District Museum in Tarnów
Inventory number:
MT-E/3270
interwar period (after 1918), Poland

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/1344

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Marcin Solarz

Violin

Enigma machines were designed to create complex coded messages that were almost impossible to crack. Throughout the Second World War, Germany and its allies used Enigma machines on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky and in their secret services to send military messages. The Germans considered the Enigma code to be unbreakable, but mathematicians in Poland, France and the UK developed advanced techniques that broke the Enigma code, helping to shorten the war. Today mathematics is at the heart of all computer security – as well as attempts to break it.

*Enhanced digitisation funded by Samsung, founding partner of the Science Museum Group Digital Lab.*

Enigma machine, 1934

Raw scan made on cinema movie projector that is standing in Kijów Centrum Cimena in Kraków, Poland
It was used for 35mm tape. Produced in the 1961 by Łódzkie Zakłady Kinotechniczne in Poland. The projector was designed for cinemas with rooms up to 1000 seats. It was then one of the most popular models used in Polish cinemas

The projector was equipped with an aspherical mirror with a diameter of 356 mm and a focal length of 120 mm. The standard lens provided by the manufacturer was Polkinar 1.8 / 100

The basic equipment of the projector was an optical sound reading system with two exposure bulbs - one in the working position, the other one in reserve (both fixed in the rotating holder, which allowed for exchange without interrupting the projection). In addition, the projector could be equipped with a 4-channel magnetic sound pickup

The projector was powered by a three-phase asynchronous motor. The engine was started using an automatic starter.
https://youtu.be/-xr1BMyKNWI
MusicInfo: Piano by AShamaluevMusic

Cinema Movie Projector AP5 - 1961

Full name: **Seventeenth-century Italian hydria apothecary vase**

A hydria-type apothecary maiolica vase created in Savona (Italy) in the late 17th century. Handles in the shape of (fantastic) animal heads on massive bent necks. At the front, towards the bottom of the vase, a gargoyle in relief. Plugged with regular cork, its mouth doubles as an opening for pouring out the contents of the vase. Smaller gargoyles, without any openings, located under the handles, alongside the vase.

Exhibit from the collection of apothecary ceramics donated to the Museum in 1976 by Mateusz Bronisław Grabowski, a Polish-British, London-based pharmacist.

**For more images and further information, visit:** https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/577

Inventory number: KGZ 5919

Localisation of the physical object: Pharmacy Museum, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project**

Hydria apothecary vase

Zalipie, a village in southern Poland, is most famous for its folk art. Local artists have been covering houses in traditional floral motifs, a custom with roots back in the 18th century, when housekeepers would lighten sooty interiors of their huts by covering them with limewash. Through the 19th century the practice evolved into a habit of decorating cottages - both on the inside and on the outside - with colorful painted ornaments. The tradition has been kept up in the 20th century by dedicated artists like Felicja Curyłowa (1904-1974) and - thanks to her and her followers - to this day we can admire unique local art, and house painting contests are still held to support this live tradition. The 3D model was created based on one of the oldest, finest examples of a Zalipie painted house.

Workflow Video: https://youtu.be/HIyd0rxIFBk

RealityCapture:1270 photos 
MusicInfo: Horses to Water - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena

Painted house - Zalipie in southern Poland

Windmill from the village of Bogdanka near Juchnowiec (Podlasie) from 1945 translocated to the open-air museum of the Podlasie folk-cultural museum located in Wasilkow. The object is a 27-hectare area, on which more than 30 wooden objects were located.

Windmill type: wood dutch.

It is one of three objects that we have scanned together with Monika Urbańczyk at the Museum of Folk Culture. This is also my first approach to scan an object of this size.
Used: Canon 5dsr, Sigma art lens 50mm, monopod


Created in RealityCapture by Capturing Reality from 362 images in
18h:17m:05s.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/20wLa

Windmill from the village of Bogdanka, Poland

Sculpted by Pierre Franqueville (Pietro Francavilla, Petrus a Francvilla), the statuette is one of the three models recorded in the collection of the Jagiellonian Library as early as 1783. Pietro Francavilla (1547–1615) was a Franco-Flemish sculptor who worked in Italy.

Écorché models were widely used by artists to practice drawing and to improve their knowledge of the human body.

Our 3D model is featured in the photorealistic 2022 Unity teaser for "Enemies" [https://youtu.be/eXYUNrgqWUU?t=20](http://), a long-anticipated digital project: [https://unity.com/demos/enemies](http://)

**For more images and further information, visit:** https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2850

Localisation of the physical object: Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius, Kraków, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project**

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Marcin Solarz

Anatomical figure – écorché

ca. 1500, Kraków, Poland, Hungary

An exceptionally valuable monument of sacred goldsmiths from the treasury of the Miechów monastery (Poland), which has survived to our times, is the richly decorated late-gothic silver chalice with a six-leaf foot. It is assumed that it was created around 1500, perhaps in a workshop in Hungary or in the capital city of Krakow. There are precious stones on the base of the chalice: sapphire, amethyst, ruby and emerald. In the upper part of the foot, figures of the Virgin Mary and an unknown saint are visible.

