The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

These models of Benjamin Harrison, the nation's 23rd president, are available to print from the Presidential Site's collection. The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis was one of the ...

In conjunction with this weekend’s Art Bytes hackathon at the Walters Art Museum, 3D scanning and modeling company Direct Dimensions will be doing 3D scanning of objects inside the museum. The Owings ...

You can't see the back of a van Gogh painting at the Met. It's in a frame, against a wall. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art just put high-definition 3D scans of nearly 140 objects online, and now ...

Today Sketchfab announced that it has added over 1600 public domain 3D models from the Smithsonian Institution and 25 other museums and cultural organizations. The Smithsonian Institution is ...

The Florida Museum's OpenVertebrate project offers a virtual collection of 13,000 3D models of vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, birds, fish- in fact, virtually any animal with an internal or ...

Created using 3D scanning technology, the digital replica follows a major restoration project, intended to return the museum to the condition in which Soane left it to the nation on his death in 1837.

The technique could prove a game-changer for digital preservation. Bas-relief depicting heads of female figures as seen on the exterior of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, 8th-9th century. Photo: ...