ways to study rare objects like the Gough Map, but new preservation tools for archivists to keep priceless artefacts safe for future generations.

This interview with Adam Lowe aired on December 16th 2022 on the Swiss channel RTS, for the programme 19:30, and features Adam Lowe talking about Factum Arte and Factum Foundation’s work.

This short news feature by Telediario on the work of Factum Foundation went live in April 2022, featuring interviews with Nicolas Béliard, Head of Communications, and Carlos Bayod Lucini, Director of Projects at Factum Foundation.

[Spanish] In this video by El País Babelia, Adam Lowe, director of Factum Arte and founder of Factum Foundation, explains the ways in which non-contact methodologies are having a growing impact on the world of conservation and are defining the role facsimiles play in the protection of our cultural heritage.

Paul Rhys and the team at Business Insider visit the Factum Arte workshops in Madrid, watching how they use “the latest 3D scanning and printing technology to create copies of some of the world’s most famous masterpieces — saving them from the ravages of time and even helping to bring back missing works from the dead.”

Rosie-Lyse Thompson from Euronews talks about the recovery and protection of Iraq’s lost artifacts, interviewing Elizabeth Mitchell from Factum Foundation about the two lamassu facsimiles donated to the University of Mosul in November 2019.

The Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry protest, with comments by the East End Preservation Society and the Tower Hamlets Council, was featured as the lead story on BBC News on November 9th, 2019.

[Italian] Adam Lowe’s interview during the episode L’originale e il suo doppio, broadcast on Rai Storia on September 25th 2019 and part of the series Italia: Viaggio nella Bellezza. The episode was focused on the art of copying and reproducing artworks and was produced by Rai Cultura in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Arts and Culture (Mibac). During the episode (starting at 19:15), Factum’s works on Canova, Veronese and Caravaggio are analysed and discussed by various Italian experts in the art history field. Please note that you have to register (free) to RAI Play to watch the episode.