A Swedish museum will digitize its collection of mummies in 3D, allowing visitors to remove the wrappings in digital form.
The mummies from the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm will be digitized using photographs and X-rays to create 3D models.
The museum will scan six mummies, creating high-resolution 3D digital models by synthesizing data from photographs and X-rays. This process is called photorealistic image capture technology.
With this method, visitors can explore the mummies as archaeologists have studied them. In addition, it can zoom in with high resolution to observe very small details such as engravings on the coffin. In particular, visitors can remove each layer of the wrappings to discover the objects buried with them.
“In this project we are working with mummies, but the same methods can of course be used on other large objects, such as natural history objects and other historical artefacts,” says Thomas Rydell of the Swedish Interaction Institute.
The project is being carried out by Swedish researchers, Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm and two technology companies, Autodesk and Faro. The 3D mummy museum exhibition will open in spring 2014.
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