The Renewed Existence in AR of Max Brückner’s Lost Paper Polyhedra

This study proposes the realization of an Augmented Reality museum of mathematical-physical mod-els for distinctly educational purposes and capable of explaining mathematical and geometric princi-ples. Augmented Reality, in this context, would render them accessible while interacting with their digital twins would not endanger the preservation of the originals, and furthermore, comprehension would be enhanced thanks to the inclusion of explanatory contents. Following the teaching course proposed from our experience, it is possible to build the replica of one’s paper mock-up, thus giving pedagogical value back to the mathematical models otherwise precluded when musealized in a show-case or, worse, safeguarded in storerooms due to limited exhibition space. The first trials concern Max Brückner’s collection of polyhedra models, published in 1900 in Vielecke und Vielflache: Theorie und Geschichte, which offers the opportunity to evaluate the potentials of Augmented Reality to renew existence to a collection that is now lost.