A Cross‑Border Digital Journey Through Banat’s Heritage
The Banat Heritage Portal project (Interreg IPA Romania–Serbia, code RORS-00227) is a cross-border initiative aimed at protecting and promoting the cultural heritage of Banat through digitization and the creation of a shared database accessible to the public. The project is implemented by two institutional partners:
- The Hungarian Institute of Vojvodina (Zenta) – project leader
- The Museum of the Mountainous Banat in Reșița – Romanian partner
Within the project, the IT service provider is Qulto, which provides the digital infrastructure necessary for the collection, organization, and online publication of the digitized cultural heritage.
Banat is a region with a complex historical identity, divided today between Romania and Serbia. This administrative division has led to the dispersion of cultural heritage across different institutions, with varying resources and standards. The Banat Digital Heritage project aims to overcome these limitations through a shared platform where heritage is digitally brought together, regardless of borders. The developed database facilitates public access to information, images, documents, objects, and multimedia resources, serving as both a working tool for specialists and a means of cultural promotion for the general public.
The project includes activities such as digitizing museum collections, taking photographs and 3D scans, documenting historical sites, developing virtual tours, and integrating these materials into a unified digital platform.
For the Romanian side (the Banat Mountain Museum in Reșița), Qulto is the main technical partner, through:
- providing a customized solution for cataloging museum objects (the Qulto Muzee software)
- building a platform for publishing objects
- building a crowdsourcing application to collect information about museum objects from the public
- building a digital makerspace that includes solutions for creating storytelling content, tourist guides, thematic routes, and 3D virtual tours
- developing a VR application for the interactive visualization of 3D models scanned by the museum in Reșița
As part of this project, Qulto also organized a series of digitization workshops as well as a conference titled: “Cultural Heritage, Between Technology and Tourism – Best Practices and Successful Projects.” (October 2025)
On the Serbian side, Qulto contributed by building a digital makerspace that includes the same applications for creating similar content.
At the end of the project, the objects, documents, and photographs digitized in the two countries, as well as the digital content created through the Digital Makerspace, will be brought together on a shared platform.
