We are happy to announce we have joined the Canadian Museum Association to better connect with museum professionals in Canada

You already know that Point3D is on top of the Museum virtual tour industry so it should be no surprise we are also a corporate member of the Canadian Museum Association. Through membership, we have connected with and done work with several Canadian Museums in capturing their exhibits and event venue space with 3D Virtual Tours. The immersive experiences extend the traditional reach of the exhibits, allowing for online visits by users around the world. They also give curators the ability to share more than just pictures with other institutions looking to sponsor and host exhibits.

The Canadian Museum Association is an organization working together to support Canada’s museum community. It includes volunteers and national institutions alike to build stronger museums and “a better Canada.” The association advocates for a variety of initiatives in the education sector, provides a huge host of jobs, works on the Truth and Reconciliation Program (specializing in Action #67), and partners with museums across Canada to achieve this!

A member of the Canadian Museum Association furthers the objectives of the Canadian Museum Association. Our participation includes paying the membership fee to keep the Canadian Museum Association running and then offering special pricing to museums in order to support their reach and general museum education across Canada. Our membership fees go towards the association’s advocacy for public policy, support, building skills in the profession, and building connections between museums and their supporters. We are happy and proud to work alongside museums across Canada that are educating young minds and keeping the history of Canada alive!

Explore Canadian Museum Virtual Tours

Located an hour north of Toronto, The Sharon Temple was constructed by the Children of Peace, an Upper Canada Quaker sect from 1825 – 1831. The Temple is an architectural symbol of their vision of a society based on the values of peace, equality, and social justice. We captured Museum 3D Tours of six heritage buildings on the property to allow users to explore artifacts, and immerse themselves in the Museum from any computer or cell phone!

With four buildings throughout the property, Champlain Trail Museum approached Point3D to create a museum virtual tour that could let users traverse between them. After scanning the separate buildings, they were connected with multimedia labels to do just that!

Rooted in Rural is a new permanent exhibition that explores Osgoode township’s rich agricultural and rural roots. Hosted at the Osgoode Township Museum, the exhibit was captured over the Summer of 2021 to create a museum virtual tour that could be shared with Ottawa-area schools in the Ottawa Catholic School Board and Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

The Canadian museum virtual tour that started it all, Bytown Museum. Set in Ottawa’s oldest stone building next to the Rideau River locks, this Museum features a permanent exhibition of early Ottawa, the Bytown, and the construction of the Rideau River locks themselves.

For us, the Bytown Museum is one of our earliest adopters of museum virtual tours and a long-time supporter of our business. We regularly re-visit the museum to capture temporary exhibits held on the second level of the building.

We are Ontario’s 3D Virtual Tour Experts

We offer a unique and extensive experience providing fast, realiable service for the most complex scanning environments. Our immersive 3D Imaging can serve as a solution to a wide range of industries. If you are interested and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your first 3D Tour scan.

3D Scans For Digital Preservation and Documentation

For most art galleries and museums, exhibits are changed intermittently throughout the year, each serving as a temporary experience for the public. With 3D Matterport Tours, exhibits throughout Ontario and Montreal are prolonging their impact and reaching new audiences online long after the physical exhibit has been moved back into storage. Galleries and Museums see value in continuing to show their exhibits virtually, expanding their exposure and availability to the public.

Beyond local expositions in Ottawa and Montreal, we are capturing national heritage sites and locations of cultural significance to share these spaces with the world more easily without traveling. We have been blessed to be commissioned across Canada to capture some very special places.
Below we have outlined a few such spaces we’ve captured.

Digital Preservation – Museum Exhibit

3D Virtual Tours are an exact virtual twin of your museum exhibit at the time of capture. They capture every inch of the venue and include all details of your pieces with multimedia labels.

Documentation – Brand Activation

Many organizations and companies will have Point3D scan a space for proof of marketing spend and for brand activations. These 3D Tours are used by both brand and franchisee stakeholders to document their use of marketing budgets.

Digital Preservation – Art Exhibit

One of the most exciting features about your Matterport  3D Tour is the ability to embed multimedia labels directly into the 3D Tour. Labels can include text, pictures, links, videos, or even entire brochures. This can add additional context to exhibits or showcase history.

Most of the art galleries we capture use multimedia labels to identify the artist, title, size, and medium. The 3D Tour below was for an auction, so a hyperlink to the auction item is included for every piece.

Documentation – Heritage Site

Before acquiring heritage sites, Organizations will want 3D Imaging of them to be cataloged and available to be later reviewed and referenced by heritage boards. We typically deliver a point cloud in .RCP and .LGS format but can include a Matterport 3D Tour for visuals upon request.

More Reasons For 3D Virtual Tours

Museums usually have exhibits that change with the seasons or when a new exhibit is developed. However, the information within these exhibits is still valuable to the vast majority of people. Museums are also location-specific, meaning the educational experience is only available to those who live near enough to the museum to access it. Digitizing an exhibit immortalizes it online and makes it accessible to everyone in the entire world to see. Adding multimedia tags invites people to learn more about the exhibit.

This works the same way for traveling exhibits, which may need to be taken down and then set back up again. Having a digital copy of a traveling exhibit allows it to be set up again in the same fashion as it was originally. We have also had a client use their virtual tour to apply for more funding to keep their physical tour running.

Here are our two favourite 3D Tours for Culture and Heritage in 2021.

Steamboats On The Rideau

The Rideau Canal is the oldest continuously operated canal system in North America, and possibly the first major canal to be built with steamboats in mind.

This was a special exposition held on the third floor of the Dickinson House Museum, which we have also captured in 3D. The virtual tours provided a way to visit the museums while they were closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, The staff prepared programs for schools to use with their students and were able to extend the reach of the temporary exhibit by being available online.

