Overview

Background

the Anatomy Museum at the Medical School at Teviot Place will be vacated and moved to the College of Surgeons area.  To help document its current state and the history of the museum prior to moving, a piece of work will be started with an Edinburgh company called Luma 3Di in 2013 to “digitise” the museum using high resolution photographs and 3D technology. T

Scope

   A very high resolution virtual tour of agreed elements of the Anatomy building, including a small number of 3D virtual models which users will be able to virtually pick up and inspect.

   The development will include:

•  Anatomy Entrance.
• Digital reconstruction of the original museum from photographs.
• Skull room.
• “Artists flat.”
• Mechanics of the hoist to the “artists flat.”
• World renowned Lecture theatre.
• Discectomy room.
• Approximately 10-20 high resolution 3D elements, such as the skull of Burke and Hare for instance, will be developed to help tell a story of the history of the museum.

Objectives

To provide a web-based / tablet “app” to digitise the history of the Anatomy Museum.

Deliverables

An application for latest version of the iPad, iPad 3. An application that will work on iPAD 2 but with reduced richness.

Benefits

This work is driven by the Anatomy Museum moving out of their historical home. 

Once the Anatomy Museum has been relocated to the College of Surgeons, this will provide a virtual tour of the old location and hundreds of years of outstanding and important UoE history attached to the Medical College.

The target audience will be the general public and potential students to help promote the College and University.

At present, the Anatomy Museum, which demonstrates the history of anatomy, attracts around 2,000 visitors per annum.  Once in-situ near to the College of Surgeons Museum, which demonstrates the history of surgery and currently attracts around 30,000 visitors per annum, the expected growth will be in excess of 50,000 visitors per annum to both. 

There is excellent potential to highlight and demonstrate one of the largest collections in the UK and Europe, and provide an insight into the history of medicine at UoE and the college.  Importantly, this also gives the college a platform to generate interest in the college in general, alongside and the proposed Online (Distance) Learning Anatomy course covered in the next section.  

Success Criteria

An application that the general public as well as staff and students can download for use on the iPad 3.