State Office for Archeology of Saxony

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State Office for Archeology Saxony in Dresden
smac in Chemnitz - part of the state office

The State Office for Archeology of Saxony in Dresden is one of the two conservation authorities of the Free State of Saxony , as defined in the Saxon Monument Protection Act . The tasks of the state office include documentation, protection, research and the presentation of archaeological monuments in Saxony. The State Office for Archeology is subordinate to the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism . It is based in the Klotzsche district of Dresden and was founded in 1991.

Since then, the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden , which was closed in 2012, has also been integrated as a department. The State Museum of Archeology (smac for short) emerged from it, which opened a permanent exhibition in Chemnitz in May 2014 and is part of the State Office. Like the “predecessor museum ”, it is the state's archaeological state museum and was the only state history museum in Saxony to show 280,000 years of human cultural development.

The State Office has been working intensively on the 3D documentation of archaeological objects since 2005. Since then, more than 20,000 objects have been digitized with several 3D scanners, building one of the world's largest stocks of high-precision 3D models for archeology. Selected finds have been available on the “archaeo | 3D ”presented. Web browsers act as 3D viewers, which based on the JavaScript programming interface WebGL , interactively display the corresponding 3D models together with the archaeological specialist information on a homogeneously designed page.

The archaeological finds are kept in the Archaeological Archive of Saxony (AAS).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archeology in Saxony

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 24 ″  E