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The Financial Times Business section has published a video detailing how museums are using digital technologies to increase the reach and appreciation of the respective museums’ collections. The Grant Museum of Zoology in London is using 3D printing to scan, 3D-print, and replicate parts of the skeletons of extinct animals. The Grant Museum has one of the world’s most impressive collections of extinct animals. However, in one instance, researchers who borrowed a leg bone of a skeleton from the Grant Museum never returned the bone. Now, the museum is “#3D printing the bits” of incomplete skeletons.
The British Museum, also in London, has maintained a reputation as an innovator for its 250-year history. Today, the British Museum is working with Samsung and has created a virtual reality world demonstrating how the museum’s Bronze Age collation looked and was used in a natural context. The museum is also working on virtual reality programs that will bring ancient sea creatures back to virtual life for the viewers.