3D Printing at the Classics Museum

One of the most important rules that children have drilled into their heads before museum field trips is not to touch the exhibits. But in recent years, 3D scanning and 3D printing technology has helped abolish this rule, and now all sorts of important artifacts and exhibits, from dinosaur fossils and mummies to famous paintings and sculptures, are able to be replicated and handled by researchers and students. The Classics Museum at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand is home to a small collection of Greek and Roman artifacts, and one of the university's lecturers is using the technology to allow her students to interact with some of these ancient objects. Dr. Diana Burton, a senior lecturer with the university's School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, has been working with the School of Design to take digital scans of several of the museum's artifacts and 3D printing them, so her students can have "practical experiences" with the objects. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/182487/3d-printed-greek-amphora/

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