Photogrammetry and 3D Modeling at Strawbery Banke Museum

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Strawbery Banke Museum is a living history museum in Portsmouth, NH that features historic buildings and curates a wide range of archaeological artifacts. This poster will demonstrate a collaboration with the museum and the University of New Hampshire’s CatLAB to create 3D models of artifacts and historic spaces at the museum utilizing photogrammetry, where a software processes overlapping photographs to form a 3D model. 3D modeling provides for greater accessibility to artifacts from legacy collections and to historic spaces and archaeological excavations that individuals may be unable to access in-person. Such modeling also provides a venue to collect and demonstrate the stages of museum-based archaeological investigations and how this transfers to historical interpretation and preservation by bringing together in one, digitally-accessible, visual mode of interaction the archaeological excavation and artifact reconstruction which guides the interpretation and reconstruction of historic buildings on the museum’s grounds.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• 2024 SHA Poster Submissions

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