National Museum of African American History & Culture - Audiovisual Digitization Event

National Museum of African American History & Culture - Audiovisual Digitization Event

The Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History will be in St. Louis for our 2024 Community Curation Program! During the month of September we will be working with great community partners in St. Louis and East St. Louis, developing engaging programming, and digitizing materials for local institutions, organizations, and community members.

Bring your most treasured home movies, home videos, and audio tapes to have them digitized by Smithsonian conservation staff members. Media digitization will convert your precious memories into digital files you can watch on your computer and share on social media.

Over the course of 1 week, Smithsonian staff members will convert 5 items of your choosing before returning the originals to you along with a custom NMAAHC thumb drive with the digital files.

Due to the time constraints associated with media digitization Smithsonian staff are only able to handle 5 items per family. You are welcome to bring more to your drop off appointment and staff members can help recommend which items you may want to prioritize.

Smithsonian media conservation staff can handle a wide range of media formats, for example:

  • Motion picture film: 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm
  • Video: VHS, BetaMax, Hi-8, MiniDV
  • Audio: Audio Cassettes, ¼ inch reel-to-reel, DAT
  • Plus, many others!

 

You must sign up for a timeslot using this link: https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1045600/audiovisual-digitization-stlouis-community-curation

The Smithsonian media conservation staff does not digitize photos, documents, or 3D objects.