bavarikon – Kultur und Wissensschätze Bayerns

bavarikon is the internet portal of the Free State of Bavaria for the presentation of art, culture and stocks of knowledge from Bavarian institutions. Archives, libraries and museums are involved as well as institutions of state administration, of those engaged in the preservation of historical monuments and of those promoting scholarship. bavarikon provides worldwide free access to a broad spectrum of cultural assets such as documents and archival records, manuscripts, archaeological discoveries, paintings, graphics and photographs, city plans and maps, sculptures, means of payment, castles and palaces as well as folk culture etc. Selected exhibits are presented as 3D models. Some of the digital representations in the portal were produced especially for bavarikon. The portal is updated monthly by new contents and constantly wins additional institutions as new partners. bavarikon went online in April 2013. It is part of the Bayern Digital II funding programme of the Bavarian state government and, in its early years, was a module of the Bayerisches Kulturkonzepts (Bavarian Cultural Concept). The web hosting is provided by the Leibniz Computing Centre at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.