Exército Português · Digital Heritage
Three Matterport captures for the Portuguese Army — the Academia Militar, the Museu Militar de Lisboa, and the room where the 25th of April started. A digital archive of buildings that don't open every day, including a few that don't appear on any map.
The Portuguese Army custodies some of the country's most consequential interiors — academic halls that have trained officers for over two centuries, a museum built around centuries of national defence, and at least one room where Portuguese democracy was reset overnight.
The brief, when stripped back: preserve the access. Open it to anyone who can't reach it in person. Without compromising what stays restricted.
Three buildings, three scans, one standard.
Matterport Pro capture across the Academia Militar (officer training, including the general's office that isn't on any visitor map), the Museu Militar de Lisboa (centuries of armoury and exhibit halls, end-to-end), and the precise room where the 25 de Abril revolution began — a location not marked on civilian maps and rarely shown to anyone outside the institution.
Captured with the curator's eye.
Each scan was briefed with on-site historians and unit commanders. Lighting decisions, route choices, hotspot annotations — all reviewed in-person, so the digital version reads the way the institution wants to be remembered. No artistic licence, no sloppy crops.
Built for three audiences at once.
Marketing uses it for recruitment campaigns. Schools open it in classrooms across the country. Historians cite specific rooms by URL. The same asset, three working lives — and one quiet fourth: a permanent record, in case any of these spaces ever changes.
Three of Portugal's most consequential institutional interiors — including a room that helped end a dictatorship — now have a permanent, walkable, citable digital twin. Used by recruiters to open the door, by teachers to bring the country into classrooms, and by anyone curious enough to walk past a velvet rope that, online, doesn't exist.