**For more images and further information, visit:** 
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2979

Inventory number:  MZM/D/S/63

The Museum of Ziemia Miechowska in Miechów

**Regional Digitalisation Lab, MIK, Visiting Museums of Małopolska project** 

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Wojciech Szczekan

Gothic chalice

**For more images and further information, visit:** https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2250

Inventory number: MP 045

Localisation of the physical object: Krystyna and Włodzimierz Tomek Natural Science Museum in Ciężkowice, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project**

Lekking ruffs

Eugène Bourdon (1808–1884) – artist / maker ca. 1835, Paris

A nineteenth-century model of the Watt steam engine. It allowed to demonstrate the principle of the steam engine’s operation by mechanically turning a flywheel and connecting the machinery to an external source of steam or compressed gas.

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2763

Inventory number: 4988; 993/V

Localisation of the physical object: Jagiellonian University Museum, Collegium Maius, Kraków, Poland

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project

3D model & animation by Stanisław Ogarek as a diploma work at Tischner European University.

Model of the Watt Steam Engine with animation

Historic wooden church in Trzęsówka, Subcarpathia, Poland.

From Wikipedia:
The church was built in 1759 as a court chapel of the Kuczkowski family. It originally bore the invocation of St. John the Evangelist. In 1778 it became a branch church. From 1788 it became the parish church of the newly-established parish of Saint Anne.

In 1903 the nave was lengthened by 9 meters, the roof was covered with galvanized sheet metal, and a side chapel and a granary were added. The wooden floor was replaced with cement board flooring, and the square windows were replaced with arched ones. In 1905, the interior was plastered, polychrome was laid, the altars were restored, the organ and the fence were repaired. A new organ was purchased in 1960. The altars were renovated in 1976, and the polychrome in 1977.

The building served as a parish church until 2004, when a new temple was put into use. On April 7, 2004 it was entered in the register of monuments

Historic wooden church

Extra low-poly residential building from the city of Rzeszów, Poland.

Absolute optimization, ideal for background scenes. As well texture can be compressed up to 1k resolution.

[High-datailed version](https://skfb.ly/oOoTY)

Polish modern housing estate (lite)

Zalipie, a village in southern Poland, is most famous for its folk art. Local artists have been covering houses in traditional floral motifs, a custom with roots back in the 18th century, when housekeepers would lighten sooty interiors of their huts by covering them with limewash. Through the 19th century the practice evolved into a habit of decorating cottages - both on the inside and on the outside - with colorful painted ornaments. The tradition has been kept up in the 20th century by dedicated artists like Felicja Curyłowa (1904-1974) and - thanks to her and her followers - to this day we can admire unique local art, and house painting contests are still held to support this live tradition. The 3D model shows an extraordinary example of a painted interior and was created based on an exhibition room in Dom Malarek (Painters’ House) in Zalipie, a cultural center that promotes traditional Zalipie folk art.

Reality Capture: 833 photos in 6 hours overall processing time
Music: Morning Mood by Grieg

Zalipie | House of Painters | Slavic Interior

Krzyżtopór (Polish pronunciation: [kʂɨʂˈtɔpur]) is a castle located in the village of Ujazd, Iwaniska commune, Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It was originally built by a Polish nobleman and Voivode of Sandomierz, Krzysztof Ossoliński (1587–1645). The castle was partially destroyed during the Swedish invasion known as The Deluge in 1655, and then reduced to ruin during the war of the Bar Confederation by the Russians in 1770.  wikipedia

coordinates: 50.713900, 21.310600

photogrammetry from video

Krzyztopor Castle  -RAWscan

Sculpture of a Roman gladiator

**A 3D model of an eighteenth-century bronze sculpture created by Pius Weloński (1849–1931).**

This figurative, whole-body sculpture depicts a Roman gladiator with an upraised arm. The pedestal bears the following inscription: Ave Caesar! Morituri, salutant [Long live Caesar! Those who are going to die greet you]. The gladiator is – judging by his props – most likely a retiarius [net-fighter]. He fought with a trident or harpoon made of tuna bones, a dagger, and a net that he threw at his opponent’s head.

**For more images and further information, visit**: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/21

Inventory number: MNK II-rz-340

Location of the physical object: National Museum in Kraków, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project.**

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Marcin Solarz

Sculpture of a Roman gladiator

Model of a real train station in Nieborowice, Poland.
Created in Blender, textured in Substance Painter with my custom materials.

