Museo della Carta di Pescia (Pescia Paper Museum), one of the recent members of PHOTOCONSORTIUM, has its historical headquarters in the ancient ‘Le Carte’ paper mill built around the beginning of the 18th century, in TUscany. The paper factory represents how paper was typically manufactured since the Middle Ages.

Since 2008 the museum has worked extensively on recovering and preserving its collections, which include all the traditional tools used in the hand production of paper: watermarked moulds, waxes, stamps, watermarked metallic cloths and watermarked sheets. The collections are complemented by the archival records of paper company “Magnani”, witnessing centuries of corrispondence and business relationships in Italy and abroad.

With its collaboration with EUreka3D project, the Museum embarked on the creation of an ambitious new workflow to start digitising its collections and moulds both in 2D and 3D.

Read about the activity and the history of the museum on Europeana’s new blog.

EUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.