You can read all the details about my (now failed) Kickstarter, Through A Scanner, Skulpturhalle here, but here’s the short version: my goal is to 3D scan a selection of plaster casts of important, archetypal sculptures at the Skulpturhalle Basel museum. I will then publish the scans and 3D printable files into the public domain, copyright-free, so that anyone, anywhere, can download, alter, adapt, or 3D print them for themselves. It’s a way to broaden access to sculptural masterworks to everyone.

The Skulpturhalle has been preserving high quality 19th and 20th century plaster casts of these ancient masterworks (and many, many more). You can help me prioritize the scan targets by clicking on the titles and re-tweeting your favorites:

The Medusa Rondanini

The Venus de Milo

The Hera Farnese

The Charioteer of Delphi

Alexander the Great

The Tivoli Ares

The Somzée Ares

Laocoön and His Sons

Athena from Marsyas Group

The God from the Sea

The Boxer of Quirinal

Athena Lemnia

Head of the Ares Ludovisi

The Kauffman Head

Athena Parthenos

Wounded Amazon Sciarra Type

Diadumenos

Kritios Boy

Head of Farnese Heracles

Homer

Socrates

Plato

Pythagoras

Virgil

Winged Victory

Praying Boy

The Kore of Borea

Pseudo-Seneca / Aristophanes

The Molossian Hound

Odysseus from Sperlonga Group

Head of Menelaus from Pasquino Group

Spinario / Boy with Thorn

Dancing Faun