Funded through the Digital Europe Programme, XRculture developed an offline-first augmented reality tool that lets museum staff and volunteers document endangered heritage collections without an internet connection, tested by 30 trained staff and volunteers in Odesa, Ukraine, generating 78 new digitisations and improving 33 existing 3D models for the Registry of the Museum Fund of Ukraine and Europeana. Across Italy, Croatia, Ukraine, Syria, Portugal and Spain, the project delivered 1,281 new or improved digitised heritage datasets overall. At the Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche in Ancona, it used mixed reality to virtually reunite 23 Roman glass artefacts separated from their original Zadar collection since the Second World War, and a dedicated heritage tourism pilot turned 3D models into over 50 holographic videos shown across five European destinations using low-cost smartphone pyramid kits, engaging more than 2,000 visitors directly and reaching over 60,560 users online and offline, well beyond its original 7,500-user target.

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