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Who made what: the scans, photographs, plans and textures the Agora of Ages is rebuilt from, and their licences.

Each was measured, cut, resized or recoloured to fit the walk, so none carries a licence that forbids changes. Each links to where it came from and to its licence.

Hall of American Presidents

Hall 1 · modelled on United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C., USA

The Rotunda above 6 m, walls, frieze, windows, dome and canopy, a photogrammetry scan (cut, recoloured, moved into the hall)Zoilo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The Capitol dome outside (simplified, painted, scaled to the hall)3Dlights · CC BY 4.0
Landing of Columbus (1847)John Vanderlyn · Public domain
Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843), photograph by the Architect of the CapitolRobert W. Weir · Public domain
General George Washington Resigning His Commission (1824)John Trumbull · Public domain
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (1820)John Trumbull · Public domain
Surrender of General Burgoyne (1821)John Trumbull · Public domain
Declaration of Independence (1818)John Trumbull · Public domain
Baptism of Pocahontas (1840), photograph by the Architect of the CapitolJohn Gadsby Chapman · Public domain
Discovery of the Mississippi (1853)William Henry Powell · Public domain
Where the paintings hang, from the plan of the RotundaArchitect of the Capitol · Public domain
The Capitol's central building round the Rotunda, measured on the principal-floor plan (1997, Official Congressional Directory)United States Congress · Public domain
The East Front's heights and its portico's columns, measured on a photographSenate Democrats · CC BY 2.0
The grain of the walls and floor (Beige Wall 001)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The doors' wood (Lacquered Cherry Wood)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The stone outside, its ashlar and mouldings (Marble 01, laid in the East Front's courses, whitened)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The Corinthian capitals of the portico and the pilasters, made whole from a scan of a Roman capital from the Harbour Baths of Ephesus in the Ephesos Museum, Vienna (one half-face mirrored and turned, fitted to the shafts, whitened)iedu360.eu · CC BY 4.0
The windows, pilasters and ashlar of the East Front, after a photographArchitect of the Capitol · Public domain
The West Front, after a photograph (1997)Architect of the Capitol · Public domain
Statue, Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington, the bronze copy in Minneapolis, scanned (scaled, toned as bronze)jerryfisher · CC BY 4.0
Statue of James Madison, scanned with an Artec Leo (scaled, toned as bronze)GoMeasure3D · CC BY 4.0
Statue, Andrew Jackson on horseback, a zinc statuette in the Smithsonian's collection, scanned (scaled, toned as bronze)Smithsonian Institution · CC0 1.0
Statue, Daniel Chester French's sketch model for the Lincoln Memorial, scanned (scaled, in marble)jerryfisher · CC BY 4.0
Statue, a bronze statuette of James Garfield in the Smithsonian's collection, scanned (scaled, toned as bronze)Smithsonian Institution · CC0 1.0
Statue, Charles Henry Niehaus' plaster model of Benjamin Harrison, scanned (the library's lighter version; scaled, toned as bronze)IU Indianapolis University Library · CC BY 4.0
Bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a 1930s souvenir in painted plaster, scanned (scaled, toned as bronze)Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History · CC BY 4.0
Statue, Dwight Eisenhower of StudioEIS's American Way series at National Harbor, scanned (ground cut, scaled, toned as bronze)3D_Geek · CC BY 4.0
Bust of John F. Kennedy, captured with Polycam (scaled)frontrowlive · CC BY 4.0
Statue, Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, scanned (scaled, toned as bronze)David Wigforss · CC BY-NC 4.0

