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Making Of: 3D Digitalization at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna

Making Of: 3D Digitalization at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna

Carina Neischl Volkskundemuseum Wien)

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Kulturpool breaks the two million mark

With impressive 3D digital copies from the Volkskundemuseum Wien (Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art), kulturpool.at has recently made more than two million objects accessible.

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Matthäus Kern: Schwimmunterricht in der Militärschwimmschule im Prater

Matthäus Kern: Schwimmunterricht in der Militärschwimmschule im Prater

Wien Museum

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Here you will find a list of frequently asked questions about Kulturpool, the central search portal for digitized cultural heritage in Austria.

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Kulturpool celebrates the first birthday since its relaunch in 2024

Kulturpool celebrates the first birthday since its relaunch in 2024

NHM Wien, W. Bauer-Thell

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Kulturpool at the NHM Wien Makes 1.6 Million of Digital Copies Accessible Online – and the Work Has Only Just Begun

Kulturpool at the NHM Wien Makes 1.6 Million of Digital Objects Accessible Online – and the Work Has Only Just Begun

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Key facts

Kulturpool is a non-profit, educational, artistic, and scientific search portal and a service centre for the transfer of knowledge and skills for the digitally available cultural heritage of Austrian collections.

Partner institutions: Private and public museums, archives, collections, libraries, as well as humanities, cultural, and natural sciences databases.

Europeana: Kulturpool is the official national aggregator for Europeana, the European platform for digital cultural heritage.

Go-live of the portal: 14 March 2024

Institutions:

  • by November 2025, more than 100 institutions are visible in Kulturpool
  • by the end of 2026, over 150 institutions

Digital objects:

  • by November 2025, over 2 million digitised objects available
  • by the end of 2026, around 3 million objects (projection)
  • over 10 million objects expected by 2028

Service centre: Offers knowledge transfer via a knowledge database, regular webinars and online cafes for partner institutions, as well as a knowledge forum and other events & workshops.

Implementation: The search portal is part of the "Kulturerbe digital" strategy of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS)/(BMWKMS since April 2025) and is being realised at the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM).

Strategic advisory board: Ten experts from the field of digitalisation, law, ethics, and arts and culture. Learn more about the board.

News from the partner institutions

3D-Scan: digital twins at the NHM Vienna
Austrian tv program “Mayrs Magazin” reports on 3D digitization at the Natural History Museum and the Kulturpool.

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New partner institution: Austrian Film Museum
As a new partner in the Kulturpool, the Austrian Film Museum has been presenting highlights from its collections on the central portal for digitised cultural heritage from Austrian museums, archives and libraries since September.

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The OeAI now new to the Kulturpool
Starting in September, the Austrian Archaeological Institute will be part of Kulturpool – a central online portal that provides digital access to Austria's cultural heritage. More than one million objects from museums, libraries, and archives are already available to the public there in the form of images, texts, audio files, videos, and 3D models.

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Newly arrived: Medieval manuscripts from Tyrol
As part of the ‘Libri Stamsenses’ project, more than 300 medieval manuscripts from the collection of the Cistercian Abbey of Stams have been digitised. This unique cultural heritage is now available online. This means that the ULB Tirol is also represented in the Kulturpool with a significant contribution.

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Newly arrived: Heiligenkreuz collections
Austria is home to a particularly large number of Cistercian monasteries that have been preserved over the centuries. The Heiligenkreuz Abbey and its collections are now also represented on the Kulturpool.

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660,000 digitised items from the holdings of the Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library is one of the main contributors to Kulturpool. These include out-of-copyright works such as books and prints published after 1501, but also around 500 manuscripts on the history of the Jesuits, for example.

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