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Fives, over 200 years of industrial revolutions
Carla, Ana Margarida, restauratrices en chef de l’Université, Paloma directrice pédagogique, et les étudiantes Justine, Prunelle et Andréa du CFA de MEMORIST Fives, formerly the Compagnie de Fives-Lille, is an international industrial engineering group operating in...
MEMORIST Digitises the Mosan Medieval Heritage Collection
MEMORIST Digitises the Mosan Medieval Heritage CollectionIt’s no longer the Middle Ages! As part of a project led by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (CFWB), the Mosan medieval heritage centre (Maison du Patrimoine médiéval mosan) has embarked on a campaign,...
MEMORIST CFA restoration apprentices in Coimbra
MEMORIST CFA restoration apprentices in CoimbraFor ten days, the students of the MEMORIST paper restoration business unit took over the conservation studio of the arts faculty library at the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, in Portugal. Their assignment...
Paper Conservation and Bookbinding Training in Nairobi, Kenya
Paper conservation and bookbinding trainingAfter South Africa, MEMORIST is bringing its expertise in conservation and bookbinding training to Kenya, Nairobi. This training is brought to you by MEMORIST and the Council for Literacy Development (CLD), a Kenyan...
Notre-Dame 3D Scanning & Post-Fire Reconstruction
Notre-Dame 3D Scanning & Post-Fire ReconstructionEmergency 3D scanning operationFIRST STAGE OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONFollowing the 2019 fires, the MEMORIST team, in collaboration with the company FARO, carried out an emergency operation to safeguard Notre-Dame on the...
Mont-Saint-Michel 3D Survey & Heritage Reconstruction | Memorist
3D survey of the Mont saint-Michel Abbey and Merveille buildingA COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT TO PRESERVE AND RESTOREThe prestigious Mont-Saint-Michel complex is highly vulnerable to the elements, which makes its conservation of the utmost importance. To carry out...
Baron de Salis Illustrated Parchments Restoration
Illustrated parchments in the collection of Baron Louis-Numa de SalisThe Metz municipal archives (France) have once again placed their trust in us, entrusting MEMORIST with a series of vibrantly coloured parchments. These documents originate from the collection of...
Exploring Étampes: MEMORIST’s New Augmented Reality Heritage App
The Communauté d’Agglomération de l’Étampois Sud-Essonne intercommunal structure in France wanted to develop a mobile app for cultural outreach aimed at the public. The project is part of a drive to enhance the local area’s appeal by making its rich historical,...
3D Surveying the Bernifal Cave: MEMORIST’s Digital Heritage Journey
MEMORIST takes you on a journey of discovery through prehistoryWe have another digital cave survey to add to the MEMORIST portfolio! In October 2025, our team travelled six kilometres from the town of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac to a location deep in the forest in the commune...
Celebrating 175 years of tradition and modernity in Plan-les-Ouates
To celebrate its 175th anniversary, the municipality of Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva, Switzerland) wanted to create an immersive digital experience that would enable residents to rediscover the history of their town. MEMORIST supported the municipality in setting up this...
Video games have their own (virtual) museum too
Yes, video games are part of our shared history! And as such, the video game industry deserves a museum of its own to preserve and document its history, a source of creativity and innovation. So that everyone can benefit from this knowledge, the International Computer...
Maison d’Érasme shines a light on its censored texts
MEMORIST just completed a new project in Belgium at the Maison d’Érasme museum in Anderlecht. This commission is unique in a number of ways: First, due to the specialised processing of the collections (object-mode digitisation followed by page-by-page digitisation...











