Some considerations about the use of 3D and virtual museums in archaeology.

1. Marco Sartini - Paolo Vigliarolo
Sovraintendenza ai BB.CC. di Roma Capitale
Museo dei Fori Imperiali - Museo della Civiltà Romana

2. Μουσειολογικές τάσεις και προσεγγίσεις:
Η πρόσφατη ιταλική και ελληνική εµπειρία
Le nuove frontiere della museologia in Italia e in Grecia
Αίθουσα Μανόλης Ανδρόνικος, 19 Νοεµβρίου 2010
Salonicco, 19 novembre 2010
Marco Sartini - Paolo Vigliarolo
Sovraintendenza ai BB.CC. di Roma Capitale
Museo dei Fori Imperiali - Museo della Civiltà Romana

4. Today our idea of
“collection” is
something more
than “to collect”:
we need to
communicate

6. Reconstructing the past:
Starting from the original contest

7. Reconstructing the past:
Architecture
Starting from the original contest

8. Reconstructing the past:
Architecture
Sculpture
Starting from the original contest

9. Reconstructing the past:
Architecture
Sculpture
Sources
Starting from the original contest

10. Didymaion at Miletus

11. Didymaion at Miletus

12. Archaeological site of Selinunte

13. We are used to archaeological areas, and
they are part of our culture, of our history,
even if it’s difficoult to understand (and to
reconstruct) their original appearance

18. Some examples of reconstructions

19. Pergamon Altar

20. Market Gate of Miletus

21. Ishtar gate of Babylon

22. Reconstruction of the temple of Augustus and Rome at
Ancyra during the Augustan Exhibition of Romanitas (1937)

23. This is one of the first examples of “virtualisation” in a scale
of 1:1

24. Reconstruction of the temple of Augustus and Rome at
Ancyra inside the Museum of Roman Culture

26. Moulds of Trajan’s column frieze inside the Museum of Roman
Culture

27. Decoration from the pediment of the temple of Apollo Sosianos
inside the Centrale Montemartini Museum

28. Perirrhanterion recomposition inside the Centrale Montemartini
Museum

30. The role of Multimedia inside the
Museum of the Imperial Fora

31. The role of Multimedia inside the
Museum of the Imperial Fora
3D Watercolours Satellite pictures Videos

32. The role of Multimedia inside the
Museum of the Imperial Fora
3D Watercolours Satellite pictures Videos
are used as a “medium”
and not as the “aim”

44. in the Allard
Pierson Museum
in Amsterdam
during the "A
Future for the
Past" exhibition
A virtual reconstruction of Satricum and...
...an annotated
landscape on a
1855
photograph of
Forum
Romanum

46. Another example of augmented reality from Japan:
this technology is spreading and becoming day by day more
sophisticated, but we need to focus on CONTENT

48. A new way to communicate:
the virtual museum...but...
What is a “Virtual” Museum?
Why we “need” virtual museums?

49. A new way to communicate:
the virtual museum...but...
What is a “Virtual” Museum?
Why we “need” virtual museums?
The virtual museum is the result of the conjunction of the traditional
concept of a museum with the multimedia computer and communication
technology of the Internet. The virtual museum is dematerializing the object
for the benefit of providing much more information: the image in all its
manifestations (2D, 3D, details, physico-chemical analyses, facsimiles, etc.) and
the knowledge of the image (intrinsic information on the object, ex-trinsic
information on the context of the object, historiographical information,
reference information, etc.). It dematerializes the museum itself by making
possible a “remote visit”
F. Djindjian

56. Some considerations
The items are collected in thematic and chronological paths (in
the halls);
there are texts, images, videos and a 3D model for each item;
but:
the 3D is used in a technology-driven way.
Its use is poor both for the users and for the scholars. We can’t
really interact, get measures of the items, or make real
comparisons between the objects.

57. Another way to use 3D in virtual museums: vr Panoramas

60. The potential of the vr panoramas is great, but in
the last examples the users can’t retrieve any
information/contents.
We’re trying to obtain this aim with an European Network of
many professionals both from the technology side and the
culture side

61. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011

62. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:

63. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:

64. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:
inverting the perspective and approach commonly adopted (technology-
driven), starting from contents and from planned communication objectives;

65. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:
inverting the perspective and approach commonly adopted (technology-
driven), starting from contents and from planned communication objectives;
creation and consolidation of inter-disciplinary teams as the only way to
ensure a correct communication;

66. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:
inverting the perspective and approach commonly adopted (technology-
driven), starting from contents and from planned communication objectives;
creation and consolidation of inter-disciplinary teams as the only way to
ensure a correct communication;
use of a bottom-up approach. Bringing people together doesn't necessarily
mean creating a fruitful cooperation, able to generate new inputs in the
research;

67. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:
inverting the perspective and approach commonly adopted (technology-
driven), starting from contents and from planned communication objectives;
creation and consolidation of inter-disciplinary teams as the only way to
ensure a correct communication;
use of a bottom-up approach. Bringing people together doesn't necessarily
mean creating a fruitful cooperation, able to generate new inputs in the
research;
identification of good-practice examples and of the procedure to grant a
quality label;

68. V-Must.net
EU project starting from february 2011
Objectives:
inverting the perspective and approach commonly adopted (technology-
driven), starting from contents and from planned communication objectives;
creation and consolidation of inter-disciplinary teams as the only way to
ensure a correct communication;
use of a bottom-up approach. Bringing people together doesn't necessarily
mean creating a fruitful cooperation, able to generate new inputs in the
research;
identification of good-practice examples and of the procedure to grant a
quality label;
integration of young researchers into the training and mobility program.

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70. Marco Sartini - Paolo Vigliarolo
marco.sartini@gmail.com - paolovigliarolo@gmail.com
CC (Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) images: Forum Romanum: Carla Tavares; Pergamon altar: Lestat (Jan Mehlich); Ishtar
gate of Babylon: Raimond Spekking; Pediment of Apollo Sosianos temple and perirrhanterion: Lalupa

71. ευχαριστώ για την προσοχή σας
Marco Sartini - Paolo Vigliarolo
marco.sartini@gmail.com - paolovigliarolo@gmail.com
CC (Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) images: Forum Romanum: Carla Tavares; Pergamon altar: Lestat (Jan Mehlich); Ishtar
gate of Babylon: Raimond Spekking; Pediment of Apollo Sosianos temple and perirrhanterion: Lalupa