Virtual Tours

for heritage sites

Virtual Tours

for heritage sites

Documenting and recording our architectural heritage preserves the built memory that future generations will inherit.

A virtual tour brings art, architectural history, and memory closer to everyone. It’s a revolutionary way to consume knowledge and innovate in the cultural and educational sectors.

Marco Zouvek

The virtual tour is an exceptional tool for cultural and tourist promotion and a powerful didactic resource for educators.

  • The virtual tour offers a new way to view, learn about, and interact with art, architectural ensembles, and historical sites. It’s an invaluable classroom resource and a powerful tool for cultural and tourist promotion for city councils and heritage organizations.
  • It also serves as a new visual recording tool for conservators, restorers, and those responsible for guarding and documenting cultural and historical assets.

Community Benefits of the Virtual Tour

Promote the dissemination of buildings and heritage complexes to facilitate knowledge access.

Highlight architectural heritage as both an aesthetic and historical object, helping to understand our past and present.

Provide a 360º visual record of artistic and historical spaces for documentation and conservation.

360 Photographs and architectural heritage

Historical complexes, monuments, and significant buildings are human creations with specific, planned purposes, reflecting a past worth preserving.

  • Through 360º photographic technology, we can freeze time, preserving architectural heritage in detail for future generations.
  • Spherical photographs capture structures as they are, aiding in their preservation against accidental fires, wars, or natural disasters.

360 Technology at the Service of Education and Culture

Conservators and curators have noted how virtual visits not only promote culture but also incite interest in in-person visits. These tours are valuable educational tools for history and culture students worldwide.

  • With high-resolution image capture, 360 technology offers a detailed view for studying construction details of vaults, domes, arches, and walls.
  • 360º spherical photography allows virtual visits to cultural sites that are physically inaccessible due to security, conservation regulations, or remoteness.

MY PROPOSAL

Utilize virtual tours as documentary tools and educational resources with quality operations and results.

2 Objectives:

  • Bring heritage closer to everyone, regardless of their location.
  • Provide a new technological tool for documenting and restoring assets, serving as a documentary base for future restoration work.

My Method: Understanding beyond seeing
I offer well-executed, minimally invasive operations with intuitive interfaces. My 360º tours use cameras and specific software to interconnect images, allowing virtual visits to include multimedia elements like images, PDFs, notes, and links to enhance understanding.

My final objective: Contribute to preserving and sharing the heritage we’ve inherited.

Target audienceDeliverablesCULTURAL PROMOTION AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

My work aims to disseminate cultural heritage, document and register it, and serve as teaching material for educators and scholars.

Virtual tours are ideal for communication strategies in cultural and educational centers due to their community benefits.

While virtual tours can’t replace the excitement of in-person visits, they have become essential educational and dissemination resources, making art, history, and culture accessible to all.

Who do I address?

  • Cultural facilities and museums
  • Cultural councils of city councils
  • Cultural managers in public and private sectors
  • Cultural promoting institutions
  • Educators
  • Original panoramic photographs for conservation and protection.
  • The execution time varies depending on the site size, with tours published a few days after execution.

Virtual tours act as instruments of cultural dissemination and promotion, providing educational tools that make architectural heritage accessible to all, regardless of location or circumstances.

  • They enable virtual visits for those with mobility issues, time constraints, or financial limitations.
  • They allow uninterrupted access to heritage sites, reducing costs for security and maintenance.

Goal:

Bring knowledge to everyone, no matter where they are.

Use virtual tours as technological tools for documenting and restoring assets in preventive conservation.

  • 360º technology offers precise documentation of heritage assets, facilitating restoration work.
  • It provides valuable data for describing current conditions and exploring restoration work.
  • It reduces expert site visits by allowing detailed zooms and other actions.

Objectives:

  • Provide high-resolution, navigable digitized images with detailed zoom capabilities.
  • Ensure accurate information preservation and quick recovery and reproduction of visual records in case of loss.

What is a spherical photograph or 360º photography?
A spherical or 360º photograph covers a 360º viewing angle in two axes (X, Y) and can be viewed interactively on a screen, allowing a complete view around the point of capture.

What is a virtual tour?
A virtual tour is an interactive way to explore a space from any internet-connected device, giving the sensation of being in the actual location and enabling visits to various points within the environment.

Benefits of Virtual Heritage Tours for Managing Institutions
Virtual tours place cultural institutions on the map, enhancing prestige and accessibility, ultimately benefiting the community—the final customer of any heritage management organization.