Scottish Football Museum Launches VR Exhibition Featuring 1874 Scottish Cup and 1978 Dalglish Jersey
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Updated · HeraldScotland · Jun 8
Scottish Football Museum Launches VR Exhibition Featuring 1874 Scottish Cup and 1978 Dalglish Jersey
3 articles · Updated · HeraldScotland · Jun 8
Summary
This week’s opening at Hampden’s Hall of Fame lets visitors use VR headsets to inspect and virtually “hold” items from Scotland’s national football collection in a specially built digital gallery.
University of Glasgow researchers developed the experience with the museum, using extended-reality tools, photogrammetry and Infinite Muse’s Wonder platform to create high-detail 3D models of historic artefacts.
Highlights include the original 1874 Scottish Cup — billed as the world’s oldest national football trophy — plus Kenny Dalglish’s 1978 World Cup shirt, an 1898 final match ball and the 1907 Rosebery shirt.
The summer exhibition is tied to renewed World Cup interest around Scotland’s men’s team, and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s UK while the museum says the project could help take its collection to a wider audience.