The Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab

There are about 250,000 artefacts in the ACMI Collection. We’ve been collecting film, videogames, artworks, home movies, stills and press kits – as well as a huge range of other paraphernalia – for over 75 years, ever since ACMI was conceived as a film lending and education organisation known as the State Film Centre. Inside the Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab, our staff and collaborators are digitising our film and time-based media collections, assessing physical artefacts from our videogame collection and film donations, as well as conducting hours of quality assessment work on our born-digital works to make the collection accessible onsite and online.

The Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab is a first of its kind facility dedicated to preserving Australia’s analogue past while ensuring its digital present is accessible for generations to come.

You can see staff at work inside the Lab through the windows in ACMI's Fed Square foyer. Plan your visit: https://www.acmi.net.au/plan-your-visit/

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