#  3D Historical Models 

 



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Google SketchUp was used to create a richly interactive and historically authentic 19th-century psychiatric asylum on Harvard's island in Second Life. 3D historical models of Colney Hatch and Bedlam hospitals were created. A Google Earth KMZ file was used for easy distribution and to provide supplementary information.

### Teaching Challenge:

The goal of the project was to help give students a far more visceral feel for the experience of mental illness and psychiatry in the 19th century than would otherwise be possible.

Sort### Faculty/Instructor(s):

Professor Anne Harrington



### Fellow(s):

Ron Brown, Ang Li, Ali Wright



### School, Library, Museum:

[Arts and Sciences](/school/arts-and-sciences)



### Project Deliverable:

3D historical models



### Tools and/or Technologies:

Google SketchUp, Google Earth, Second Life



### Course(s)/Discipline(s):

Historical Study A-87: Madness & Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry



### Year Created:

2009









 



 

 See also:- [ Arts and Sciences ](/affiliation/arts-and-sciences)
- [ 3D Models ](/project-tags/3d-models)
- [ Second Life ](/project-tags/second-life)
- [ Project ](/project-0)