Keep a way back into the space.

Digital documentation for exhibitions, installations, and culturally significant spaces. Record the relationships between rooms, artworks, and the place around them, while the experience is still there to capture.

The Wo/Manhouse 2022 exhibition house in Belen, New Mexico
Wo/Manhouse 2022, Belen · Lumerse Studio

Digital Preservation & Exhibition Archives

An archive of a place and its context

Temporary exhibitions and installations change or disappear. A navigable spatial record gives future visitors a way to revisit the setting, move between viewpoints, and understand the relationships that individual photographs can leave out. We plan the documentation around the space, the work, and the people responsible for it.

Plan what needs to be preserved

Discuss the rooms, installation details, grounds, interpretive material, and views that matter to your archive. Panoramic photography and 3D capture serve different needs and can be combined where appropriate. Lighting, public access, fragile work, installation schedules, and any restrictions shape the capture plan.

Make the record useful to future visitors

An interactive web archive can connect spatial views with agreed labels, artwork information, images, or supporting media. We confirm the material you supply, credits, permissions, annotations, and navigation before assembly. The intended audience may be the public, a research team, or an institution with its own access requirements.

Agree on delivery and stewardship

A public experience and an institutional archive need a clear delivery plan. We discuss the agreed source or export files, ownership and reuse requirements, hosting term, backups, and future maintenance in the proposal. Long-term hosting is available as a scoped service; continued access is planned with the institution.

Wo/Manhouse 2022, Belen

The 54-scene virtual exhibition brings together installations, rooms, grounds, performances, and media. Visit the project for the archive and the original exhibition history and tour credits.

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Bring the brief.

  • Exhibition, installation, or heritage space and its location
  • Closing date, access arrangements, and preservation priorities
  • Credits, rights, interpretation, and supporting materials
  • Public or restricted audience, files, hosting, and stewardship needs
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Questions about culture & heritage capture

Can a temporary exhibition be documented before it closes?

Yes, subject to availability and access. Contact us early with installation and closing dates, the areas to record, and any restrictions around artists, visitors, or the work.

What is included in an exhibition archive?

The proposal sets out the capture method, coverage, navigation, supplied annotations and media, review process, delivery formats, and hosting. Cultural and exhibition archive services currently start at $3,500; each commission is scoped to the work.

Where does Lumerse work?

Our studio is in Albuquerque. We plan capture projects in Santa Fe, Belen, and elsewhere in New Mexico, with Southwest travel quoted to the project.

Start with what you need to share.

Tell us about the space, the people who need to see it, and the schedule. We’ll scope the capture and delivery around your project.

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