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Hall of the Roman Empire

Hall 2 · modelled on Pantheon, Rome, Italy

The rotunda inside, measured on a photogrammetry scan of it (the piers, bays, columns, aediculae, entablature, attic and coffers)artfletch · CC BY 4.0
The floor's pavonazzetto and giallo antico, and the walls' pavonazzetto, cut from a photograph of the floorSzilas · CC0 1.0
The walls' africano, pale giallo antico and brown breccia, cut from a photograph of a pierTm · Public domain
The portico's entablature with Agrippa's inscription, the pediment and the columns' granite, from a photograph of the façadeJulian Lupyan · CC0 1.0
The portico's Corinthian capitals, a scan of a Roman capital from the theatre of Tarraco, MNAT 7593 (recoloured as marble, scaled)Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona · CC BY 4.0
The Corinthian capitals of the rotunda's columns and pilasters, the Capitol's, made whole from a scan of a Roman capital from the Harbour Baths of Ephesus in the Ephesos Museum, Vienna (one half-face mirrored and turned, whitened, scaled)iedu360.eu · CC BY 4.0
The drum's cornices, the dome's steps and the portico's heights, measured on the elevation (1682)Antoine Desgodetz · Public domain
The same, measured on the section (1682), scanned by the RijksmuseumAntoine Desgodetz · CC0 1.0
The portico's columns, the intermediate block and the doorway, measured on the planGeorg Dehio and Gustav von Bezold · Public domain
The drum's brick (Church Bricks 03)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The portico's and the cornices' marble, and without its joints the white marble inside (Marble 01)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The dark grey granite of the emperors' steles (Granite Tile 03, greyed and darkened)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The dome's plaster inside (White Plaster 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The grain of the dome's lead (Concrete Wall 004)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Statue, Josef Beyer's Julius Caesar (1900), Austrian Parliament, Vienna, scanned (scaled)noe-3d.at · CC0 1.0

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Hall of Greek Philosophers

Hall 3 · modelled on Parthenon, Athens, Greece

The cella's plan (its walls, doors and porches, the naos's colonnade and the statue's base), measured on a floor plan; the other dimensions as publishedIo Herodotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
The weathered marble of the walls, floors, columns and roof, and of Aristotle's base (Floor Tiles 02, its colour drawn toward Pentelic)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The dark Eleusinian stone of the philosophers' steles (Floor Tiles 06, four of its dark squares, recoloured)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Diogenes' jar, a pithos made in a Cretan pottery and weathered outdoors, scanned (simplified, laid on its side, its colours a little less saturated)elladios_christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
The doors' bronze patina and its pitting (Rust Coarse 01, recoloured)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The east pediment's figures in the British Museum, scanned in the gallery (their plinths cut off, each group set where it stood in the pediment, simplified)artfletch · CC BY 4.0
Metope, south XXXI, a Lapith and a centaur (British Museum), processed from Daniel Pett's photographs (simplified, repeated round the building)ryanfb · CC BY 4.0
Metope, south XXX, a Lapith and a centaur (British Museum) (simplified, repeated round the building)Ancient World 3D · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Metope from the south side in the British Museum (the gallery wall cut away, simplified, repeated round the building)aurobotics.cat · CC BY 4.0
Metope, south X, a centaur carrying off a Lapith woman (Louvre) (its mount cut away, simplified, repeated round the building)AnDeNan · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Frieze, west block II, two horsemen (British Museum), drawn straight on with its relief, repeated round the cellaDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Frieze, north blocks XXXVI to XXXVIII, the cavalcade (British Museum), drawn as aboveDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Frieze, south block XLI, heifers led to the sacrifice (British Museum), drawn as aboveDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Frieze, south blocks IX, X and XI, horsemen (British Museum), drawn as aboveDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Frieze, north block XLVII, youths with a heifer (British Museum), drawn as aboveDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Frieze, south block III, two horsemen (British Museum), drawn as aboveDaniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
Statue of Aristotle in the stairwell of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW-DOC-00003), scanned by Harald Wraunek (cut from its niche, its back closed flat, its warm light evened out, simplified)Natural History Museum Vienna · CC BY-NC 4.0

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Hall of Vietnamese Commanders

Hall 4 · modelled on Văn Miếu – Quốc Tử Giám (Temple of Literature), Hà Nội, Việt Nam

