Anna Margherita JASINK / Grazia TUCCI
(University of Florence, Italy)
Outline:
- To connect local archaeological collections and to share knowledge about medium and small size artifacts stored in far apart museums and not usually accessible for visitors;
- To recover the urban, social, political and economic environment of Bronze age settlements in the areas of interest (Greece, Crete, Cycladic islands, Rhodes and Cyprus).
Abstract: The MUSINT project “An interactive museum system design: The virtual museum of the Aegean and Cypriot antiquities collections in Tuscany” aims to connect local archaeological collections and share knowledge about medium and small size artifacts stored in far apart museums and not usually accessible for visitors, in spite of their distinguished value in terms of quality and assortment of the repertoire.
Various areas of expertise have been involved in the implementation of the project, carried out under the scientific direction of the Dept. of Antiquities of the University of Florence: besides archaeology, three-dimensional survey, geomatics and multimedial communication.
The integration in a virtual display of a large number of accurate and reliable 3D digital models, and of substantial descriptive textual, cartographic and photographic documentation, recreates the historical context for each finding. Interaction on the Web and on stand-alone interfaces situated in the actual physical museum spaces in Italy will be a fundamental didactic aid to make users understand and access the reconstructed provenance environment and relocate culturally and physically distant findings where they once belonged.
In this way it will also be possible to recover the urban, social, political and economic environment of Bronze age settlements in the areas of interest (Greece, Crete, Cycladic islands, Rhodes and Cyprus).
Keywords: Archaeology, virtual museum, 3D modeling