RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A burglary at Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Curation Lab has left the university missing tens of thousands worth of electronics and precious artifacts.
According to the university, more than $20,000 worth of 3D printers and computers, as well as irreplaceable fossils and other artifacts, were stolen from the lab on the night of Oct. 8 or morning of Oct. 9.
“Part of what we do, and what a lot of other people do with 3D scanning, is not only to make all these things more accessible but to make sure they can survive beyond the loss of the actual object,” said Bernard K. Means, the lab’s director. “And in this case, we lost the actual object.”…