The plan (enclosure, courtyards, gates, buildings, ponds, lawns and the four pillars), measured from the map and turned to the temple's axisOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The roofs' tiles (Clay Roof Tiles 03, weathered to grey-brown, and left terracotta on the court of great worship)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The walls' and platforms' old brick, and the ponds' inside (Red Brick Plaster Patch 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The grey stone of the steps and sills (Large Sandstone Blocks)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The sky the ponds reflect, the campus's (Kloofendal 48d Partly Cloudy, Pure Sky)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The courts' square brick (Square Pavers)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The four pillars' whitewash (White Plaster 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The lime render of the gates, piers, ponds' balustrades and plastered walls (Painted Plaster Wall), weathered by the pagePoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The pillars' mossy plinths (Worn Mossy Plasterwall)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The doors' wood, lacquered red or left bare (Fine Grained Wood)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The pillars' inscriptions and their lanterns' carvings, cut from a photograph of the pillars (2014), and their tops modelled after itDaderot · CC0 1.0
The nghê on the pillars, modelled after a photograph of one (2025)Hoangvantoanajc · CC0 1.0
Văn Miếu Môn, modelled after a photograph of its street front (2015)Grayswoodsurrey · CC BY-SA 4.0
Văn Miếu Môn's inner front, modelled after a photograph (2024)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
Văn Miếu Môn's side and corner pillars, modelled after a photograph (2018)Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The whitewashed end walls of Đại Trung and Đại Thành Môn, modelled after a photograph (2024)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
Khuê Văn Các's carved pier faces, cut from a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
Thành Đức and Đạt Tài, the side gates beside Đại Trung Môn (their arches, pilasters, key-fret band and name panel), modelled after a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The side gates' crests (posts with stepped caps, the cartouche of clouds) and the parapets stepping up to them, modelled after a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The balustrade walls either side of Đại Trung Môn, their piers, sunk panels and pierced bands, modelled after a photograph of the first court (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The balustrade walls and side gates seen down the first court, after a photograph (2024)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The brick walls' mossy render copings and a side gate by Khuê Văn Các, modelled after a photograph (2024)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The hooded side gates by Khuê Văn Các and the posts of Thiên Quang well's balustrade, modelled after a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The carved lunette over Văn Miếu Môn's passage, cut from a photograph of the street front (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
Văn Miếu Môn's key-fret windows and balustrade, Hữu Môn's and Tả Môn's doors and the gates' weathered render, modelled after photographs of the street front (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
Hữu Môn's door and weathered render, modelled after a photograph (2022)Ltn12345 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The open doors and thresholds of Đại Thành Môn and Cửa Thái Học, modelled after photographs (2022)Ltn12345 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Đại Thành Môn's middle row and the piers of its end walls, modelled after a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
Đại Trung Môn's open bays, the piers and capitals of its end walls and the balustrade wall beside it, modelled after a photograph (2024)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The ponds' balustrades, their posts, brick and water, modelled after a photograph of a first-court pond (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The lotus leaves on the first court's ponds, after a photograph of them (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
Thiên Quang well's balustrade and gates, modelled after a photograph (2010)Jean-Pierre Dalbéra · CC BY 2.0
The stone turtles under the stelae, sculpted after photographs of the real ones, this of a row of them with their heads raised, their carved scutes and rims (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The turtles' pug-faced head and clawed feet, after a photograph of one (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The turtles' long-necked head and domed shell, after a photograph of one (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
A turtle's head from the side, its eye, brow and mouth, after a photograph (2008)McKay Savage · CC BY 2.0
The turtles' heads along a row, long-necked and close to the shell, after a photograph (2016)katiebordner · CC BY 2.0
The turtles' and stelae's limestone grain (Rock 01)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The lichen on the turtles and stelae (Lichen Rock)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The Bái Đường's bays, heights, steps, end bays and the dragons on its ridge, measured on and modelled after a photograph of its front (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The Bái Đường's board 萬世師表, the middle bay's frieze and west couplet and the altar's carved front, cut from a photograph (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The Bái Đường's side-bay frieze and its couplets, cut from a photograph, and the framing, floor and back court after it (2014)Daderot · CC0 1.0
The middle bay's east couplet, cut from a photograph, and the lanterns, cranes and bell after it (2010)Jorge Láscar · CC BY 2.0
The bronze cranes on turtles by the altar, modelled after a photograph of one (2022)Shyamal · CC0 1.0
The Tiểu Đình between the Bái Đường and the Thượng Điện, modelled after a photograph (2022)Ltn12345 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Hall of Scientists

Hall 5 · modelled on Blå hallen (Blue Hall), Stockholm City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

