Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: From 3D Modeling to the Engagement of Young Generations

Monitoring, digitizing and archiving museum artworks represent an important socio-cultural accomplishment and an overcoming in digital preservation to-day. Cultural heritage is constantly under threat of terrorist attacks and natu-ral disaster. The high costs related to documentation task have prevented a constantly and massive survey activity. The low cost 3D image based acqui-sition and elaboration techniques of an object, allow to carry out a 3D photo-realistic model in a short time. Therefore, a lot of museum adopted these techniques for the artworks archiving. Crowdsourcing activities can signifi-cantly speed up survey and elaboration procedures. If, on the one hand, these initiatives can have a positive impact, on the other hand involve the online user with a marginal role. In this paper we demonstrate how it is ap-propriate thinking the museum visitor as “museum operator/maker” of the digital model overstepping the outcomes achieved so far.