Factum Arte is an art conservation company based in Madrid, Milan, and London.[1] Its commercial activity involves assisting contemporary artists to create technically difficult and innovative works of art.[2] It also seeks to promote the use of non-contact 3D digitisation technologies to record museum collections and historic monuments, especially in areas where these are at risk.[3] Since 2009, Factum Arte's non-profit cultural heritage projects have been carried out through the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation.
In 2014, Factum Arte completed the installation of an exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, near Howard Carter’s house. The facsimile, and its proximity to the original tomb, is intended to provoke a debate about preservation;[4][5] as Factum Arte's Director, Adam Lowe, has said: "The tomb of Tutankhamun was built to last for eternity, but it wasn't built to be visited".[6]
Factum Arte has worked with institutions such as the British Museum in London, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.
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- ^ "Los copiadores legales del arte antiguo". El Mundo. 29 February 2020.
- ^ Aspden, Peter (17 April 2014). "Fit for a king: Tutankhamun's replica burial chamber". The Financial Times. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ "Egypt: Preserving King Tut's Tomb Campbell datalogger controls monitoring of conditions at Tutankhamen site". Campbell Scientific United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ Daveys, Janey (19 October 2014). "Creating an exact replica of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's Tomb with 3D printing". Inside3DP.com. Retrieved 19 July 2016.