The plan of the City Hall's ground floor, 19 December 1916 (the building's and the Blue Hall's dimensions)Ragnar Östberg (Wikimedia Commons) · Public domain
The building's outline and the heights of its ranges and towersOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The brick (Large Red Bricks)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The floor's Kolmården marble (cut from Marble 01 into crazy paving), the white marble of the bands, stairs and balustradesPoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The columns' granite and the plinths' ashlar (Granite Tile 03)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The copper's verdigris (Rust Coarse 01, turned grey-green) and the grain of the fronts' bricks, laid brick by brick in monk bondPoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The ceiling's and aisles' plaster (White Plaster 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The west range's roof tiles (Clay Roof Tiles 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Borgargården's setts (Cobblestone Floor 08)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The doors' wood (Fine Grained Wood)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The polished dark granite of the scientists' steles and pedestals (Granite Tile, quilted from its tiles without their joints)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Galileo by Pio Fedi, Queen's University Belfast, scanned with a phone (its plinth and the floor cut away, simplified)1manscan · CC BY 4.0
Statue of Johannes Kepler in the stairwell of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW-DOC-00004), scanned by Harald Wraunek (cut from its niche, its warm light evened out, simplified)Natural History Museum Vienna · CC BY-NC 4.0
Statue of Isaac Newton in the stairwell of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW-DOC-00005), scanned by Harald Wraunek (cut from its niche, its warm light evened out, simplified)Natural History Museum Vienna · CC BY-NC 4.0
Charles Darwin by Joseph Edgar Boehm, Natural History Museum, London, scanned (the hall behind cut away, simplified)juanbrualla (Arqueomodel3D) · CC BY-NC 4.0
Albert Einstein by Jesús Gazol, Zaragoza, scanned (simplified, toned to one bronze)loisanton (Luis Val) · CC BY-NC 4.0

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Hall of Renaissance Masters

Hall 6 · modelled on Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Vatican

The plan, the section, the floor's design, the screen's reliefs and the cantoria, from the plates of Ernst Steinmann, Die Sixtinische Kapelle, vol. 1 (Munich, 1901); the outside after its section and its photograph of the west endErnst Steinmann (Internet Archive, Getty Research Institute) · Public domain
Michelangelo's ceiling, the photographic composite of the whole vaultWeb Gallery of Art · Public domain
The Last JudgmentWikimedia Commons (photograph of Michelangelo's fresco) · Public domain
The fourteen lunettes of Christ's ancestors (Eleazar and Matthan: a photograph of the book by Pierluigi de Vecchi)Web Gallery of Art · Public domain
The histories: Perugino's Journey of Moses and Baptism of Christ, Botticelli's Trials of Moses, Punishment of Korah and Temptations of Christ, Rosselli's Crossing of the Red Sea, Descent from Sinai, Sermon on the Mount and Last Supper, Signorelli's Testament of Moses, Ghirlandaio's Calling of the Apostles, Perugino's Delivery of the Keys, Matteo da Lecce's Dispute over the Body of Moses, van den Broeck's ResurrectionWikimedia Commons (photographs of the frescoes) · Public domain
The popes in their niches (Botticelli's ten; Perugino's two; Sixtus II, Alexander I, Evaristus, Anacletus, Dionysius)Wikimedia Commons (photographs of the frescoes) · Public domain
The window zone, the draperies, the painted pilaster and the friezes, from an elevation of two bays of the north wallWeb Gallery of Art · Public domain
The painted draperies, straightened from a photograph of the chapel (Secretary Blinken's visit, 2021); the silver ones the same in greyU.S. Department of State · Public domain
The marble of the seat, the screen, the altar, the steps and the floor's ground (the middle of one slab of Marble 01, lightened), and of the masters' steles (the same, whitened); the travertine outside (the same, toned and pitted)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The outside's roof, gallery, parapet, attic, windows and buttresses, modelled after a photograph from St Peter's dome (2024)Air fans · CC0 1.0
The south side and its buttresses, modelled after a photograph from St Peter's dome (2011)Jean-Pol Grandmont · CC BY-SA 4.0
The brick outside, re-laid in the chapel's thin courses from the bricks of Brick Wall 09Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The render of the attic and the pediments and the buttresses' faces (Painted Plaster Wall)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The roofs' coppi (Roof 09, weathered pale)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0

