Archaeologists Launch 'Virtual Museum' To Ukraine's Ancient Heritage
February 18, 2026 07:19 CET
By Amos Chapple
An online museum launched on February 18 aims to make Ukraine's heritage accessible to the public, while many of the featured treasures remain impossible to view in person.
The virtual exhibition, titled Our Land, Our Story: Crossroads of History, will display 25 3-D scans of historic objects, many of which are currently packed away in secret safehouses to shelter them from the war.
The Our Land exhibition splits the country into five regions and showcases some of the most consequential artifacts from each, including a terracotta figure from the infamous Snake Island that was captured by Russia in the early days of the full-scale invasion, then recaptured by Ukraine in the summer of 2022.
A team plans a 3-D scan of a historic shipwreck in Zaporizhzhya during work on the Our Land virtual museum.
Scans are made by taking scores of overlapping photos from multiple angles under uniform lighting that are then fed into a software program rendering them into one highly detailed 3-D image.
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