When Digital hits the Museum

Experiences in our Museum with 3D
Rüdiger Kelm, Steinzeitpark Albersdorf, Germany

The Stone Age Park Dithmarschen in Albersdorf (Germany) is an archaeological open-air museum focussing on the Stone Age. It consists of an outdoor park area of about 40 hectares. This includes archaeological monuments, reconstructed Mesolithic, and Neolithic buildings and a recently opened museum building with an exhibition of original artifacts.
Like in any other museum our challenge is to save and document information, especially practical work techniques and craft skills, in a sustainable way for future museum generations. Because of the evolving questions of this perspective the Stone Age Park joined Retold in 2020.
In our day-to-day business, we have no time to document, digitise and share the stories of our buildings, crafts, and such. Every step in this process was new for us, starting with the communication and data storage until the advanced creation of 3D-models of our buildings.
Especially the 3D-models work as a perfect stage for sharing information about a building, whether you are standing inside it or if you are anywhere else in the world.
For example, if our maintenance staff has this model on their tablet, they can walk through the house and make notes in the 3D model about repairs needed.
In the presentation it will be shown all the steps we had to solve as a smaller museum for the possibility to create 3D-models of our House reconstructions, from getting the hardware, learning to work with the software, creating 3D-models in real, use and publish them and spread this knowledge to other museums.

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