German Hologram Exhibition

3D Scanning Museum Artefacts for Holographic Display

The Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold is a regional history and natural history museum in North Rhine-Westphalia. We worked with the museum to scan objects from their collection for display through holographic exhibition technology… a different brief from film work, but the same underlying discipline.

We used structured-light scanning and photogrammetry to capture the artefacts, producing high-resolution textured meshes that hold up at the fidelity a large-format holographic display demands. A photograph gives you one angle. A scan gives you the whole object… which is the point of a holographic display in the first place: visitors can walk around a piece as if it were in front of them, not just looking at a picture of it.

Deliverables were built to the museum’s display system spec, with mesh density and texture resolution tuned for real-time holographic rendering without losing the detail that makes the original worth looking at closely.

Heritage and cultural work isn’t the loudest part of what we do, but it’s some of the most satisfying… a fragile or significant object gets a permanent, precise digital record, and a museum gets a way to show it that a glass case never could. We bring the same accuracy to a 400-year-old artefact that we bring to a film set, because the standard doesn’t change just because the audience does.