VaseMuseum: Digital Intelligent Museum for Ancient Greek Pottery

1Beijing Jiaotong University   2Huazhong University of Science and Technology   3Peking University   4La Trobe University
*Equal contribution. Project lead. Corresponding author.

TL;DR: VaseMuseum is a digital museum powered by VaseAgent, combining multimodal perception, 3D reasoning, and knowledge retrieval to reduce hallucinations, deliver more reliable and trustworthy cultural heritage understanding.

Digital Exhibition

Athenian black-figure lekythos, c. 575–525 BCE, adorned with dogs and owls; National Museum, Copenhagen.

Squat Athenian red-figure lekythos, c. 425–375 BCE, depicting a woman and Eros; Cleveland Museum of Art.

Athenian red-figure cup by Epiktetos, c. 525–475 BCE, featuring symposium scene with reclining woman.

Athenian black-figure lekythos, c. 500–450 BCE, Beldam Workshop, ivy and berry motif, Nola provenance.
 

Athenian black-figure lekythos, c. 500–450 BCE, adorned with ivy leaf and berry motifs; National Museum, Warsaw.

Athenian black-figure Panathenaic amphora, c. 525–475 BCE, Athena and chariot motifs, attributed to Kleophrades Painter.

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Scale

Pedestal height

Display case rotation

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VaseMuseum

Overall Architecture of the VaseMuseum System
Overall Architecture of the VaseMuseum System

Workflow

Museum Workflow
Museum Workflow

VaseAgent

VaseAgent Framework
VaseAgent Framework

BibTeX

@article{zhang2025vasevqa,
  title={VaseVQA-3D: Benchmarking 3D VLMs on Ancient Greek Pottery},
  author={Zhang, Nonghai and Zhang, Zeyu and Wang, Jiazi and Zhao, Yang and Tang, Hao},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04479},
  year={2025}
}