PROCEEDINGS of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics 9 to 13 September 2019 in Aachen, Germany Digitization of cultural heritage of the UNESCO site - Lipnica Murowana Pawel MALECKI 1 ; Jerzy WICIAK 1 ; Katarzyna SOCHACZEWSKA 1 Natalia KRYGOWSKA 2 1 AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (pawel.malecki@agh.edu.pl) 2 Jagiellonian University, Poland ABSTRACT Lipnica Murowana is a unique, although a small town in the center of the Małopolska Region. It is known of the 15 th century St. Leonard wooden church that was entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003. The article shows the activities of THE MULTISENSORY UNESCO project that was aimed at digitalizing and sharing the cultural and national heritage of Lipnica Murowana. The paper focuses on acoustical layer digitalization. It shows soundscape analysis and recording and the acoustics of the St. Leonard church and other interesting historical monuments. Keywords: soundscape, ambisonics, wooden church, UNESCO 1. INTRODUCTION In our life, not only do we seek a sense of security, but also a sense of belonging, which enables us to understand both our own selves and the surrounding reality. This is possible if we reach to the past, which surrounds us everywhere. It manifests itself not only through material objects, but also through stories, memories, everyday life routines, rituals related to some events. Buildings are durable traces of the past, while immaterial resources constitute the binder that fills whole narrative with a content and anchors it in the present. The sound is not a dominant sense in human perception. Nevertheless, it takes special role in art and human esthetics. It is inseparable element of any landscapes or environment and the acoustic response characterizes any buildings or interiors. As a part of the THE MULTISENSORY UNESCO project (1), the employees of the Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics at AGH UST in Krakow have registered, recorded and analyzed soundscape of Lipnica Murowana together with acoustic measurements in Lipnica’s Churches. 2. THE MULTISENSORY UNESCO Acoustical research and activities shown in current paper were part of complex project THE MULTISENSORY UNESCO (1), that was realized by Pełni Kultury foundation (2) in 2017. Within the project, among others St. Leonard’s church from the UNESCO site was fully digitalized (Figure 1). In 2003, the wooden churches in southern Małopolska were entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The church of St. Leonard in Lipnica Murowana is among these six sites. The justification says that they constitute a unique example of different aspects of the medieval church construction traditions in the Roman-Catholic culture. St. Leonard’s church in Lipnica Murowana is one of the historical monuments included in the Wooden Architecture Route in Małopolska which connects over 250 sites. Also, the St. Andrew’s church and St. Simon’s church located in Lipnica were digitalized as well. St. Andrew’s church in Lipnica is over 650 years old and was erected by a decree of King Casimir III the Great in 1363. The contemporary appearance of the church is the result of multiple actions concerning its reconstruction. St. Szymon’s church stands on the site of his former family house. It was built in 1636 thanks to the efforts of Stanisław Lubomirski, according to the order of King Władysław IV. The church was rebuilt in the 1960s. The pipe organ inside comes from the 19th century. 6757