What MetaHeritage does

MetaHeritage S.R.L. is a privately held Italian digital design studio headquartered in Milan that delivers technology-enabled services to cultural-heritage institutions. Its stated focus is the application of new technologies — described by the company as "Virtual Heritage" — to the promotion, dissemination, and preservation of cultural assets. The company's offerings fall into three integrated service lines: digital humanities (2D and 3D digitization of objects ranging from coins to entire castles, executed with laser scanners, aerial drones, and underwater drones); inclusivity solutions (Braille panels integrating tactile graphics and high-legibility print, tactile paths using 3D-printed reproductions, 3D printing via FDM and LFS technologies, Italian Sign Language videos, and audio guides); and multimedia installations (touch totems, immersive rooms, and interactive redesign of museum rooms and pavilions). The team is composed of archaeologists, 3D artists, and graphic designers, and service delivery is grounded in compliance with accessibility and inclusion frameworks including the UN Convention 2006, the Italian Ministry of Culture's P.E.B.A. Strategic Plan, the Faro Convention, and technical standards UNI EN 15823:2010, ISO 17049:2013, ADA, and DPR 503/96.

The business model is professional services, sold on a custom project basis to cultural-heritage buyers such as museums, archaeological sites, and cultural venues. Distribution is direct, via the metaheritage.it website and email channels ([email protected], [email protected]), with no disclosed partnerships, resellers, or intermediary channels. The company markets itself through a bilingual Italian/English web presence and through the related 7emezzo.biz domain, and reports cumulative operational outputs of approximately 101 million elaborated polygons and 50,250 development hours. There is no disclosed pricing, no disclosed revenue, no disclosed headcount, no disclosed external investment, and no disclosed customer list, indicating a small, independently financed studio whose scale and commercial traction cannot be verified from the available information.

Name

MetaHeritage

Legal name

METAHERITAGE S.R.L.

Website

https://metaheritage.it

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

MetaHeritage is a Milan-based Italian digital design studio that provides 3D scanning, 3D printing, Braille and tactile accessibility products, multimedia installations, and LIS videos to museums, archaeological sites, and cultural venues on a project-services basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Heritage Digital Services

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (541430)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Metaverse & Social Virtual Worlds (BPAMAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Diorama & Scenery Materials (Terrain, Foliage, Bases) (CRALAKAF)

Keywords

• 3D digitization services
• Multimedia museum installations
• Braille accessibility panels
• Tactile accessibility paths
• Cultural heritage preservation

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Digital Heritage Services: Project-based professional services for cultural heritage institutions including 3D digitization, multimedia installations, and accessibility solutions. Revenue is generated through custom project engagements rather than recurring subscriptions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

MetaHeritage is a Milan-based digital design studio that delivers accessibility-focused and multimedia digital services for cultural heritage institutions. Its core offerings include 2D and 3D digitization of artworks and sites, multimedia installations such as touch totems and immersive rooms, and inclusive accessibility deliverables including Braille panels (Pannellistica Braille), tactile paths (Percorsi Tattili), 3D-printed reproductions (Stampa 3D), LIS (Italian Sign Language) videos, and audioguides. The studio serves museums, archaeological sites, and cultural venues through project-based engagements carried out by an in-house team of archaeologists, 3D artists, and graphic designers.

Product overview

MetaHeritage is a digital design studio promoting Cultural Heritage through new technologies (Virtual Heritage). The company operates as a single integrated offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The product portfolio includes inclusivity products (Braille panels, tactile paths, 3D printing, LIS videos, audioguides), 2D/3D digitization services, and multimedia installations (touch totems, immersive rooms). These services work together to provide comprehensive cultural heritage accessibility and digital preservation solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• 2D and 3D Digitization (Digitalizzazione 2D/3D)

Quantifiable outcome

• 100,990,874 polygons elaborated and 50,250 development hours demonstrate substantial project capacity and experience

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Cuseum: Cuseum provides digital engagement and interactive technology solutions for museums and cultural institutions, comparable to MetaHeritage's multimedia installation offering.
• Second Canvas: Second Canvas produces ultra-high-resolution digital storytelling experiences for museums and cultural heritage institutions, very closely overlapping with MetaHeritage's multimedia installation and digital humanities offerings.
• ArcTron 3D: ArcTron 3D is a German 3D scanning and heritage digitization firm serving archaeological sites and museums — a near-direct competitor in the European cultural heritage digitization space.
• Acute Art: Acute Art builds VR and digital exhibitions for museums and cultural venues, competing with MetaHeritage for immersive installation budgets at heritage institutions.
• Histovery: Histovery delivers immersive, location-based augmented-reality museum experiences, directly competing for the same multimedia installation budgets at cultural heritage sites.

Broad incumbents

• Matterport: Matterport is a broad incumbent in 3D spatial capture and digital twins; while not heritage-specialized, it competes for institutional 3D scanning and virtualization budgets.
• Google Arts & Culture: Google Arts & Culture digitizes and presents cultural heritage globally with free tools that shape buyer expectations and create partial substitution risk for premium heritage services.

Emerging players

• TimeLooper: TimeLooper offers AR and immersive experiences for cultural sites and attractions, partially overlapping with MetaHeritage's immersive-room and interactive totem work.
• Smartify: Smartify delivers AR-based art and museum engagement experiences, addressing the same institutional need for inclusive, interactive visitor experiences that MetaHeritage targets.
• VNTANA: VNTANA provides 3D visualization, scanning and asset management for retail and brand applications, with adjacent capabilities that occasionally intersect heritage digitization projects.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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