Date: Thursday 8 December 2016
Time: 5.30‒6.30pm
Venue: Woolnough Lecture Theatre, Room 107, Geology and Geography Building, The University of Western Australia
This event celebrates the launch of Emotions3D ‒ a three-dimensional digital heritage resource developed as part of an Associate Investigator project for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Please join Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow for a presentation about three-dimensional digital imaging for museums and the Emotions3D project, and hear short talks about some of the fascinating objects in the collection.
Link to Project Description
About Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
Image: A selection of objects which will appear in the Emotions3D online collection. Clockwise from top left: Wooden toy in the shape of an elephant c.1850 (St Barts’ Museum and Archive); Tortoise-shell and silver heart-shaped box, possibly French c.1750 (Victoria and Albert Museum, metalwork and ceramics collection); Jacobean wedding dress 1742 (Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum); fur hat belonging to serial murderer, William Burke (Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum); the world’s oldest football (Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum); wooden dummy used to demonstrate trephining sites, early 19th C. (St Barts’ Museum and Archive); Stirling Burgh Box, lined with a Book of Hours dating to 1503 (Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum); The Pusey Horn c. 1400‒1450 (Victoria and Albert Museum, metalwork and ceramics collection); Japanese Netsuke figure, date unknown (Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum); iron visored helmet c.1460‒1490 (Victoria and Albert Museum, metalwork and ceramics collection).
