A great way to invest the taxpayer's money - making tangible history available to

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A great way to invest the taxpayer’s money - making tangible history available to as many people as possible.
The site currently seems to be under heavy load and i couldn’t get a model downloaded - the catalog seem fine, though, and it allows you to browse the objects they’ve already digitized scanned.

File catalog: http://3d.si.edu/browser
Blog post: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/11/these-new-3d-models-put-the-smithsonians-most-renowned-items-in-your-hands/
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5100190/the-smithsonian-is-now-sharing-3d-scans-of-artifacts-with-the-public

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This really cool, but with only 20 models and a few dozen a year included in the mix it may take a few hundred rears. It is cool tho.

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I thought they had a lot more than that already scanned… They have been at it for a while now… https://www.facebook.com/3d.si.edu