IMPULSE — Immersive digitisation: upcycling cultural heritage towards new reviving strategies

Curate cultural heritage for immersive worlds.

Search Europeana, Wikimedia Commons and IIIF collections, pick the works you need, and hand IMPULSE a ready-made collection.

No account needed. You get a private link to edit your collection later.

Search across Europeana Statens Museum for Kunst Codex Manesse (Heidelberg) Wellcome Collection The Met Cleveland Museum of Art Zenodo 3D models Wikimedia Commons

How it works

From archive to Unity in four steps.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, After Katsushika HokusaiWater-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, Claude MonetThe Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh

Filter by images or 3D models, and by archive.

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. When you create a collection, you get a private edit link. Add your email if you want to sign in and edit your collections on other devices.

Who owns the assets?

The institutions that hold them. Every asset shows its licence and source, and your collection keeps that information for IMPULSE.

Can I change a collection after submitting it?

Yes. Its URL stays the same, so your changes reach IMPULSE without submitting again.

Which licences can I use?

Only works whose licence IMPULSE accepts — by default public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA. Works under other terms, or with unclear rights, don’t appear in the search. Each collection lists its licences and the credits they require.

Where do the assets come from?

From open archives in Europe and beyond: Europeana, the Danish National Gallery (SMK), Wellcome Collection, The Met, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Zenodo, Wikimedia Commons and IIIF collections such as the Codex Manesse at Heidelberg University Library. The files stay with them; a collection points to them.