Florence Heritage at Santa Maria Novella Station
The restaurant Fratelli Cuore, a new meeting point at the Santa Maria Novella Central Station in Florence, is the first restaurant to have the application “Florence Heritage”, an interactive touchscreen guide. Developed by Centrica in collaboration with the City of Florence for the 30th anniversary of Florence in the UNESCO list of of Intangible Cultural […]
Digital exhibition “Uffizi Virtual Experience. Da Giotto a Caravaggio” in Milan
January 22nd 2016 – March 13th 2016, Milan Uffizi Virtual Experience. From Giotto to Caravaggio is the first immersive interactive virtual exhibition entirely produced in Italy. It literally brings the Uffizi Gallery to life with over 1150 high resolution digitalized images, immersive multi projections and interactive technology. Sponsored by the Ministry of Arts and Culture, […]
A software for multi-projections at Villa Rufolo in Ravello
Centrica joined a project od restoration and valorization of the Tower of Villa Rufolo, an historic building which dates back to XXIII hundreds, based in the city of Ravello (SA), creating a software for the direction and control of the multi-projections included in the project. Villa Rufolo lies in the Amalfi coastline and hosts a […]
Centrica and VirtuItaly at Restauro in Ferrara
Centrica and VirtuItaly will be at Restauro, the Fair of Conservation, technology and promotion of cultural and environmental heritage in Ferrara next wednesday April 6th 2016. Marco Cappellini, CEO of Centrica-VirtuItaly, will participate to the workshop Re-thinking the museum. Communication and digital strategies for innovative management and teaching with a speech titled Uffizi Virtual Experience: […]
Uffizi Virtual Experience from Giotto to Caravaggio
26Milan. “Fabbrica del Vapore” from January 22th to March 13th Plonge yourself in the beauty of art and start an immersive and interactive voyage in the history of Italian masterpieces. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and the Primavera, Leonardo’s Annunciation, Caravaggio’s Bacchus and many other treasures will be the setting of a new experience. Uffizi Virtual […]
People of Hamburg
The exhibition “Hamburg ins Gesicht geschaut” is opening today at the Historische Museen Hamburg, a show of portraits dedicated to the city and its citizens. With about one thousand works including photography, paintings, illustrations on paper and sculptures, the exhibition presents a view of the society that has lived in Hamburg in the last 500 […]
An opportunity for art
17“Tre anni fa l’idea di un distretto dei beni culturali con la benedizione europea, poi lo stop per la mancanza di commesse e di un’impresa forte a fare da traino. Ma restauro, conservazione e nuove tecnologie restano decisive per la nostra regione. Le eccellenze qui ci sono già: aspettano una spinta per poter fare il […]
Centrica’s contribution to the “Great Museum of the Cathedral” of Florence which opens today.
Centrica has carried out several on-site digitization campaigns and developed interactive applications for the new Opera del Duomo Museum in Florence. Specifically: Gates of Paradise: The entire door and the individual panels of Ghiberti scanned at high resolution and made enjoyable though touch screen and iOS/Android App. Centrica’s technologies allow you to zoom in the […]
UffiziTouch® Cloud guest in Hamburg
Centrica will be in Hamburg from 2 of September, with 1150 works of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, thanks to UffiziTouch® Cloud. Visitors can admire each masterpiece thanks to a series of touchscreen that will allow you to explore the entire collection, to compare more works and to observe even the smallest details. Visit the […]
Cultural Heritage Sciences & Multimedia Communication Strategies
To play a leading role in the production of content in the age of digital innovation, it is important that museums and heritage sites offer themselves as the “agora” where tradition, scientific and technological development meet and find ways for contemporary dialogue. In order to take advantage of the cultural heritage resources it is necessary […]
