3D Visualisation of Museum Objects

This page provides access to an experimental 3D visualisation of museum objects. The interface is based on the PicLens service.

This example was produced during a Mashed Museum event organised by Mike Ellis and held at the University of Leicester on 18 June 2008.

#photo-1 About This Gallery	#photo-2 The Business Case	#photo-3 Thanks	#photo-4 Quer (maloda) used by the Jur Tribe for hoeing, c 1930s. (From Ingeniuous, Science Museum)
#photo-5 Football Association Cup Final, 1938	#photo-6 'Ernest and Maggie', about 1864	#photo-7 Axehead: middle bronze age	#photo-8 Selection of necklaces from the Cheapside Hoard: 16th - 17th century
#photo-9 Restoration of St.Paul's Dome: 21st century	#photo-10 This Space For Hire	#photo-11	#photo-12 Snuff bottle
#photo-13 Sewing kit, owned by Dr John Rae (SCRAN)	#photo-14 Culture 24	#photo-15 Collections Trust	#photo-16 Ship model (NMM)
#photo-17 Blunderbuss (NMM)	#photo-18 (NMM)	#photo-19 Action Between Dutch and English Ships (NMM)	#photo-20 Sabre (NMM)
#photo-21	#photo-22 mia and mike documenting	#photo-23	#photo-24
#photo-25	#photo-26	#photo-27	#photo-28

Start Display

Selecting the following link will start the visualisation of the above images.

Note that if you install the Piclens extension (available for the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers) you will get an 3D view of the pages.

Video Recording

A video recording (6 mins 37 secs) with accompanying audio commentary of use of this tool is available.

The video recording is also available on YouTube which allows the video to be embedded in Web pages.