Museums and Scanning Projects in the 3D Archive

Cleveland Museum of Art

USA · 410 models

Open Access sculpture, armor, metalwork, Asian and Greco-Roman art titled with accession numbers; 406 CC0, 23 calibrated views

Minneapolis Institute of Art

USA · 303 models

Sculpture, netsuke, mosaics, Buddhist and Cycladic art scanned in-house (artsmia); 278 calibrated views, 231 CC0

Matsudo City Museum

Japan · 227 models

Jomon pottery and stone tools from Matsudo sites plus the Okui collection of Iranian/Islamic ceramics; Japanese/English titles with catalogue numbers

Archeologiemuseum Huis van Hilde

Netherlands · 213 models

North Holland archaeological finds: skulls, helmets, ceramics, shipwreck objects, animal skeletons; Dutch | English titles with dates; median 41 MB files

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile

Chile · 169 models

Chinchorro mummy, Inca and Mapuche artefacts, El Plomo figurines, dinosaur bones, zoology and shell specimens; 162 CC0

Deutsches Museum

Germany · 159 models

Technology history: Benz Patent-Motorwagen, lunar rover, early computers and consoles, engines, instruments linked to digital.deutsches-museum.de inventory numbers

The Hunt Museum

Ireland · 127 models

Egyptian, Greek, Irish and decorative-art objects with accession numbers and Europeana/Getty vocabulary links; 91 CC0

Badisches Landesmuseum

Germany · 116 models

Prehistoric, ancient Mediterranean and ethnographic objects with bilingual structured metadata (inventory number, dating, find place, material)

Morbase Museu Virtual, Montemor-o-Novo

Portugal · 98 models

Archaeology, medieval portals and towers, and museum objects of Montemor-o-Novo; 54 CC0, 32 calibrated views

Smithsonian Institution

USA · 72 models

Apollo 11 command module, Space Shuttle Discovery, Triceratops, mammoth, sculpture and decorative arts; CC0 with source-data links

Historiska

Sweden · 55 models

Viking-age Birka brooches and axes, medieval sculpture, human remains, Neolithic ceremonial axes with historiska.se links

Scottish Maritime Museum

UK · 53 models

Vessels (MV Spartan, SY Carola), figureheads, steam hammer, boatbuilding; CC0

The National Museum of Antiquities

Netherlands · 47 models

Egyptian statues (Maya and Merit, Raia and Ptah), Taffeh temple, Greek and Roman objects; 44 CC0, 5 calibrated views

Museo [UV] Historia Natural

Spain · 46 models

Bird and mammal skulls, hominid skull casts, fossils and minerals with structured Spanish metadata

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Germany · 45 models

Antiquities, Islamic and East Asian ceramics, masks and reliefs with MKG inventory numbers; 44 CC0

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Porzellansammlung

Germany · 43 models

Chinese and Japanese export porcelain from Augustus the Strong's collection, 3D by ZDF Digital; median 50 MB

Världskulturmuseerna

Sweden · 39 models

Ethnographic objects: Mexican masks, Chinese temple model, Coptic prayer book, Northwest Coast art with Carlotta collection links

Archaeological Museum

Russia · 37 models

Sarmatian burial finds, Bronze Age pots, coins and banknotes from Bashkortostan; Russian/English/German texts

Musée Saint-Raymond

France · 34 models

Roman marble busts from the Villa of Chiragan, bronzes, coins, Greek vases; 31 CC0, 7 calibrated views

Faroe Islands National Museum

Faroe Islands (Denmark) · 34 models

Archaeological sites, chapel ruins, sheep shelters and excavation trenches on Koltur, Mykines, Sandoy; 33 CC0

City Museum Berlin

Germany · 34 models

Museum Village Duppel reconstructed medieval houses plus death masks, busts and sculptures from the collection

Fitzwilliam Museum

UK · 33 models

Sculpture (Gibson's Venus, Rodin hand), antiquities, cloisonne, gallery-room scans; CC-BY

The Watt Institution

UK · 26 models

Taxidermy birds and mammals, moths, fossils, minerals, Samurai helmet

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

USA · 23 models

Dresses, baskets, dentist chair, tombstones and ephemera from the MAH collection

Nordnorsk Fartøyvernsenter og Båtmuseum

Norway · 22 models

Traditional Northern Norwegian boats, cutters and boat models with local-history wiki links

