ARTCENTRICA

ArtCentrica is an innovative startup and an EdTech solution that addresses the education market, a growing sector, reinforced by the pandemic situation. In this context, the cultural digital transformation has become an increasingly urgent need, and at the same time it also has made the development of new ways of teaching and learning. Therefore, guaranteeing access to cultural heritage online is fundamental for our future. ArtCentrica, has been designed and developed since the end of 2019 by Ce... ntrica - Italian company leader in Digital sector for the cultural heritage enhancement -, and allows teachers and students to visualize in intimate detail, compare, virtually measure, correlate artworks, and create lessons that can be used inside and outside the classroom. The cloud application contains more than 7.000 artworks from global museums like Uffizi Galleries, Brera Museum, the MET, Rijksmuseum, Central Graphic Institute in Rome, Cleveland Museum of Art, Finnish National Museum, Museo Egizio, Reims Musée des Beaux-Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), Staedel Museum and 30 Florentine views, with images in very high resolution, up to 10 GigaPixel for each artwork. It is possible to appreciate intimate details of masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Caravaggio and other hundreds of artists, due to GigaPixel images and enabling technologies, with a quality of images and associated knowledge that is not available in the market. Because of its valuable features, ArtCentrica has been recognized among the best ICT tools for teaching and learning by Reimagine Education 2020 (December 2020) and has been awarded by National Geographic in GESAwards That’s Geography special track (January 2021). Moreover, ArtCentrica has been selected for the following acceleration/prizes: Third Call of the European project IMPACT EdTech (November 2021) FuturED’s acceleration path (January 2022) by CDP Venture Capital SGR - National Innovation Fund Accelerate Italy acceleration for US market (July 2022) FoundersBoost acceleration program (August 2022) CultTech acceleration program (September 2022) Global Startup Program in San Francisco (October 2022) Apollo Awards 2022, shortlist “Digital Innovation of the Year” (December 2022)More