Read more about The Last Giraffe of Walworth on the Southwark Heritage Blog
We’ve been doing some more 3D scanning, this time for the Cuming Museum – a museum based in South London, UK.
Interested in exploring new ways to engage people with the museum’s collection, Judy Aitkin, Heritage Manager for Southwark, contacted Museum in a Box about the possibilities of producing “something 360” for their re-vamped website.
We were, of course, happy to help and paid a visit to their stores to take some 1600 photos of 10 objects from across the museum’s collection…
A Museum With No Public Premises
The Cuming Museum is an interesting case in Museumland – it’s a museum that (currently) has no physical premises. No galleries, no cloakroom, no café – all of these were the unfortunate victims of a fire in 2013 that severely damaged the lovely red brick Town Hall building on Walworth Road that housed the Cuming family collection and artefacts relating to the history of the Borough of Southwark.
Despite not currently having a physical museum to manage, Judy and her team are doing a great job keeping the Museum’s audience up to date via the Southwark Heritage website, Twitter, Pinterest and blog as well as through regular heritage events.
Visit the Cuming Museum’s Sketchfab profile to explore some pretty amazing objects and even download them to use for non-commercial projects!
If you work at a museum or heritage institution and are interested in learning how to make 3D scans or need something scanned, please get in touch.
T.