Ball State University Applied Anthropology Laboratories

USA · 3,167 models

Catalogue-numbered lithic points, ceramics and historic artifacts from Ohio/Indiana surveys (COADS, ROI series); titles are catalogue codes, all CC-BY-SA

University of Cincinnati — Tharros Project

USA · 79 models

Excavation stratigraphic-unit photogrammetry from Tharros, Sardinia (2019 season); median 193 MB files

Indiana University Indianapolis Library

USA · 68 models

Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site furnishings and Indianapolis Motor Speedway garage objects

Mathew Randall

UK · 58 models

Laser-scanned police uniforms, helmets and equipment from the West Midlands Police Museum

St. Cloud State University Archives

USA · 42 models

Chinese and Tibetan decorative art from the William Lindgren collection

TECHNÈS

Canada · 33 models

Film cameras, projectors and recorders for the Encyclopedia of Film Techniques; median 196 MB files

AI MAINZ

Germany · 29 models

Source-based reconstruction elements (windows, Aron Hakodesh) of the New Synagogue in Wroclaw/Breslau

Bonn Center for Digital Humanities

Germany · 26 models

Egyptian coffins, Greek and Pre-Columbian vessels, plaster casts from Bonn university collections

WitmerLab at Ohio University

USA · 22 models

CT-based bird, alligator and dinosaur skulls with brain endocasts

Giravolt

Spain · 149 models

Objects and spaces from Catalan museums (Museu Frederic Mares, Museu d'Art Girona, mNACTEC, Vall de Boi Romanesque churches, Seu Vella cloister); trilingual descriptions

Korea Heritage Service

South Korea · 135 models

Game-ready prop reconstructions of Korean heritage (Gyeongbokgung interiors, Mudeungsan columnar joints, thatched houses); modelled assets rather than scans

Erfgoed Gelderland

Netherlands · 76 models

'Sleutelwerken' key objects from Gelderland museums and churches: helmets, tomb monuments, mammoth, church treasures, Roman skulls

LWL-Archaeologie

Germany · 42 models

Numbered highlight finds from Westphalia (Roman legionary helmet, daggers, fibulae, ivory comb) with bilingual find-site metadata; CC0

Institute for Cultural Heritage Preservation Nis

Serbia · 42 models

Vernacular houses, churches and public buildings of SE Serbia (Dimitrovgrad, Vlasina, Knjazevac) recorded for conservation studies

Institutul Național al Patrimoniului

Romania · 27 models

Wooden churches, castles, monasteries and ethnographic costume (Artec scans) from Transylvania and Wallachia

Land of Iron

UK · 25 models

Ironstone-industry remains in Rosedale and Grosmont: kilns, engine beds, railway structures

Korea Culture Information Service Agency

South Korea · 21 models

Traditional buildings: House of Changwon, Jeju government office, thatched houses; Korean-titled

Hillforts and Ancient Sites

Poland · 3,102 models

LiDAR terrain models of hillforts in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the UK with coordinates and register links; median 1.6 MB DEM meshes, not object scans

Virtual Museums of Małopolska

Poland · 1,067 models

Professionally digitised objects from ~40 Małopolska museums: sculpture, folk and sacred art, pharmacy, instruments, natural history, everyday life; 890 CC0

Global Digital Heritage

USA · 577 models

Museum-object scans made for partner institutions: Romanian archaeology museums (Mangalia/Callatis, Targoviste), La Ruta Maya Foundation (Guatemala), Spanish sites; 34 calibrated views

NOE-3D, Lower Austria and Vienna

Austria · 250 models

Public sculptures, memorials, cemetery monuments, animal statues and Roman remains (Heidentor) in Vienna and Lower Austria; 152 CC0

Galway 3D — Digital Heritage Age

Ireland · 141 models

Romanesque doorways, medieval windows, tombstones, castles and lime kilns across Co. Galway with SMR numbers; CC0

Cavan 3D — Digital Heritage Age

Ireland · 82 models

Drumgoon Hill graveyard headstones, wayside crosses and churches with SMR numbers; CC0

Air Digital

Canada · 69 models

Churches, cathedrals, schools and abandoned buildings of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; donation appeals in every description

