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Progress and Lessons from the Digitisation of a Maritime Museum Fleet | Rampe & Moitino | CAAA2025

Establishing photogrammetry in practice at Auckland Museum Michael Rampe, Katherine Moitino Further to the paper presented at the Auckland international CAA conference titled “Towards digitising a fleet”, this paper will present an updated case study on the ongoing work and innovations in this area over the past 18 months. As high fidelity 3D digitisation in large state and national museums becomes more and more normalised, the uses and reasons for this activity are also becoming more appreciated and understood which in turn, drives further investment and uptake for this sector. The maritime museum sector has some unique challenges when dealing with management of some of their items. Firstly, they are very very large. The largest accessioned museum item in Australia right now is the HMAS Vampire which is docked in Darling Harbour, Sydney. Secondly, they are actively degrading by the way they are stored, usually floating in corrosive salt water and open to a variety of animals and plant life constantly attacking from below and the vicious cycles of the sun and weather attacking from above. The Australian National Maritime Museum in particular houses 53 historic vessels, 12 of which are floating. As part of the management of this fleet, a program of digitisation has been underway for the last few years and continuing opportunistically as access and need is available. This case study will explain and discuss the approach taken for a variety of vessels since the previous talk as well as talk through lessons learnt, new processes invented and horizon uses of the already legacy data including gaussian splatting. Presented on October 3 2025 as part of CAA Australasia Digital Archaeology Conference. You can become a member of CAA Australasia here: https://au.caa-international.org/subs... Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/caa-australa... Follow us on Facebook:   / caa.australasia   Follow us on LinkedIn:   / 12708537   #Archaeology #CAAA2025 #CAAAustralasia #DigitalArchaeology