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Hall of Composers

Hall 7 · modelled on Musikverein, Großer Saal (Golden Hall), Vienna, Austria

The organ case, the balustrades' relief, a cartouche of the podium's wall and the frieze under the ceiling, straightened from photographs of the hall; its levels measured on themMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
The rear balcony's balustrade (its relief) and the rear wall's windowsMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
The octagons either side of the ceiling's paintings (one, straightened from a photograph of the ceiling, repeated)Michał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
August Eisenmenger's paintings of Apollo and the Muses in the ceiling's middle, the first three from the organ, straightened with their framesNo Kangaroos in Austria · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eisenmenger's ceiling paintings, the next fourNo Kangaroos in Austria · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eisenmenger's ceiling paintings, the last threeNo Kangaroos in Austria · CC BY-SA 4.0
The hall's sides and caryatids, measured and comparedC.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0
The front's pediment, its relief straightened from a photograph of the frontAcediscovery · CC BY 4.0
The fronts' heights, measured on photographs of the front and the sideC.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0
The long side's bays, its figures (white at the corners, putti between) and its doors, read on a photograph of the front and the sideC.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0
The long side's nine bays, its glazed doors and side portal, read on a photograph of itMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
The ground storey's piers, windows under pediments on ochre consoles, mezzanine windows and relief panels, read on a photograph of the cornerMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
The rustication's blocks and channelled joints and the cornice's modillions, read on a close photographMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
The long side's proportions (piers, windows, square windows, balustrade panels, reliefs), read on a photograph of itDguendel · CC BY 4.0
The long side's bays and side portal, counted on a photograph of the front and the sideChoinowski · CC BY-SA 4.0
The front's wing, its windows and doors under pediments, read on a photograph of itGeographer · CC BY-SA 4.0
The putti making music and the balustrade's ochre balusters, the capitals' ochre volutes, read on a photograph of themGeolina163 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The building's outline and height, and the long sides' piersOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The caryatids, cast from Dikart's model of their plaster caryatid (stood up, scaled to 3.6 m, its capital drawn in, simplified, its detail baked into normal, occlusion and curvature maps, gilt)Dikart · CC BY 4.0
The white figures outside, cast from a scan of the Erechtheion caryatid in the British Museum (stood up, scaled, simplified)Daniel Pett · CC BY 4.0
The parquet (Herringbone Parquet)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The boxes' and seats' velvet (Velour Velvet, deepened to crimson)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The walls' plaster (Plastered Wall 04, tinted cream and red)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The white marble of the composers' pedestals and steles, and the rear columns' red (Marble 01)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The wood of the windows' frames, the soffits and the long sides' doors outside (Fine Grained Wood)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The doors' wood, walnut and mahogany, and the relief under the street doors' paint (Dark Wood)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The balcony's doors (their walnut leaves, panels, levers and cream and gilt cases), read on a photograph from the balconyGeolina163 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The balcony doors' frieze of gilt rosettes, their cornice and pediment, read on a photograph of oneGeolina163 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The doors to the side corridors (dark wood under a panelled overdoor, in a red bay), read on a photograph of the boxesMichał Bulsa · CC BY-SA 4.0
A side corridor's door standing open under its overdoor, read on a photograph from the boxesFss.fer · CC BY-SA 4.0
The vestibule's mahogany doors, their panels, transom and lozenge glazing, read on a photograph of the ground floorGeolina163 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The front's three doors on the street (the screens' leaves, wrought lozenges, lights and fanlights), read on a photograph of the portal (CC BY 2.0 Austria)Clemens Pfeiffer · CC BY 2.0
The parterre chairs' oak (Oak Veneer 01)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The fronts' render (Painted Plaster Wall, tinted terracotta, cream and ochre)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The ground storey's rustication, its blocks' coarse render (White Stucco 02, laid in courses between channelled joints)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The pavement round the building and the plinth (Granite Tile 04, paled)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The roofs' sheet metal (Metal Plate 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Statue of Ludwig van Beethoven from Caspar von Zumbusch's Beethoven Monument, Vienna (1880), scanned (simplified, toned to one bronze)noe-3d.at · CC0 1.0
Mozart's figure from Viktor Tilgner's Mozart Monument in the Burggarten, Vienna (1896), scanned (cut from its pedestal, its colours evened out, simplified)noe-3d.at · CC BY-NC 4.0
Bust of Joseph Haydn in Hainburg an der Donau, scanned (simplified, toned to one bronze)noe-3d.at · CC BY 4.0
Louis-François Roubiliac's bust of Handel, the Huntington Library, Pasadena, scanned (simplified)jetblaque69 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Statue of Franz Schubert from Carl Kundmann's Schubert Monument in the Stadtpark, Vienna (1872), scanned (cut from its pedestal, its colours evened out, simplified)noe-3d.at · CC0 1.0
Statue of Johannes Brahms from Rudolf Weyr's Brahms Monument, Vienna (1908), scanned (its colours evened out, simplified)noe-3d.at · CC0 1.0
Bronze memorial bust of Frédéric Chopin, Horváth-kert, Budapest, scanned (cut from its pedestal and the wall behind it, simplified, toned to one bronze)BodikeHun · CC BY 4.0
Richard Wagner Memorial Bust, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore (R. P. Golde, 1900), scanned (cut from its pedestal, simplified, toned to one bronze)Taylor (thoulihan) · CC BY 4.0

