The digitisation of museum collections for research, management and enhancement of tangible and intangible heritage

This research project aims to define a new methodology that employs Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools, normally used in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, in an unconventional manner, to create 3D databases for small objects: those belonging to museum collections inaccessible to the public. The project will develop a methodology to virtually reproduce 3D objects through the integration of geometric and alphanumeric information. The new procedure will exploit some different levels of knowledge concerning objects in a museum: research, data management, setting up of virtual communication platforms, applying it to some objects that are a part of the collection of the Egyptian museum in Turin.