serlindsipity

• Will you be sharing a list of future scans for the public?
• Plans to handle non-research scan requests?
• Are scans completely public and are people allowed to use them for profit?
• Any plans to include 3D prints into the collection? What about works that incorporate scans that are altered?
• Any idea how these scans and the prints might be used for K-12 education? Are there going to be teacher resources available?
• Will this technology/knowledge be expanded into non-smithsonian collections?

Good to know. I'm an artist who would like to incorporate some accurate skeleton pieces into my work. Primarily educational sculpture as well as photography. I made this piece using a skeleton from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science which is the incorrect species.

I hope more museums can institute similar projects... or perhaps a massive roaming system that can visit and scan high priority items from museums. Laser Cowboys cross country tour?

Well if you can do a quick and dirty scan of catalog # 292904 I can remedy this and send you a print! (and while you're at it.... 291358 , 18117 , 292905 , and 319416 and we'll have the full set for the series) =D

(PS - I actually owe you guys a formal request proposal to Vince. I just stumbled on this and couldn't resist. From one artist to another, it's pretty awesome to know you guys have BFAs and do something this cool)

Wonder if this could be a stand in front of the museum similar to the hot dog carts.

It's actually photography. My goal is to make copies of all of the Audubon prints featuring extinct birds to go with my series that features similar renditions of non-extinct birds