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Hackathon participants viewing Lorenzo Bartolini's The Demidov Table in Gallery 555
James David Draper, Henry R. Kravis Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, speaking about a nineteenth-century vase in Gallery 553
Hackathon attendees discussing objects in The Charles Engelhard Court
Eric Kjellgren, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator, addressing participants in Gallery 354
Hackathon attendees beginning to convert their photographs of Museum objects into 3D models
Participants hard at work in the Museum's Art Studio
MakerBot Replicators printing 3D objects
An attendee checks to see how his object is printing.
A MakerBot Replicator prints an object inspired by Balthasar Permoser's sculpture Marsyas.
A baby learns the ropes of 3D replication.
Participants hard at work
Artist Anney Fresh looks at a printout of the Durga puppet she created with her husband Keith Ozar, an events manager for MakerBot Industries.
Anney Fresh works on her Durga puppet.
Anney Fresh, Keith Ozar, and their creation
Mingling near the MakerBot Replicators
A participant works at a MakerBot Replicator.
Jacqueline Terrassa, managing Museum educator for Gallery and Studio Programs, and Peggy Fogelman, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education, observe a Hackathon participant at work.
A Hackathon participant and Peggy Fogelman
A participant uses a MakerBot Replicator.
Participants working at a MakerBot Replicator
A printed object
Several objects created by participants
Keith Ozar and Anney Fresh present their creation.
A participant presents his work to the group.
On June 1 and 2, twenty-five digital artists and programmers descended upon the Metropolitan Museum's Art Studio for the Museum's first 3D scanning and printing Hackathon. The invited guests, along with staff from MakerBot Industries, spent two days photographing Museum objects and converting the images into 3D models with the help of special software.
Photographs by Don Pollard