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Hall of Explorers

Hall 8 · modelled on Cloister of the Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, Portugal

The plan of the monastery (the cloister's courtyard, the church, the ranges) and the garden's basin and lawns, measured from the map and turned to the cloister's sidesOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The upper storey's frieze of heads in roundels and lozenges, the terrace parapet's scrolls, the upper archivolt, the upper piers' studded shafts and the niche with a saint, cut from a photograph of the cloister's north-west corner (2017)xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0
The lower buttresses' carved faces and bases and the lower arches' soffits, cut from a photograph of the lower arcade (2025); the storeys' heights measured on it by the people in itJakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The bays, the tracery and the garden, modelled after photographs of the cloister from its upper storey (2025)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The south portal in relief (its photograph straightened, the sky cut away, raised by its depths and its carving's shading), the church's lioz walls in their courses, the front's frieze and the windows' carved band, from a photograph of the portal (2018)Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south front, the bell tower and the porter's lodge, modelled after a photograph from the street (2022)Yair Haklai · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south front and the bell tower (the buttresses, the windows' frames and hoods, the cresting, the tower's belfry, parapet and dome), modelled after photographs from the street and the gardens (2011)Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0
The front from the street, the transept and its annex (their plain walls, carved band and the annex's oculus), the west bays' windows, modelled after a photograph (2025)Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
The bell tower's belfry, roundels, flying scrolls, arcaded parapet, dome, ball and cross, modelled after a photograph (2026)Norbert Nagel · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south front from the west (the portal's depth, the buttresses and their pinnacles), modelled after a photograph (2006)Vitor Oliveira · CC BY 2.0
The Lion Fountain in the north-west corner, cut from a photogrammetry scan of the cornercarlosfaustino · CC BY 4.0
The lioz limestone of the cloister's walls, mouldings and floors (Marble 01, lightened and warmed)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The steles' black Mem Martins limestone, from a dark square of Floor Tiles 06, darkened, its veins whitenedPoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The roofs' tiles (Clay Roof Tiles 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The garden as it is today (the basin, its kerb and floor, the lawns, the diagonal paths and the ring round the basin), modelled after photographs from the upper storey (2026)Norbert Nagel · CC BY-SA 4.0
The basin's jet as it played in 2011, its height and fall measured on a photograph from the upper walkGerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0
The gutter of white pebbles and its kerb along the platform's step, modelled after a photograph from the upper walk (2021)Joseolgon · CC BY-SA 4.0
The garden's gravel paths, saibro (Gravel Floor 02, toned to the photographs, with its relief)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The gutter's white pebbles (Clean Pebbles, whitened)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The lawns (Leafy Grass's light and shade, coloured as a mown lawn)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0

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Hall of Chinese Emperors & Sages

Hall 9 · modelled on Hall of Supreme Harmony (太和殿), Forbidden City, Beijing, China

