RETOLD News

In September, the six RETOLD partners met in Germany. With a little over 12 months to go, we realised there were some issues. Our biggest challenge is to make an app which works for open-air museums. The technique on the one side must fit with the museum reality on the other. Actually, we have to dive from the museums into the technique, and back again! So, where the museums know what they want out of this product, our struggle...

In the museum village Düppel (Berlin, Germany), we are currently carrying out a structural damage assessment to evaluate the condition of our reconstructed houses. The 13 houses were built using methods from experimental archaeology, in the years between 1976 and 2008 according to the model of medieval farmhouses. Care was taken to retain the floor plans of the houses found during excavations and to rebuilt the reconstructed houses in their ...

RETOLD will last four years only. In December 2022, the third year commenced. We did a lot, but ended the year, knowing which challenges were left unsolved. In January 2023 the accountant who will do the final audit / reporting of the project (EXARC part) had a look at the first two project years. We wanted to be sure that the system is clear, that all the files can be found and are properly connected to the reporting form...

With the RETOLD project approaching its last year and our product (the App for documenting) expected to be ready by March 2024, we decided to design a communication plan until the end of the project. Through all platforms and by reaching our audience and target groups, we provide weekly explanations about the project, its necessity and the app. We will show various aspects, which will make it interesting for many...

During the RETOLD conference at Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen (September 2023), XYZ Technical Art Services as part of RETOLD partner Nuwa Digital Ltd continued their series of photogrammetry training sessions for museum partners who want to digitally capture their museum inventory.

During the workshop, volunteers and museum staff gained hands-on experience of taking photos suitable for photogrammetry...

It has been a busy year for the RETOLD project. We work with documenting, digitising and sharing stories of open-air museums. After having met in the ASTRA museum in Sibiu, Romania, in spring 2023, and in Museumsdorf Düppel in Berlin, Germany, in summer, we met in Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen, Germany in early autumn.  But there is much to be done. The six RETOLD partners met in the true north of Germany to discuss progress of our tool which...

EXARC is looking for a few open-air museums willing to test our new app in the coming weeks. The app is to document buildings: you mostly use photos and a sequence of questions for the initial setting up of a house, which then is followed by for example notes on maintenance. In the end, this app is meant to manage a digital documentation of the stories of both archaeological open-air museums and historical, skansen-type, open-air museums. 

In Retold partners develop a method for open-air museums to document, digitise and share their stories. One of the avenues is that we create 3D models of the houses in these museums. These models are then dressed with all kinds of information. Our specialists from Nuwa Ltd have developed most of our approach. Early July, they visited Museumsdorf Düppel in Berlin, Germany for a photogrammetry training...

We constructed an early prototype utilising 3D models as a way of anchoring and annotating observational data of buildings that museums wanted to capture. This solved the problem of creating or procuring 2D drawings, plans or photographs of buildings from all perspectives, and then relating the captured data points to the visuals. Since this feature necessitated museums’ access to 3D models of their inventory...

On Tuesday, March 28th, during meeting at Sibiu, Cordula Hansen and Shay Gilna (NUWA) led a session “Introduction to Photogrammetry”. The aim of the workshop was to introduce participants to accessible, practical ways of documenting buildings, objects and environments as 3D models using current mobile and desktop applications. The exercise will help museum partners develop the skills to prepare data for the - as of yet un-named - RETOLD documentation app...