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British Museum to be Digitally Recreated In Minecraft

British Museum to be digitally recreated in Minecraft By Joe Miller Technology Reporter



23 September 2014



The video game Minecraft will recreate the British Museum in London, complete with all its exhibits.



This project is part of the Museum of the Future program which aims to boost the institution's appeal.



Many real-life organizations have created maps using Minecraft, including Ordnance Survey, the Danish government, and Ordnance Survey. Beago They want to educate young people of their work.



This week, Minecraft was sold to Microsoft for $2.5bn (PS1.5bn).



A spokesperson for the museum said the project was in "an early stage of planning", and the "build" had not yet begun.



She said that the organization was looking to recruit volunteers to assist in the "construction".



The British Museum



The first national museum of the nation, was established in 1753.



The UK's most visited tourist destination



Almost six million visitors a year and holds eight million objects



The natural history collections were moved to a new building in South Kensington in the 1880s which would later become the Natural History Museum



Its instantly easily identifiable Great Court was designed by Lord Foster and is the largest covered public area in Europe.



One British Museum employee posted details of the project on the social media site Reddit, asking for volunteers to be involved.



He received enthusiastic feedback from Minecraft fans from all over the all over the world.



Initial stages



Digitally creating the Great Court, facade and the interior of the building is the first step in the process.



The institution hopes that this stage will be before the public debate entitled changing public dialogues around museum collections in the digital age, taking place on 16 October.



Ovum's Ovum gaming analyst Ed Barton told the BBC that the British Museum's move towards Minecraft would make it "perceived to be a fun activity" and serve as an educational tool for a young public.



"It's the digital equivalent of building the British Museum in Lego," he declared. "You need to build it brick by brick".



He said that the institution should be commended for crowdsourcing it "as this turns it into something collaborative" and could increase the number of younger Minecraft fans.



He added, "What an awesome project it would be to be to build the Elgin Marbles from Minecraft."



Those interested in donating to the British Museum's project can sign up on Reddit.



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