The terrace's three tiers and the three stairs up its front, measured from the mapOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The roof's glazed ornaments (the dragon-headed ridge ends, the immortal on the phoenix and the ten beasts, the hip beasts and the corners' capping heads) from a model of the hall's upper roof (simplified, in one glaze, set on each of the eight corners)TRNKL · CC BY 4.0
The bronze censers, a scan of a tripod censer with dragon handles (simplified, toned as bronze, given a lid and a stand)JFN · CC BY 4.0
The painted beams, bracket sets and rafter ends, cut from a photograph of the hall's front (2020)Balon Greyjoy · CC0 1.0
The carved ramp of the middle stair, its clouds and dragons straightened from a photographFrancesco Bini · CC BY-SA 4.0
The ramp's foot of waves and mountains, from a photographFrancesco Bini · CC BY-SA 4.0
The red lacquer of the columns inside and in the gallery (its streaks, blotches and wear, toned to the old vermilion)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The fine cracks of the columns' lacquerPoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The gold bricks of the floor (taken to the dark grey of oiled and waxed clay)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The plaster of the walls inside (toned to their buff)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The luduan either side of the Dragon Throne, a scan of a temple lion censer, one of a pair, 17th century (simplified)Minneapolis Institute of Art · CC BY-SA 4.0
The bronze tortoises, modelled after a photograph of the east one (2024)Patrick20242023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The bronze tortoises, modelled after a close photograph of the west one in the morning light (2024)Patrick20242023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The tortoises' shells, modelled after a photograph of one (2014)Jklamo · CC BY-SA 4.0
The bronze cranes, modelled after a photograph of the west one (2024)Patrick20242023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The bronze cranes, modelled after a close photograph of the east one in the morning light (2024)Patrick20242023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The tortoises' marble bases, modelled after a photograph of one (2010)thierrytutin · CC BY 2.0
The cranes' marble bases, modelled after a photograph of one (2010)thierrytutin · CC BY 2.0
The terrace's white marble (Marble 01), also the bronzes' basesPoly Haven · CC0 1.0
The pavers of the court and the terrace (Concrete Pavers 02)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The slabs along the axis (Granite Tile 04)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The bronzes' cast grain, the patina's mottling and its roughness (Rust Coarse 01, recoloured)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The red lacquer of the steles (Lacquered Cherry Wood, taken to vermilion, with its scratches in the gloss)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Figure of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang from the exhibition "Die Terrakotta Armee" in Lübeck, scanned (cut from its cushion, scaled, toned to one clay colour)Henryk Furs · CC BY 4.0

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Hall of Military Commanders

Hall 10 · modelled on Dôme des Invalides, Paris, France

Napoleon's tomb and the open crypt (the sarcophagus, the twelve Victories, the gallery of reliefs, the mosaic floor), photogrammetry (scaled, turned, cut at the crossing's floor, simplified)PolarNick239 · CC BY 4.0
The drum, the inner cupola with the apostles and La Fosse's painted cupola, from a photograph straight up into the dome (unwrapped round the oculus and mapped onto their shapes)Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The north-west pendentive's Evangelist (La Fosse), from a photograph straightenedMiguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 4.0
The north-east pendentive's Evangelist, from a photograph straightenedMiguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south-east pendentive's Evangelist, from a photograph straightenedMiguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south-west pendentive's Evangelist, from a photograph straightenedMiguel Hermoso Cuesta · CC BY-SA 4.0
The plan of the church and the compartments of its marble pavement (1698–1701), measured, and the pavement redrawn from it compartment by compartmentRobert de Cotte's office (Bibliothèque nationale de France) · Public domain
The crossing's levels, the main order and the vaults, measured on the transverse section (1691)Robert de Cotte's office (Bibliothèque nationale de France) · Public domain
The drum's windows and buttresses, measured on the section at the cupola's springing (1687)Robert de Cotte's office (Bibliothèque nationale de France) · Public domain
The heights of the drum, the cupolas, the dome, the lantern and the cross, measured on the section (1756)Gabriel-Louis Pérau (scan by G. Garitan) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The south front's heights, measured on its elevationNicolas de Fer, publisher (Paris Musées) · CC0 1.0
The church's outline, against which the plan was checkedOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The crossing's Corinthian capitals, a scan of a Roman capital from the theatre of Tarraco, MNAT 7593 (recoloured, scaled; shared with the Pantheon)Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona · CC BY 4.0
The limestone of the walls (Marble 01, a cream ashlar, whitened), and the black marble of the commanders' tablets and Napoleon's pedestal (one slab of it, turned black)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The portal's two leaves, carved, painted and gilt, from a photograph of them shut (cut, a visitors' sign before one stile filled from the other, the carving's height and normals taken from it, weathered)Jebulon · Public domain
The oak's grain under the paint of the portal's leaves (Oak Veneer 01, its normals and roughness)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
Napoleon on horseback, Piotr Michałowski's bronze figurine (National Museum in Kraków, MNK II-rz-211), photogrammetry (enlarged to life size, simplified)Virtual Museums of Małopolska (scanned by the Małopolska Institute of Culture's digitisation workshop, RDW MIC) · CC BY 4.0

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Hall of Inventors & Engineers

Hall 11 · modelled on The Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition of 1851), London, United Kingdom

