The Mission

The Heritage aims to enhance the accessibility and preservation of valuable art, particularly focusing on cultural heritage pieces all over the world, starting with Limburg region. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, smart contracts and high-fidelity scanning, The Heritage creates a secure, transparent, and globally accessible digital archive. This allows private collectors, institutions, and art enthusiasts worldwide to access and display digital versions of classic and contemporary art while ensuring the preservation of cultural treasures and their names through exhibitions and collaborations with galleries and museums.

The Challenge

Many valuable artworks are hidden in private collections, museums or have limited access due to geographical and physical constraints, making them inaccessible to a global audience. In addition, high transaction costs, commissions and possibility of being lost or stolen often limit the art market, discouraging collectors and artists to promote their art. Hence, it is not allowing them to increase the value of their artworks and not incentivising them to preserve cultural heritage for the next generations. Indeed, the cultural preservation of lesser-known but historically significant artworks, worldwide and particularly from the Limburg region, is under threat, and digital solutions are needed to make them accessible, protected and preserved.

The solution

The Heritage offers a comprehensive digital platform that digitises classical and contemporary artworks, making them globally accessible. The Heritage enables secure trading, renting/licensing, and display of digital art by using blockchain technology, smart contracts, and custom display through our prototypes "TheHeritage Nodes". The platform preserves valuable cultural heritage and expands its reach by organising global digital exhibitions and providing educational content to foster appreciation of art. This approach offers a more inclusive, transparent, and technologically advanced way of interacting with and preserving art. In addition, from the commercial perspective, we give an ability to art owners and artists to monetise their assets without even selling them. We make art not an expense, but a real investment.