If you’ve always wanted to own a historic artifact, now you can own the next best thing: a 3D printed replica of one. The Smithsonian’s network of museums offer 3D renderings of some of its ...

WASHINGTON — With most of its 137 million objects kept behind the scenes or in a faraway museum, the Smithsonian Institution is launching a new 3D scanning and printing initiative to make more ...

Experts are using crowdsourced images and 3D printing technology in an ambitious project to recreate ancient artifacts destroyed by the Islamic State in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Last month ...

With the cost of 3D scanning and printing equipment declining in recent years, Waibel said there's a new opportunity for museums to transform how they collect, curate and conserve artifacts and ...

One of 3D printing’s biggest selling points has ... “The project was to explore physically making these artifacts in an effort to get people hooked and excited about seeing pieces in a museum ...

For decades, the only way to see artifacts like ... With the Smithsonian X 3D Explorer, anyone with an Internet connection can examine, manipulate, and even print exact 3D models of a few of ...

Now, he and Grayburn are using those images to create 3-D-printed, scale models of what's been uncovered. The Morgantina site is very isolated and most of the artifacts have been sealed under ...

SO WE HAVE ABOUT 200,000 ARTIFACTS PHOTOGRAPHED ON LINE AND ABOUT 25 OF THOSE WE’VE GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF 3D SCNIANNG AND PUTTING ON LINE. >> EACH ONE OF THESE ITEMS SERVING AS A TANGIBLE ...

SO WE HAVE ABOUT 200,000 ARTIFACTS PHOTOGRAPHED ON LINE AND ABOUT 25 OF THOSE WE’VE GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF 3D SCNIANNG AND PUTTING ON LINE. >> EACH ONE OF THESE ITEMS SERVING AS A TANGIBLE ...