AR for Virtual Restoration

Among the possibilities offered by Augmented Reality is its potential use to give new life to works of art in museums, through the implementation of integration or completion in an operation that can be called virtual restoration. Without modifying the works of art in their current state of preservation in order to maintain their evocative power and, in particular, without invasive interventions on the signs left by time, through digital visualisation tools it is possible to provide users with a new way of re-reading objects and telling stories around them. The contribution aims to present the results of virtual restoration operations carried out on some statuary works in the collection of the Museum of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica in Rome, where innovative technologies are compared with the immense Heritage of the Museum, animating the exhibition itinerary by offering new points of view of the works through the creation of an interactive AR application.