3D scans, interactive time travel, an AI curator and real participation activities. The Crafts Museum Ovelgönne digital – accessible anytime, anywhere and for everyone.
Using handheld 3D scanners and photogrammetry (RealityScan), we create digital twins of our exhibits – precise to the millimetre and preserved for the long term.
Each object is scientifically recorded, enriched with metadata and entered into international cultural heritage databases.
As an interactive 3D scan, QR code in the museum, open-access download or AI-supported curator – knowledge belongs to everyone.
From interactive time travel to open-access downloads – a modern digital museum is being created here in the Wesermarsch.
Turn the wheel of history: 650 years of regional history on an interactive map with historic photographs and stories.
Start the time journeyPhotogrammetry and handheld 3D scanners transform our exhibits into highly precise digital twins – rotatable, zoomable, preserved for eternity.
View demoWe are systematically digitising and cataloguing our entire collection. Free access to the scientific object database is coming soon.
Coming soon360-degree panoramas through all exhibition rooms – from the smithy to the joinery. A video tour is already available on YouTube.
YouTube tourCultural heritage belongs to all of us. High-resolution images, 3D models and research data will soon be available as Linked Open Data for free use.
In preparationHistory to listen to and watch: exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses, workshop documentaries and conversations with contemporary witnesses from the region.
YouTube channelOur specially developed interactive timeline makes 650 years of regional history tangible. Turn the wheel of time and dive into historic maps, old photographs and forgotten stories – from the beginnings in the year 1368 to the present day.
With thematic filters, a linked object database and historic map material of the Wesermarsch. Don't just read history – experience it.
Start the Time CrankHistory is not made in archives alone. It lives in family photographs, in old tools in the attic, in memories no one has written down yet. Get involved.
Do you have an old craft object, tool or everyday item from the Wesermarsch region? We will digitise it and add it to our collection.
Contact us nowDo you have photographs, documents or a story from the region? Family memories about crafts, agriculture or life in Ovelgönne are priceless.
Send your storyDo you remember the crafts, everyday life or the people of the past? Your interview will become part of our digital memory of the region.
Offer a conversationVote and help decide what we digitise next.
Your vote counts. We will choose the object with the most votes for the next scan day.
At over 30 exhibits in the museum you will find small QR codes. A scan with your smartphone opens in-depth information, historic photographs, audio examples and, for some objects, even the interactive 3D scan – free of charge and without downloading an app.
Our collection is part of national and European cultural heritage. As digitisation progresses, our objects will be findable in these systems.
National cultural portal with over 45 million objects from archives, libraries and museums.
In preparationEurope's central digital cultural heritage portal with over 50 million objects from 3,000 institutions.
In preparationThe central German-language object database specifically for museums – open, networked, free of charge.
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