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# Museums & heritage: Guides and cases
Stories and guides for museums, archives and historical societies on digitizing fragile collections with minimal handling.
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## All museums & heritage insights
### [ Case study Workflow: How Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum preserves history while enhancing access See the 3-step scanning workflow Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum uses to create a preservation file and an accessible file of every historic document. November 25, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/cbmm-scanning-workflow)
### [ Case study Can a scanner support a whole community? How a museum helps Talbot Historical Society Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum lent its HD Apeiron/42 scanner to Talbot Historical Society to digitize large, fragile maps and documents. October 21, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/talbot-historical-society)
### [ Case study A museum’s dream: Preservation past physical life at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum digitizes 10,000+ fragile ship’s plans with the contact-free HD Apeiron/42, so originals are handled one last time. September 26, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/cbmm-heritage-preservation-case-study)
### [ News New contact-free large format art scanner delivers the market’s most lifelike results Launch news (June 2023): HD Apeiron/42, the Contex contact-free art scanner with FADGI 4-star quality, 1200 dpi, four lamp positions and 3D surface effect. June 28, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/hd-apeiron-42-launch)
### [ Case study How to speed up digital archiving at museums: Thunder Bay Museum Thunder Bay Museum replaced a photocopier with a Contex IQ FLEX flatbed scanner and has digitized 40,000 newspaper pages faster and in better quality. November 1, 2022](https://contex.com/insights/thunder-bay-museum-newspaper-archive)
### [ Case study Capturing Canada’s storied history: Fort St. John North Peace Museum Fort St. John North Peace Museum scans its 75-year newspaper archive on a Contex HD Ultra X, cutting retrieval from weeks to seconds and protecting it from ... April 14, 2021](https://contex.com/insights/fort-st-john-north-peace-museum)
### [ Case study Where the lines are drawn: Texas General Land Office The Texas General Land Office made its ScanLab 25% more efficient with a 60-inch Contex HD Ultra X, putting more of its 45,000 historic maps online. December 17, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/texas-general-land-office-maps)
### [ Case study College Park Aviation Museum preserves aviation history with Contex IQ FLEX The College Park Aviation Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, uses a Contex IQ FLEX flatbed scanner to preserve fragile photos, maps and documents since 1909. August 16, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/college-park-aviation-museum)
### [ Case study Texas A&M University-Central Texas builds an archive from the ground up Texas A&M University-Central Texas built a new archive with a Contex IQ Quattro and IQ FLEX, raising scanning productivity by 50%. June 13, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/texas-am-central-texas-archive)
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