The aim? To better record Europe's cultural heritage and make it more tangible through high-resolution 3D models. Currently, only 0.01 per cent of the more than 57 million cultural assets that can be accessed on the Europeana portal are available in 3D.
The German contribution to the ‘Twin it!’ campaign was presented by Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth. The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media had selected two synagogues that were destroyed by the National Socialists in the November pogrom of 1938: the Great Synagogue in Erfurt and the old synagogue on Michelsberg in Wiesbaden. Both synagogues were virtually reconstructed in 2021 and can now be experienced in the German Digital Library.