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Inside Explorer: Mummified cat
This image shows Inside Explorer, a new kind of 'digital specimen table', a result of collaboration between the Interactive Institute and Visualization Center C in Sweden and London’s Natural History Museum. This visualisation table enables museum visitors to interactively explore artefacts that have been scanned, using the museum’s Micro CT facilities, and is showcased at the museum’s Science Uncovered event.
The subject shown is a mummified cat from ancient Egypt, which was donated to the museum by the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie and is thought to be approximately 2500 years old. Using the touch table, visitors to the museum can peel away the bandages virtually and reveal the cat inside in remarkable detail. Discoveries have found that the cat is a juvenile and that the bones have been re-packed tightly to form the classic mummy shape.
Photo: Kristofer Jansson, Interactive Institute.
Inside Explorer: Mummified cat
This image shows Inside Explorer, a new kind of 'digital specimen table', a result of collaboration between the Interactive Institute and Visualization Center C in Sweden and London’s Natural History Museum. This visualisation table enables museum visitors to interactively explore artefacts that have been scanned, using the museum’s Micro CT facilities, and is showcased at the museum’s Science Uncovered event.
The subject shown is a mummified cat from ancient Egypt, which was donated to the museum by the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie and is thought to be approximately 2500 years old. Using the touch table, visitors to the museum can peel away the bandages virtually and reveal the cat inside in remarkable detail. Discoveries have found that the cat is a juvenile and that the bones have been re-packed tightly to form the classic mummy shape.
Photo: Kristofer Jansson, Interactive Institute.