Press Release: Introducing 3D Big Data Space at The Hunt Museum
28 January, 2025
20.10.21
The Hunt Museum will host “Ride a Flying Fish”, a VR experience that explores The Garden of Earthly Delights, a 500-year-old triptych by the Dutch painter by Hieronymus Bosch from Thursday 21st October until 24th December 2021.
Not only does the VR exhibition give visitors access to a renowned seminal work that resides in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, the experience allows people to feel as if they are stepping inside the intricate painting. Through the VR headset technology, viewers Ride a Flying Fish as they travel through each panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights. The journey begins at the Garden of Eden and proceeds through Earthly Delights before descending into hell.
Pictured enjoying the “Ride a Flying Fish”, a VR experience that explores The Garden of Earthly Delights. At the Hunt Museum Limerick was Emma King, Hunt Museum. Picture: Alan Place
29th January 2025, Limerick — The Hunt Museum, in collaboration with leading European partners, is set to begin an exciting new project, “3D Data Space”. This project will launch on Saturday, 1st February 2025, this 18-month initiative will enrich the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage with high-quality 3D data and make it more accessible for cultural heritage, education, and tourism across Europe, quality content and Extended Reality (XR) and 3D applications.
As a partner the Hunt Museum will be part of a project to expand the availability of high-quality 3D content for the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage. By aggregating diverse data sources, creating long-term storage, and applying advanced AI tools to improve metadata and content classification, the project will support Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 4D applications in the cultural sector, bringing immersive experiences to new audiences. The Hunt Museum as a museum partner will test exciting VR and AR edutainment tools created by the consortium, creating engaging and educational tools to teach the Bronze Age to secondary school students.
Key Project Goals:
- Expanding High-Quality 3D Content: Aggregating over 50,000 3D models into the European data space, including 1,000 accessible through Europeana.eu.
- Developing a Europe-Wide Storage System: Testing public 3D data storage infrastructure for long-term accessibility across European repositories.
- AI-Enhanced Data Enrichment: Using AI to improve findability and reusability through metadata enhancements.
- Creating Tools for XR Applications: Developing Europe-wide tools such as 3D and AR viewers and 4D world views, broadening the scope of cultural experiences.
- Engagement and Training: Showcasing demos in museums and heritage routes and engaging over 4,000 professionals and 20,000 individuals through training and outreach.
The project addresses key challenges in 3D cultural heritage by enhancing accessibility, findability, and relevance of vast 3D datasets. Sander Münster of the Time Machine Organisation highlights:
“With 3DBigDataSpace, we’re increasing 3D content, testing pan-European storage, and deploying enrichment and viewing tools at scale.”
This project draws from the strengths of a consortium that spans the 3D data supply chain, including:
- Cultural Heritage Networks: Partners like Time Machine Organisation (TMO), ICOMOS, and 4CH Competence Centre.
- Heritage and Tourism Partners: Including the Hunt Museum and the University of Vigo.
- Europeana Aggregators and Research Institutions: With partners like PSNC, CARARE, and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
- Digital Infrastructure and SME Partners: Including IN2, rooom AG, and the Europeana Foundation.
By increasing the availability and usability of 3D content and creating engaging new tools, 3DBigDataSpace aims to align with the European Commission’s objective of digitizing endangered cultural sites by 2030, helping to preserve and promote Europe’s rich heritage for future generations.
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Cairell Ryan, Marketing Manager
cairell@huntmuseum.com
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About the Hunt Museum
The Hunt Museum, located in the heart of Limerick, houses the renowned collection of antiquities, art, and artefacts assembled by John and Gertrude Hunt. Passionate antiquarians, the Hunts collected over 2,000 objects spanning from the Neolithic period to the present day. This diverse collection includes works by iconic artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jack B. Yeats, along with a wide range of historical objects, jewellery, and decorative arts. Today, the museum serves as a cultural hub, holding the collection in trust for the people of Limerick and offering visitors a rich exploration of art and history.
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