Heritage Conservation and Cultural Preservation

Dive into Heritage

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Published 2025

Generously funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dive into Heritage is an online platform that uses cutting-the-edge digital technologies to offer a unique and immersive experience of World Heritage and its related intangible heritage. The platform enables users to explore heritage sites through free, interactive and guided experiences using 3D models, geolocated narratives, and other media images and videos. It also aims to serve as a useful tool for sites monitoring and conservation, offering added value to the existing monitoring mechanisms of the World Heritage Convention.

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Topics

3D scanningAR cultural experiencesCase StudyDatasetDigital Documentation and ArchivingHeritage BIMPredictive Conservation and Risk AssessmentVirtual Reality Experiences and Educationconservation AIcultural heritage VRdigital archivesdocumentation workflowsheritage XR visualizationheritage digitizationimmersive educationmuseum VR

Cite this paper

@misc{fd681986,
  title = {Dive into Heritage},
  author = {UNESCO World Heritage Centre},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://whc.unesco.org/en/dive-into-heritage/}},
  url = {https://whc.unesco.org/en/dive-into-heritage/},
  urldate = {2026-08-04},
  note = {Heritage Conservation and Cultural Preservation}
}