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.
Four places online where history is not just for reading: explore, experiment, play.
A Baroque painter from Ovelgönne, deaf, widely traveled and long forgotten. Follow his trail across a map, discover the play of light and dark and grind your own paint.
To the station
Drag the lamp, the water globe and the workpiece and see how a glass flask focuses light. Every ray is calculated individually according to the law of refraction.
Start the simulator
Nine exhibits, nine hands-on stories: knead dough, forge hot metal, weigh sacks and collect stamps. Ideal on your phone in front of the object, but works from home too.
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Two sisters from Ovelgönne, two pen names, one quill. Unmask the pseudonyms, leaf through a whole book, write with quill and typewriter and test your knowledge.
To the stationOur 3D digitisation department was ceremonially opened in December 2023 and is unique in the Wesermarsch region. We are proud that a small museum is leading the way here, and we are happy to share our knowledge: do you have questions about 3D digitisation?
It was made possible by the generous support of LEADER “Wesermarsch in Bewegung” as main funder, the EWE-Stiftung and the Foundation for Art and Culture of Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg (LzO).
Archive, audio, video and a look ahead: a modern digital museum is taking shape here in the Wesermarsch, step by step.
Explore our digital collection: historic craft tools and everyday objects from the Wesermarsch, searchable and described. The collection pages are currently in German.
History to listen to and watch: exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses, workshop documentaries and conversations with contemporary witnesses from the region.
360-degree panoramas through all exhibition rooms, from the smithy to the joinery. A video tour is already available on YouTube.
Cultural 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 preparationOur 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.
To the memory boardDo 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.
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