Northern Heritage Network

Norway / Scotland / Iceland · 49 models

Objects from Timespan (Helmsdale), Finlaggan Trust (Islay) and Icelandic Sarpur collections: creel basket, syphilitic skull, spindle whorls; CC0

Kerry3D DH_Age

Ireland · 31 models

Ogham stones, cross slabs, rock art and statues on the Iveragh and Dingle peninsulas; CC0

Tidvis

Norway · 30 models

Viking boats (Kvalsund ship, Fjortoft boat), Oslo harbour 1798 reconstructions, tools and furniture

AD&D 4D

Spain · 27 models

Archaeological sites, Roman arch, towers and rock-art reproductions of Castellon province; 24 CC0, 6 calibrated views

Gwangju Arts & Culture Humanities Story Platform

South Korea · 27 models

Modelled historic buildings, shops, station and trees of Gwangju

Misiones Coloniales de Chihuahua project

Mexico · 24 models

Colonial churches, missions and Paquime archaeological zone in Chihuahua; 23 CC0, 4 calibrated views

Down 3D — Digital Heritage Age

UK (Northern Ireland) · 21 models

Drumgath graveyard cross-inscribed stones and headstones; CC0

Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre Centre

Poland · 21 models

16th-century coins from Lublin excavations and wooden synagogue reconstructions; tiny files (median 0.2 MB)

artfletch

UK · 685 models

Large interior/exterior photogrammetry of London historic buildings, churches, crypts, tunnels, pubs, WWII sites plus British Museum objects; Historic England listing links

Thomas Flynn

UK · 138 models

Museum-object scans (British Museum, Hallwyl, Rijksmuseum) and optimised re-uploads of other people's CC scans

VIMUNE Berlin Sculpture Project

Germany · 117 models

Berlin public monuments and sculptures (Rauch, Kiss, Begas, Soviet War Memorial) with artist/foundry metadata; median 64 MB files

local.yany

unknown · 102 models

Low-poly hand-painted game props (houses, ruins, shrines, boats); not heritage scans - noise

Roberto Domínguez

Spain · 94 models

Luxury-retail props: Dior-style handbags, shoes, window displays; not heritage - noise

Daniel Pett

UK · 86 models

'Guerrilla' scans of museum objects: British Museum Assyrian reliefs, Ashmolean ram, Freer|Sackler, Peabody; 24 CC0

Sapwood Studio

USA · 80 models

Low-poly modelled early American hand tools after Eric Sloane's book; modelled, not scanned

Arqueomodel3D

Spain · 65 models

World monuments and castles reconstructed from Google Earth / video photogrammetry, some optimised or 3D-printable

3dhdscan

Czech Republic · 62 models

Statues, fountains, engines and unfinished Nazi-era motorway structures around Brno

Aleksei Moskvin

Russia · 61 models

Parametric 3D reconstructions of historical clothing, crinolines and mannequins; modelled from patterns, not scanned

pattarrian

France · 57 models

Sculptures in the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau and public statues in SW France and the Basque country; median 88 MB files

Katie Wolfe

USA · 49 models

Baltimore historic buildings by drone (Penn Station, valve houses, mansions) and a few museum objects

Brian Trepanier

unknown · 47 models

Google-Earth-style landmark extractions (Alhambra, Colosseum) mixed with Lovecraft monsters and Christmas cakes; noise

Azad Balabanian

USA · 46 models

High-quality photogrammetry of Armenian churches, Soviet bus stops, European monasteries and forts

Alice C. Martin

UK · 42 models

2D-to-3D artistic edits of museum objects made for an exhibition; sub-1 MB files

Yanez Designs

unknown · 42 models

Generic props (US money, playing cards, chess, Stargate) with Wikipedia text; noise

Loïc Norgeot

France · 41 models

Retopologised/optimised versions of other people's scans, Blender demos and Breton chapels

megalitharchive

UK · 41 models

Megalithic sites, cairns, caves and standing stones in Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Northern Ireland

Moshe Caine

Israel · 41 models

Museum sculptures (Rijksmuseum, Pergamon casts), Jewish books, Jerusalem models and cameras

Pavel Matousek

Czech Republic · 38 models

Bunkers, statues, synagogue interiors, castles in Czechia plus travel scans (Hue, Florida)

