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The first 3D objects from Pixelated Realities are now available on Europeana 

December 4, 2025
3D-4CH, news, XRCulture

The first 3D objects from Pixelated Realities are now available on Europeana 

Pixelated Realities has joined Europeana, Europe’s main digital platform for cultural heritage, with its first 3D objects now publicly available online. This marks an important step toward enriching the representation of Ukrainian cultural heritage in major European digital collections.​

3D objects on Europeana

The first items published are 3D models from the Museum of Ukrainian Victory, created by the Pixelated Realities team within international collaborations. These models can already be explored online via Europeana at this link. 


The current selection on Europeana includes outdoor sculptures and heritage sites from Odesa, Kherson, Kharkiv and Sumy regions:

  • Statue of Duke de Richelieu in Sand Bags and as an original version
  • Lioness and Lion of the Odesa City Garden (sculptor Auguste Caїn)
  • Taras Shevchenko monument, Odesa
  • Taras Shevchenko Monument in Sand Bags, Kharkiv
  • The Polovtsian warrior statues of Izium (Polovtsian babas), Kharkiv region
  • The Northern Gate of Kherson fortress, Kherson
  • Okhtyrka City Museum of Local Lore, Sumy region

These models are part of a wider collection of more than 30 objects documented for the Museum of Ukrainian Victory initiative in 2022 and early 2023 with the support of conflict reporters, who received training and then carried out emergency photogrammetry scanning in the field before the images were processed into 3D models in Odesa.

Contribution to Europe’s digital heritage

Europeana brings together over 50 million digital objects from around 3,500 cultural institutions across Europe, making cultural heritage openly accessible and preserved for future generations. By contributing high‑quality 3D content, Pixelated Realities helps ensure that stories and objects from Ukraine become an integral part of this shared European digital space.​

Powered by XRculture and 3D-4CH

The publication of these models on Europeana is part of the activities of the XRculture project and the 3D‑4CH consortium, which focus on advancing 3D digitisation and reuse of cultural heritage across Europe. Their technical frameworks and workflows support the aggregation, optimisation, and sharing of complex 3D data for open access platforms like Europeana.​

Future expansions and national aggregation for Ukraine

Starting next year, building on this pilot aggregation, Pixelated Realities PO will add around 40 more of its 3D models to Europeana through the same partnership and workflow. In parallel, an open call will be launched for Ukrainian organisations that already have CH 3D models and wish to share them via Europeana, expanding the visibility of Ukraine’s cultural heritage in European and global digital spaces.

This initiative is also an important step toward the future development of a national Europeana aggregator based on the Register of the Museum Fund of Ukraine, which will serve as the key national hub for connecting Ukrainian museum collections with European digital infrastructures.

Read more on XRculture

More details about this milestone and the broader collaboration are available in the news article on the XRculture website: “The first objects from Pixelated Realities are now available on Europeana — the first steps toward enriching the collections from Ukraine”.