The Surgeon And Magician

This exhibit was held in the Ottawa Art Gallery. From Tiffany April, a playful and colourful Master’s thesis that is visible from all angles in the 3D Tour.

3D Tours exist online in a cloud-based platform. In this way, they are immortalized as long as they are hosted. 3D imaging and documentation could be the future of preservation efforts of artifacts, cultural and heritage buildings, and art.

We are Ontario’s 3D Virtual Tour Experts

We offer a unique and extensive experience providing fast, realiable service for the most complex scanning environments. Our immersive 3D Imaging can serve as a solution to a wide range of industries. If you are interested and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your first 3D Tour scan.

Ottawa is Doors-Open this June 4-11th 2021!

Doors Open Ottawa is a free event put on by the City of Ottawa each year that encourages residents of Ottawa and local tourists to visit a variety of architecturally significant buildings.

As the city is still actively working to keep their citizens safe, the celebration will be taking place online for the second year in a row. What is exciting about this innovation is that anyone from across the globe can visit some of Ottawa’s amazing buildings!

Doors Open Ottawa is hosting virtual visits to more than 70 of Ottawa’s buildings. The virtual tours offer photos, videos, detailed descriptions, and 3D Virtual Tours.

We created 3D Virtual Tours for 7 of the properties that are a part of Doors Open Ottawa. We are honoured to help the City of Ottawa open its doors to welcome guests worldwide into some of our most unique and/or historic buildings.

Read on to learn more!

Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory. We recognize and honour all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their valuable contributions to this land.

Take a tour of these architecturally significant buildings in Ottawa!

Through the various 3D Virtual Tours we have completed, guests can take an in-depth tour of historic buildings in Ottawa. Read below to learn more about the buildings we scanned, and visit the Doors Open Ottawa website to see all 70 tours offered!

Full List of Participating Buildings in Doors Open Ottawa 2021

The City of Ottawa invites you to celebrate the beautiful architecture around our city. Discover the history of these buildings, and what the future holds for them! Learn more about some of the best-kept secrets of Ottawa, and visit some of your favourite, well-known spaces.

Click here to visit each building. 

• Arts Court
• Billings Estate National Historic Site
• Bytown Museum
• Canada Council Art Bank
• Canadian Conservation Institute
• Canadian Museum of Nature
• Cancer Research Labs (Ottawa Hospital)
• Canmet Bells Corners Research Complex
• Carleton Dominion – Chalmers Centre
• Cascades Recovery +
• Chaudière Falls / Portage Power
• Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa
• Church of St. Bartholomew
• CSS Building Inc
• Cumberland Heritage Village Museum
• Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
• Dickinson House Musem
• Dominican University College
• Earnscliffe National Historic Site
• Embassy of Algeria: Fleck-Paterson House
• Embassy of Hungary to Canada – Birkett Castle
• Enriched Bread Artists (EBA)
• Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa – Roger Guindon Hall
• Fairfield Heritage House
• First Church of Christ, Scientist
• First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa
• French Embassy in Canada
• Global Centre for Pluralism
• Goulbourn Museum
• Heritage Building and Ottawa City Hall
• Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards
• James Bartleman Centre
• Jami Omar Mosque
• John R. Booth Residence
• Joyful Land Kadampa Buddhist Centre
• Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
• Library of Parliament – Former Bank of Nova Scotia

• Lisgar Collegiate Institute
• Mosque of Mercy
• National Arts Centre
• National Gallery of Canada
• Nepean Sailing Club
• OC Transpo Simulator Facility
• Official Residence of the Embassy of Denmark
• Osgoode Township Museum
• Ottawa Art Gallery
• Ottawa Fire Services Communications Centre
• Ottawa Fire Services Maintenance Division
• Ottawa Main Mosque
• Ottawa Masonic Centre / Tunis Shriners Temple
• Ottawa Paramedic Service Headquarters
• Ottawa Wedding Chapel
• Parliament of Canada: Centre Block
• Ready for Rail 360-Degree Tour
• Richmond Loyal Orange Lodge
• Rideau Archives, City of Ottawa Archives
• Rideau Hall
• Saint Matthew and Great Martyr Hristina Church
• Scouts Canada National Museum
• SPAO Centre
• St. James the Apostle Anglican Church
• St. Luke’s Anglican Church
• St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
• St. Peter and St. Paul’s Anglican Church
• Supreme Court of Canada
• The Centre for Health Innovation
• The Ottawa Mission
• The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• The University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre
• TSB Engineering Laboratory
• United States Embassy in Ottawa
• Vanier Museopark
• Wallis House
• Watson’s Mill
• West Block

We are 3D Virtual Tour Specialists

3D Virtual tours offer a unique and immersive solution to a wide range of industries. If you are interested and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your scan.

This month we are highlighting our work at Ottawa’s Cultural & Heritage Sites!

Despite Canada’s recent beginnings, only becoming a country in 1867, there is an abundance of historic sites to be explored across our expansive land. There is nowhere better to explore them than in Ottawa and the national capital region!

From charming historic farming estates, such as the Fairfield Heritage House, to important monuments in the heart of Ottawa, such as the Bytown Museum, 3D Virtual tours offer you the possibility of touring and enjoying these historic sites from the comfort of your own home.

Point3D has captured a number of cultural and heritage as Matterport 3D Tours throughout Ontario and Quebec.

Come tour these Historic Sites across Canada’s Capital Region!

3D Virtual tours offer you the opportunity to visit and tour a number of historic sites through your computer, phone, or tablet. Take some time to walk through the following tours created by Point3D and explore, as each is accompanied by background information on the location’s historic significance.

We are 3D Virtual Tour Specialists

3D Virtual tours offer a unique and immersive solution to a wide range of industries. If you are interested and looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your scan.