Cultural heritage preservation scanner: Minimizing document handling

Curators at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum can rest assured that their originals are handled for the last time when they digitize their fragile archive with their HD Apeiron/42 contact-free scanner.

“There is no risk of potential damage to the originals, so that has been one of the biggest key features of this scanner,” says Gabriella Cantelmo, Assistant Curator at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) a month after investing in their HD Apeiron/42 contact-free scanner. The museum covers the largest bay in USA, located on the East Coast.

CBMM has a very large collection of ship’s plans, and they hope to complete one-third of the scanning of the 10,000 original plans within a year.