Lassi Kaukonen

Finland · 37 models

Medieval stone churches, log houses, mills, bridges and Paimio Sanatorium in SW Finland

archmixes

unknown · 36 models

Architectural mash-ups of famous modern buildings; sub-1 MB files, not heritage - noise

HoangHiepVu

France · 35 models

Paris public sculptures, Louvre and Versailles statues captured with ContextCapture

Zoilo

Spain · 34 models

Romanesque and Gothic cloisters, vaults, sarcophagi and portals in Spain and France with Clunypedia links

Nate Loper 🗺️ ⛏🏺

USA · 32 models

Google-Earth terrain models of biblical and ancient sites (Sinai, Machu Picchu, Fuji) and a few museum statues

Frank McMains

USA · 32 models

Louisiana abandoned buildings and mounds by drone, Choctaw baskets, ancient coins

Mikhail Volkov

Russia · 32 models

Churches, castles, towers and doors in Russia, Georgia, Austria and London

Jungle Jim

Netherlands · 31 models

Game assets (storefronts, gallows, dragon skull, kitbash scenes); noise

Pigcraft

unknown · 31 models

Fantasy armour, demon knights and stylised ruins; noise

Archéomatique

France · 31 models

Castles, hotels particuliers, mosaics, street art and Musee Saint-Raymond pilasters in France and England

333DDD

unknown · 30 models

Castles and monuments across Europe reconstructed from drone-video photogrammetry

Jon Gray

UK · 29 models

Excavation trenches at Castleton and Gainsborough Old Hall, Pen-y-Gaer hillfort multispectral surveys; median 188 MB files

Igor Denisov

Russia · 28 models

Soviet and Imperial coins, arrowheads, buckles and Bashkortostan monuments

Jerry Fisher

USA · 28 models

Public sculpture in Sioux Falls, Michelangelo replicas, Lincoln Memorial sketch model

swordmanck

unknown · 28 models

PS1-style low-poly weapons and props; noise

Alban Denoyel

USA / France · 27 models

#1scanaday phone scans: street art, museum pieces, Versailles rooms, Times Square sculpture

Nik

Georgia · 27 models

Georgian fortresses, monasteries, monuments and Soviet relics; raw scans

carter oswald

Canada · 27 models

Stratford, Ontario plaques, memorials, city hall and reservoir terrains; date-stamped scans

Shahriar Shahrabi

Germany · 26 models

Persepolis carvings, Portuguese monasteries and castles, Cologne Cathedral, Berlin memorials

seirogan

Japan · 26 models

iPhone LiDAR scans of Tokyo temples, bells, shrines and old houses

Benjamin Bardou

France · 25 models

Louvre Coustou marbles scanned for a short film; mostly low-definition versions

LZCreation

Belgium · 25 models

Castles from Google Earth photogrammetry and museum statues

AspectStudios

unknown · 25 models

Low-poly medieval props (market stall, gallows, guillotine); noise

carlos faustino

Portugal · 24 models

Azulejo tile panels, palaces (Pena, Ajuda), train stations and fountains

Andy Woodhead

UK · 22 models

Modelled reconstructions of Roman/medieval London and 3D-printable figures; game assets

skibidi

unknown · 21 models

Skibidi Toilet meme models; noise

Francesco Coldesina

Italy · 21 models

Optimised low-poly versions of other people's scans (Ganesh, bells, masks)

re1monsen

unknown · 21 models

Game-ready props and retopologised sculptures (Nefertiti, Discobolus)

MWintersberger

Austria · 21 models

XR workshop outputs, point clouds and Open Brush sketches around the Krahuletz-Museum

Michael.Lohr

USA · 21 models

Boulder County historic barns, cabins and mills by drone

Calin Suteu

Romania · 21 models

Alba Iulia cathedral chapels and Transylvanian church frescoes

rookwoodgothica

Australia · 21 models

Rookwood Cemetery (Sydney) headstones, memorials and Chinese shrine

pierre391

France · 20 models

Castles, bridges, tunnels in the Jura and Dordogne, some from YouTube video

Sereib

unknown · 20 models

Modelled fantasy/medieval castles, towers and bridges; noise

3Dystopia

France · 20 models

Paris statues and fountains, Nepal heritage, Herstmonceux castle with LODs