Touching an ancient stone: 3d modeling and augmented reality techniques for a collection of petroglyphs from State Hermitage Museum

Displaying collections of petroglyphs in a museum so that the exhibits inspire interest in the public can be considered an interesting task of turning the traditional exhibition space into the augmented space with exciting objects providing evidence of cultural developments in the Bronze Age. The paper discusses the workflow of acquiring, processing and displaying 3D data for a collection of petroglyphs with carved images (Okunev stones) from the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.