5Dculture aims at widening the offer of existing 3D digital cultural heritage repositories and incite their re-use in education, tourism and multi-faceted cultural and creative sectors. We have worked on the Europeana repository, at the heart of the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage, to enrich the portal’s digital collections with a significant amount of 3D assets, fostering their reuse.

The project delivered high-quality 3D content by identifying and engaging existing datasets from partners’ collections, focusing on fashion, archaeology, and architecture—central themes in Europe’s vast cultural heritage; it has also developed several reuse scenarios to experiment with the aforementioned assets in their complexity across the specific domains: Fashion Collections, exploring the creation of more engaging and immersive museum experiences for fashion heritage (under the coordination of EFHA); Archaeological 3D Content, enhancing visitors’ experience of archaeological monuments through 3D content, and assessing its value in different sectors such as tourism, education, gaming, the arts, conservation, and heritage management; Historic Buildings and Cityscapes, providing scenarios, content, and tools for creating 3D applications focused on historic buildings and cityscapes, enabling virtual cultural tourism, research, and education.

The project facilitates the management, enrichment, and reuse of 3D content by deploying digital technologies and tools, including AI and semantic technologies. It also creates and promotes capacity-building materials and activities to equip cultural heritage institutions with the necessary knowledge and skills to enhance the wider reuse of their 3D cultural assets.

The consortium consists of highly skilled organizations with expertise in the principles and strategy of the newly established European Data Space for cultural heritage. EFHA coordinated the fashion pilots on the virtual fitting room from the collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht, and on the social VR exhibition at the Netherland Institute for Sound & Vision.