If you used this model in your project, please let me know :)

Original location: https://goo.gl/maps/ZKS99MWLuSy5taGp9

Train Station - Nieborowice, Poland

8th century, Poland
Wawel Royal Castle – National Art Collection

A Hussar szyszak was a type of helmet commonly used by the troops of the Polish Hussars, similar to the pappenheimers used in Western Europe. Usually, it was decorated similarly to the Hussar armour – with trimmings and appliqué motifs of brass stamped with geometrical ornaments. There were a few variants of this helmet: with a tip on the top, a high crest, or fan-like wings on the skull (the latter was popular in the 1st half of the 18th century, during the Saxon’s reign).

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/1253
Localisation of the physical object: Wawel Royal Castle – National Art Collection

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Marcin Solarz

Hussar helmet

The railway signal box "Bt", located in Bytom is one of the few preserved overhead signal boxes in Poland. It was built in the 1930s and gained its current form after a rebuilding that likely took place in the 1970s. Due to the modernization of the Bytom station, it was taken out of service in 2022. 

The building has since been renovated, but I decided to recreate it in its pre-renovation state, as it offers a great opportunity to develop my texturing skills. To achieve the best possible result, this time I decided to use a higher texel density (3px/cm instead of 1-1.5px), and I carefully recreated the peeling paint entirely by hand. Working on this model taught me not to be overly perfectionistic and to know when to say “stop” — because trust me, you could keep tweaking the details forever!

Railway Signal Box - Bytom, Poland

1915, Świątniki Górne, Poland
The Marcin Mikuła Locksmithing Museum in Świątniki Górne

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/130

The presented box is the so-called putnia box. It was designed for carrying padlocks by salesmen called putniorze. They walked from village to village with putnia boxes on their backs and they sold famous products of padlock makers from Świątniki Górne. Such boxes were closed from above with a wooden lid by means of a staple and, of course, a padlock. On the sides of a putnia were metal handles for comfortable handling when raising and putting it on the back. A padlock box had sackcloth straps, often fastened together while carrying to facilitate movement.

RDW MIC, Małopolska’s Virtual Museums project

3D Model  elaboratione done by Stanisław Ogarek

"Putnia" box

The horn of Salt Diggers Brotherhood of Wieliczka is a unique Renaissance work of art commemorating the past wealth of Kraków salt mines. It is the only historical object of its kind preserved in Poland – a genuine horn of the aurochs, an ancestor of present-day cattle (the species became extinct in Poland in the 17th century). Framed in silver, it features a number of precisely executed metalwork techniques. Weighing almost 3 kilos, it was created in Kraków in 1534. The figure shown in the horn’s base is a salt miner, depicted as Hercules wearing antique armour. This representation symbolically emphasises the hard work of the Wieliczka salt diggers, excavating the precious mineral for hundreds of years.

**For more images and further information, visit:** 
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/273

Inventory number: ID no. MŻKW IV/ 150

Location of the physical object: 

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolski Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland**

Horn of Salt Diggers Brotherhood of Wieliczka

**Fish-shaped besamin box**

Besamin boxes [Heb. bassamim, psumin-byksy] served as containers for spices and were used during the end of the Sabbath and were usually tower-shaped. Interestingly, the besamin box from Nowy Sącz is fish-shaped, whose head, connected to a trunk by a hinge, can be opened and tilted to the side. The fish trunk consists of five overlapping segments, each tapering towards the tail fin, each ending with semi-circular scales, each textured and covered in a network of furrows. The individual segments of the trunk are mutually conjoined in such a way that the body of the fish can be slightly bent.

**For more images and further information, visit:** 
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/696

Inventory number: MNS/3733/S 

Location of the physical object: Nowy Sącz District Museum, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project**

Fish-shaped besamin box

**Mass chalice**

1773, Kraków, Poland, Museum of Miechowska Land in Miechów

**For more images and further information, visit:
**
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/3095

Inventory number: MZM/D/S/6

Localisation of the physical object: Museum of Miechowska Land in Miechów

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project**

Mass chalice

Astronomical quintant

Joseph von Utzschneider – artist / maker
Joseph Liebherr – artist / maker

1st half of the 19th century, Munich, Germany
Jagiellonian University Museum, Collegium Maius

This item is an observational astronomical instrument used to determine the altitude of celestial bodies above the horizon. It consists of a frame restricted by two radiuses and an arc with a scale, an observation telescope, and a mirror system. The arc of the quintant is the fifth part of a circle, hence its name, analogous to quadrants, sextants, and octants (based on the fourth, sixth, and eighth parts of a circle, respectively).

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2779

Inventory number: 4103; 103/V

Localisation of the physical object: Archaeological Museum in Kraków

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project

Astronomical quintant

**Table from a gothic library in the Cistercian Abbey in Mogiła**

**For more images and further information, visit:**
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/4433

Inventory number: OCM-Biblioteka Gotycka

Museum of Cistercian Spirituality and Culture with the Library in the Cistercian Abbey in Mogiła

**Digitisation: Regional Digitisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Kultura cyfrowa 2024” Project**

Project Visualization (3D model + textures): Wojciech Szczekan

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