The plans, elevations, sections and details the building is measured from: Charles Downes, The Building Erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (London: Weale, 1852), with Charles Cowper's descriptionCharles Downes (Internet Archive, McGill University Library) · Public domain
The heights, the transept's 108 ft, the canvas and Owen Jones's colours: Peter Berlyn and Charles Fowler, The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels (London: Gilbert, 1851)Peter Berlyn and Charles Fowler (Project Gutenberg) · Public domain
Osler's Crystal Fountain as photographed for the Reports by the Juries (1851), after which it is drawnClaude-Marie Ferrier and Friedrich von Martens (attributed), printed by Nicolaas Henneman (Rijksmuseum) · Public domain
The elms kept in the transept (an elm, Ulmus; its pictures resized)Georgeous · CC BY 4.0
The boarded floor and the galleries' floors, laid with open joints (Plank Flooring 03, its stains evened, greyed toward trodden deal)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The boarding of the ground tier's walls (Distressed Painted Planks, taken to cream)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The lead flats (Metal Plate 02, greyed)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The calico over the roofs and inside the south sashes (Rough Linen, undyed)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The unevenness, sheen and chips of the steles' paint (Green Metal Rust, its colour taken out)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The relief of the steles' sand-cast iron under its paint (Rusty Metal 02, its normal map)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The Alan Turing Memorial, Glyn Hughes's bronze in Sackville Park, Manchester, scanned (the paving cut away, simplified, toned to one weathered bronze)vmastilovic · CC BY 4.0

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Hall of Writers & Poets

Hall 12 · modelled on Shakespeare's Globe, London, United Kingdom

Where the yard doors and the stair towers stand round the playhouse, and the yard's size, from its outline (the dimensions are Orrell's, as published)OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
The heavens' coffered sky, the frieze of the planets and the grisaille figures on the frons's returns, cut from a photograph and straightenedNo Swan So Fine · CC BY-SA 4.0
The middle door's leaves and the stage posts' red marble, cut from a photograph and straightenedJack1956 · CC0 1.0
The marbled panels of the frons scenae, cut from a photograph and straightenedMcKay Savage · CC BY 2.0
The grisailles of the gentlemen's rooms, cut from a photograph and straightenedIan Hughes · CC BY 4.0
The water reed of the roof (Riet 01, its colour drawn toward the Globe's)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The limewashed plaster (White Plaster 02, lightened and warmed, with its relief)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The oak of the frame within, and the boards of the stage, the floors and the benches (Wood Planks, with its relief)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The weathered oak of the frame without (one plank of Wood Planks Grey, lightened)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The yard's concrete (Concrete Floor 02, lightened and greyed, with its relief)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The brick of the plinth (Medieval Red Brick)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The oak of the writers' steles (Oak Wood Planks, darkened and warmed to old oak, the relief of its grain taken from it)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
William Shakespeare Statue, scanned (simplified, toned to one bronze)davidgersch · CC BY 4.0

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The campus

The sky, the lawns and paving, the avenue maples and the plaza’s obelisk

The sky over the campus: Kloofendal 48d Partly Cloudy (Pure Sky), a photographed sky (resized)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The lawns: Sparse Grass, a photographed texture (resized, recoloured)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The avenues’ and the plaza’s pavers: Patterned Paving (resized)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The forecourts’ herringbone brick: Herringbone Pavement (resized)Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The avenue maples: Maple tree, a model of a sugar maple (its meshes merged, its patch of ground dropped, its leaves cut out)atrodler · CC BY 4.0
The hieroglyphs on the plaza’s obelisk, cut from an etching of the Luxor Obelisk’s faces: Relevé des hiéroglyphes de l’obélisque occidental de Louqsor (Plans de la Concorde, pl. 1), Musée Carnavalet, via Paris MuséesWilliam Miller · CC0 1.0
The granite of the obelisk, its pedestal and steps: Granite Tile 03 (one slab, resized)Charlotte Baglioni, Poly Haven · CC0 1.0
The obelisk’s dimensions, from L’obélisque de Luxor : histoire de sa translation à Paris (1839)Jean-Baptiste Apollinaire Lebas · Public domain
The pedestal’s profile and the gilded cap’s height, measured on a photograph (2011)Jebulon · CC0 1.0
The pedestal, measured on a photograph (2010)Jebulon · Public domain