A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, the Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing “may have as ...
A small team at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre is reconstructing a 9-metre Styxosaurus skeleton using 3D printing ...
The Image Permanence Institute received a National Leadership Grant for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the amount of $375,543 to support a three-year research project ...
It seemed like the perfect digital heist. The Nefertiti bust, created in 1345 B.C., is the most famous work in the collection of Berlin’s Neues Museum. The museum has long prohibited visitors from ...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has begun 3D printing reproductions of a handful of paintings in its own collection, taking art in the age of mechanical reproduction to a whole new level. Van Gogh ...
Many museums around the world remain shuttered. Fortunately, you can still visit some of the best virtually, from the comfort and safety of your own couch. But why stop there? Forget just looking at ...
Inside the “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums” exhibit at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2021. Courtesy of Peter Wolff/Weltkulturen Museum ...
The EufyMake E1 UV printer promises to be a game-changer, bringing 3D-texture printing technology from industrial settings into the home. For those of us who have tinkered with 3D printers, this ...
Over the past several years, Belgian manufacturing firm Materialise has 3D-printed items such as running shoes, a dress and a wheelchair. Now, the company has created something a little larger – a ...
They teamed up with 3D printing startup and marketplace Shapeways and had six designers put their spin on this revered ...
Special effects studio KNB EFX recreated a quarter-scale replica of Bruce from "Jaws" for an exhibition using 3D printing.