Celje Regional Museum
Interdisciplinary Collection Integration
Interdisciplinary Collection Integration
Founded in 1882, the Celje Regional Museum holds an unusually wide span of heritage under one roof: a monumental painted ceiling (14.5 × 9.7 m) preserved in situ, the archaeological remains of the Roman town of Celeia, medieval artefacts tied to the noble Counts of Celje, and ethnographic treasures gathered by the early-twentieth-century traveller Alma Karlin.
That range, archaeology, art history, ethnography, is exactly what makes unifying the collection difficult. MNEME is being used to demonstrate cross-domain semantic linking, so curators, researchers and visitors can move from the brushwork of the painted ceiling to the foundations of Roman Celeia and onward to Karlin’s Asian collection without losing the thread connecting them.
What MNEME brings
Photogrammetric scanning of the ceiling is producing a gigapixel-class image mosaic; 3D laser scanning is capturing the Celeia excavation trenches and architectural remains; multi-spectral imaging is being applied to medieval manuscripts and regalia; and Karlin’s diaries and object inventories are being turned into structured metadata.
Each of these is ingested into MNEME’s knowledge graph, where AI routines look for shared stylistic and material features across collections, identifying, for instance, decorative motifs common to Roman mosaics and later paintings, or tracing how textile patterns from Karlin’s Asian notebooks echo in local folk costume.
The experience
In the museum’s ceiling gallery, a multi-touch table lets visitors zoom into brushstroke-level detail, see conservation notes, and pull up related motifs from the Rhône and AMTh collections. In a cross-pilot moment, selecting a mosaic fragment from the Celeia display instantly surfaces comparable Iberian-period tiles from Monteagudo.
A second station turns Alma Karlin’s travels into an interactive world map: click on an object she brought back from Asia and trace its visual links to Slovenian folk art, scored by AI-driven similarity. Alongside this, a remote-accessible “Interdisciplinary Celje Tour” invites international researchers to build their own thematic exhibitions from the same material.
Goals for this pilot
At least 200 artefacts ingested, 80%+ with complete metadata; 50+ cross-domain semantic links established; 70%+ interaction rate at the ceiling and mapping stations; a 20%+ increase in school participation, with at least four regional classes taking part; semantic query responses under 3 seconds.