With the latest 3-D technology, a photo shoot like for a fashion magazine and digitization, the Kirchseeon Local History Association wants to arouse interest.
The project is set to last for many years.
Kirchseeon
- A pair of small, black shoes stands in the subdued spotlight on a curved surface that casts no shadows.
The dark leather work of art with the fine seams on the side is probably made for a child.
It looks a bit old-fashioned, at the same time timeless, retro.
In any case totally fascinating, laced, lined.
In addition, a color palette with colored squares for comparative classification. A camera is set up like a photo shoot for a fashion magazine, with several wheels and axes for exact setting on the long-legged tripod for very precise adjustment. Set up on an old table, all around historical exhibits. It is state-of-the-art technology in addition to old exhibits on the walls, exhibits that were partly created well before the birth of Christ.
How does that fit together?
Apparently very good in a project by the Kirchseeon local history museum.
Because visits are currently not possible there due to the Corona restrictions, the board of the local history association uses the time to digitize, photograph, scan and prepare the inventory for the Internet - and thus also preserve it for posterity and at the same time for the youth to make interesting.
50,000 unique pieces
The club now has the necessary equipment for this.
A huge task lies ahead of those responsible.
After all, around 2000 exhibits are on display in the museum at the Kirchseeon ATSV hall, including the legendary shoemaker's workshop.
That is only a small part of the total stock.
Around 50,000 individual items are stored in various depot rooms - from small coins to dismantled wagons and many pieces of equipment from the German Navy minesweeper "Sirius", for which the Kirchseeon market was the godfather.
"It will probably be a few more years before we have all this through, we can't do everything at once," says Daniel Dolinsky, together with his wife Bianka Dolinsky and Christiane and Karl-Heinz König on the board of the Kirchseeoner Heimatkundeverein.
Elaborate equipment
The new technology cost around 6500 euros.
Photo equipment with camera and flash, screens, scanners for documents, automatic slide scanner, turntable and many other parts.
This is partly financed by grants.
The market's political community also helped.
There was also advice from the Free State and the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria, says Dolinsky.
Up to 100 photos per exhibit
Some exhibits are now photographed twice for the digital archive, others up to 100 times for the three-dimensional presentation.
An example: The 3-D representation of one of the museum's very unusual pieces, a bronze chisel from around 1200 BC.
He was found on the Spannleitenberg.
Dolinsky, who among other things studied technical physics and works in the software industry, developed his own computer program for this representation.
Photos of the exhibits are then uploaded to a special portal on the Internet.
An interface to the German Digital Library in Berlin has been set up.
The Kirchseeon local history museum is also connected to the "Europeana", a virtual internet service, an initiative of the European Union.
Offer for schools
The board members hope to reach new interested parties in addition to the previous "audience" - possibly to inspire the younger generation for the story in their own living environment through the fascinating photo technology.
"If we have a lot of good quality on the Internet, we are also present in Corona times."
The Kirchseeon local history museum is to be designed in such a way that it fits into the curriculum of the local elementary and middle school as well as that of the grammar school, now in the pandemic and beyond as a digital offer and hopefully soon again for all visitors on site in their own Clearing.
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