Artifacts and Artifaction: Two Years of Historical Preservation with Benj. Harrison Presidential Site

Abstract

In 2016, the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, based out of Indianapolis, contracted our class N420 Project Development to produce a virtual museum to become known as The 23rd Floor. Virtual reality systems allow interaction with 3D replicas of artifacts that are normally not able to be displayed due to quantity of historical artifacts and insufficient space to display them in. The University Library's Center for Digital Scholarship was instrumental to providing digital scans that provided the foundation to recreate authentic replications of over 50 assets inside the growing virtual museum.