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.

DIGITAL PROGRAMMING CHALLENGES

Osmel and the Capital Pride team organize a variety of fun, cause-driven programming for Pride week every year here in Ottawa. This year presented the massive challenge of digitizing the program to make it more accessible while adhering to the covid event guidelines of the time.

Two events that normally attract hundreds of visitors were the Youth Art Showcase and Community Market. Together, we determined that our 3D Virtual Tours could serve as an immersive alternative and with the Ottawa Art Gallery as a venue, we set up to capture the art and wares of the community’s makers in their Alma Duncan Salon.

Take a look below at the 3D Virtual Tours we captured for Capital Pride 2020.

YOUTH ART SHOWCASE

Showing the beautiful art work of 20+ 2SLGBT+ artists, this 3D Virtual Tour hosted more than 1000 visitors over Capital Pride week. All artists as are credited through the use of multimedia labels.

COMMUNITY MARKET

Ottawa’s 2SLGBT+ community is host to many creative and entrepreneurial makers who appreciated having an outlet to show their works online during Capital Pride. The community market also had us support other sponsor partners by digitizing their information booths with links to learn more.

HOW GOING VIRTUAL HELPED CAPITAL PRIDE 2020

Broken down by the numbers, digital visits to Capital Pride’s website were up nearly 100% this year. While most years their Art Showcase and Community Market would entertain hundreds of in-person visitors, this year more than a thousand were welcomed to the online versions of the events.

We know that a ‘Digital Twin’ will never live up to the real thing but given the circumstances, this was the next best thing. One more benefit from having the 3D Virtual Tour is that it will remain available for event organizers, artists, and makers to show off for the rest of a year, something you wouldn’t be able to do with the physical venue.

WE PROUDLY SUPPORT OTTAWA’S NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Every year we support Not For Profit organizations through our Random Scans Of Kindness initiative.

If your organization is interested in partnering with us in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto please contact us directly for information on how we can help with our 3D Virtual Tours.