VIRTUAL REALITY TOOLKIT

START HERE & GO DIGITAL

Digital transformation for Museums and Heritage Organisations starts here. In order to enhance digital literacy and virtual capacity for custodians of collections, the VIRTUAL REALITY TOOLKIT serves as a platform to find resources and examples to mitigate the challenges in the uptake of technologies and aid in the success of embedding new ideas into a virtual experience.

It is anticipated that by adding new digital dimensions to museum and heritage organisations this will significantly add to the user experience – leading to beneficial impact on visitor footfall and the local economies.

FREE RESOURCES & GUDES

Check how to work with organisations across a range of digital projects including developing digital reconstructions of historical events and sites; digital mapping; creating 3D digital representations of historical collections to exhibit virtually; mobile phone apps to enable customers to turn mobile devices into mini virtual museums; creating digital film; on-line exhibitions, and using creative content to enhance on-line presence.

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CUPIDO intends to strengthen a viable and sustainable future economy, based on the social historic role and core qualities and values of the involved regions, cities and local communities.

Presented below is a curated collection of highlights from the CUPIDO project. The online exhibitions and virtual tours utilise a series of transnational digital heritage skills presented to local institutions via CUPIDO workshops.

Presenting various museum collections, historical archives and photographs, virtual reconstructions, virtual tours and videos, these exhibits exemplify the powerful role of digital transformation in opening up a non-stop access to collections making them inclusive and digitally preserved.

The virtual exhibitions comprise virtual tours built on spherical media with pop-up windows, highlights galleries with 2D and 3D digital surrogates, media featuring tangible and intangible heritage, and hot spot maps. Virtual exhibits offer fresh perspectives on cultural heritage and give new life to collections through the interactive engagement of various communities and new audiences.

With dance, storytelling and modern technology, Rottneros mansion, in Sunne, lit up in the spectacular facade show Light without Borders onSaturday 4 September 2021. Video mapping and visual effects, synchronized with dance and storytelling, make for a magical and spectacular experience!

Dance students from Sunne Kulturskola and theatre students from Unga Västanå tell a fairy tale from Värmland in interaction with the visual projection on the manor façade. Inspired by Selma Lagerlöf’s immortal stories. The story comes to life, dressed in new language.

The ICOM AVICOM awarded Virtual Orkney North Isles is one of the mediums created to build a shared exhibit virtual platform. The galleries and virtual tours are available online, displaying the heritage of all six isles so that Orkney communities and users from around the world can virtually explore and compare the beauty of remote Orkney Northern Islands’ natural and cultural legacy. Simultaneously, a touch screen and VR set (not dependent on internet coverage) showcasing the virtual exhibits have been placed on-site in the heritage centres in Orkney North Isles. The videos and audio used for the menu system reflect the unique atmosphere and climate determined by Orkney’s natural elements, such as wind, ocean, sea birds, and the ancient native Orkney sheep.

INTERACTIVE MAPS

Interactive maps featured on this page emphasise relationships between project partners and regions, their heritage assets, and digital products created by the CUPIDO project.

HOW TO USE IT

The interactive maps feature multiple layers assigned to various categories marked with attributed icons. You can use a map with multiple markers and show and hide them by clicking the REFRESH button and then the Filter by Layer menu.

MAP CONTENT

Alternatively, you can browse the curated collection of maps which has been categorised into specific topics. Relevant locations are linked to engaging media, so you can explore variety of CUPIDO digital resources such as texts, images, videos, audio, 3D collections, and virtual tours.

CREATE YOUR MAP

You can also create your interactive map using CUPIDO Virtual Reality Toolkit.

GETTING STARTED WITH TOOLKIT

In response to the impact of Covid-19, CUPIDO European Interreg cultural heritage project has collaborated with XpoNorth Heritage to hold a programme of eight online digital skills workshops aimed at the Heritage sector and facilitated by Open Virtual Worlds at the University of St Andrews.

Inspired by the #museumathome, #cultureathome and #heritageathome, this series of workshops will help and support heritage volunteers, professionals, and organisations to connect audiences with both cultural and natural heritage. The workshops are free and open to all. Explore the resources above to create your virtual cultural assets.

Virtual Tours

Virtual Galleries

Social Media

Heritage Maps

Live Social Media

Virtual Reality

Creative Commons

Virtual Museums

CUPIDO: Culture Power. Inspire to Develop Rural Areas

Cupido started on the 1st of September 2018. The project’s overall objective was to develop new business opportunities in the cultural and cultural heritage sector around the North Sea, to reinforce the economic position, competitiveness and social cohesion of local rural communities in areas with a declining population. CUPIDO intends to strengthen a viable and sustainable future economy, based on the social historic role and core qualities and values of the involved regions, cities and local communities.

The partnership had 14 partners from 7 regions in 6 countries around the North Sea. All in regions with an ageing population, due to both urbanisation and changing demography, and with municipalities that struggle to maintain a basic level of services and common functions. The new approach is to lift forward culture as a driver in local & regional development policies and to explore its potential. Culture in the context of CUPIDO is cultural activities (art, dance, music) as well as cultural heritage.

The project’s overall objective is to develop new business opportunities in the cultural and cultural heritage sector around the North Sea, to reinforce the economic position, competitiveness and social cohesion of local rural communities in areas with a declining population. The project intends to strengthen a viable and sustainable future economy, based on the social historic role and core qualities and values of the involved regions, cities and local communities.