The Heritage and Education Centre ship model series

[tkay11]

After receiving the attached from the Society of Nautical Research, I went to the site advertised (Llloyd’s Register Foundation’s new project Maritime Innovation in Miniature) and found it had links to a series of videos of models in Stockholm's National Maritime Museum. The series has details of many of that Museum's models using modern camera techniques as described in the Newsletter. The direct link on YouTube to the Introduction of the series of short films in English (which is part of the Heritage Foundation series). It is a general one showing some of the equipment used and a quick guide around the museums and workshops.

 

In case you haven't found this wonderful series before, it provides a very worthwhile and enjoyable exploration of ship models from the 16th Century to the present day.

 

Enjoy!

 

Tony

 

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Latest Mariners' Mirror Podcast! Filming The World’s Best Ship Models: Stockholm This episode looks at Llloyd’s Register Foundation’s new project Maritime Innovation in Miniature which is one of the most exciting maritime heritage projects of recent years and a leader in terms of innovation in the maritime heritage field. The aim of the project is to film the world’s best ship models. They are removed from their protective glass cases and filmed in studio conditions with the very latest camera equipment. In particular, the ships are filmed using a macro probe lens, which offers a unique perspective and extreme close up shots. It allows the viewer to get up close and personal with the subject, whilst maintaining a bug-eyed wide angle image. This makes the models appear enormous – simply put, it’s a way of bringing the ships themselves back to life. Ship models are a hugely under-appreciated, under-valued and under-exploited resource for engaging large numbers of people with maritime history. The majority of museum-quality ship models exist in storage; those that are on display have little interpretation; few have any significant online presence at all; none have been preserved on film using modern techniques. These are exquisitely made 3D recreations of the world’s most technologically significant vessels, each with significant messages about changing maritime technology and the safety of seafarers. The ships may no longer survive…but models of them do. This project acknowledges and celebrates that fact by bringing them to life with modern technology, in a way that respects and honours the art of the original model makers and the millions of hours of labour expended to create this unparalleled historical resource. This episode looks in particular at the extraordinary models that were filmed in 2022 at the Swedish National Maritime Museum in Stockholm.

[wefalck]

Thanks for the links, have to look into this - just revisted the Sjöhistoriska Museet in Stockholm three weeks ago - one of the last of the maritime museums that really seems to appreciate its model collection.